Senior amateur musical contest On the mall Central Park / AD(?) [monogram] – Vintage Poster
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(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 Senior amateur musical contest On the mall Central Park / AD(?) [monogram]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Senior amateur musical contest On the mall Central Park / AD(?) [monogram]
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Older amateur musicians were the focus of this WPA-era poster, which promotes a senior amateur musical contest on the Mall in Central Park. The New York City Department of Parks sponsored the event, and the poster was printed in silkscreen, a method the Federal Art Project used widely for public notices in the mid-1930s. A monogram that may read "AD" appears in the design, and a date stamped on the back, October 20, 1936, places the poster in the fall of that year.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Oct 20 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Parks sponsor. |
| Subjects | Music--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Contests--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,761 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 473_Senior_amateur_musical_1936 |
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