Pennsylvania – Vintage Poster 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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Step back in time with Pennsylvania, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few posters on this board tie a state's tourism pitch so directly to the Pennsylvania Dutch community, and this 1936 design centers on families connected to that heritage. Produced under the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, it reflects a New Deal effort to employ artists while encouraging travel within the state during the Depression. The color woodcut technique, with its flat blocks of color and bold outlines, gave many WPA posters a folk-art quality that suited regional subjects like this one. The poster shows how Pennsylvania presented its rural traditions and family life to visitors in the 1930s.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : woodcut color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 304 (another version) · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Tourism--Pennsylvania--1930-1950. Families--Pennsylvania--1930-1950. Pennsylvania Dutch--1930-1950. Pennsylvania--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,763 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 585_Pennsylvania_1936 |
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