Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory U.S. Employment Service survey conducted hou – Antique Poster Print
(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 Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory U.S. Employment Service survey conducted hou, 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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This silkscreen poster from 1941 urges Michigan residents to take part in a U.S. Employment Service survey of farm and factory labor, a count of who was available to work and where help was needed. Its title, "Mobilizing Michigan," ties the survey to the national effort to prepare for war production before the United States entered the conflict in December 1941. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, produced posters like this one to inform the public about federal programs, and silkscreen allowed the designers to print bold, flat areas of color cheaply in quantity. A January 1943 date stamp on the front shows the poster was still in circulation well after the survey.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 189 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Michigan. Employment--Michigan--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,162 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 552_Mobilizing_Michigan_for_1941 |
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