Protect your hands! You work with them. – 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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Protect your hands! You work with them. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Protect your hands! You work with them.
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The message is blunt: protect your hands, because you work with them. The poster dates to 1936 and was made under the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, whose artists produced silkscreen posters with bold color and simple images meant to reach workers who would not read a long safety manual. Hand injuries were a common and costly part of factory, construction and other manual labor in the 1930s, and the poster ties protection directly to a worker's livelihood. The date stamped on the back, October 31, 1936, places it during the program's busiest years.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Oct 31 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 213 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Safety--1930-1940. Hands--1930-1940. Laborers--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,234 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 636_Protect_your_hands_You_1936 |
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