Class of 29 Where do they go from here? – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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Class of 29 Where do they go from here? comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Federal theater Project production in Los Angeles is the subject here, and its title, "Class of '29," asks a question that 1936 audiences would have understood at once: where do the graduates of 1929 go from here? Those students finished school just as the stock market crashed that October, so the question carried the weight of a generation shut out of work. The Federal theater Project was one of the New Deal arts programs under the Works Progress Administration, which employed out-of-work actors, writers and designers. Its posters, printed in silkscreen color, were meant to draw crowds to plays that dealt directly with the hard times of the decade.
| 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--1930-1940. Economic & social conditions--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 517_Class_of_29_Where_do_th_1936 |
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