Little Miss Muffet ... reading a picture book ... / Gregg. – Antique Poster Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This vintage poster of Little Miss Muffet ... reading a picture book ... / Gregg. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Little Miss Muffet ... reading a picture book ... / Gregg.
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Few posters here pair a nursery rhyme with a reading lesson, and this one shows Little Miss Muffet, the rhyme's frightened girl, absorbed in a picture book rather than fleeing the spider. The silkscreen dates to 1936 and was made under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program that employed artists during the Depression. Its subject tags place the scene in Illinois, and the message is plain: a book could turn a moment of fear into pleasure. A date stamp on the back, March 27, 1940, shows the sheet was handled years after it was printed.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 160 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Children--Illinois--1930-1940. Reading--Illinois--1930-1940. Nursery rhymes--1930-1940. Spiders--Illinois--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,537 × 2,217 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 346_Little_Miss_Muffet_rea_1936 |
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