Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday Saturday Sunday – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday Saturday Sunday. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few Depression-era posters announce admission as plainly as this 1936 silkscreen, which invites visitors to Brookfield Zoo on its free days: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. The Works Progress Administration's poster program hired artists to make inexpensive color prints for public agencies and events, and this design is credited to Carken, with the Federal Writers Project listed as sponsor. Brookfield Zoo, on the western edge of Chicago, had opened only a couple of years earlier, and the polar bears named in its subject tags hint at the animals that drew crowds to its grounds.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Hand-written on verso: 10/13/36. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) Designed by Carken. · Federal Writers Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Zoos--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Polar bears--Illinois--1930-1940. Brookfield Zoo (Ill.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,768 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 35_Visit_the_Brookfield_Zo_1936 |
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