Ah Wilderness! Federal Theatre Playhouse Tulane & Miro Streets – Vintage Poster
(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 rare vintage poster captures Ah Wilderness! Federal Theatre Playhouse Tulane & Miro Streets in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ah Wilderness! Federal Theatre Playhouse Tulane & Miro Streets
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The poster promotes the Federal theater Project's staging of Eugene O'Neill's *Ah, Wilderness!* at the Playhouse on Tulane and Miro Streets. O'Neill's 1933 comedy looks back warmly at a small-town family's Fourth of July in 1906. The Federal theater Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, employed actors, designers and stagehands during the Depression, and its posters were often made by artists working for the program. This silkscreen print from 1936 uses bold flat color to draw attention to the production. It is a useful reminder that the nostalgia of O'Neill's play was staged during an economic crisis that put many theater workers out of work.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,776 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 854_Ah_Wilderness_Federal_T_1936 |
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