Know your city / City planning & housing exhibition (S) Sioux City Art Center October – Vintage Poster
(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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A window into the past: Know your city / City planning & housing exhibition (S) Sioux City Art Center October, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Know your city / City planning & housing exhibition (S) Sioux City Art Center October
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Few posters in the WPA collection tie planning and housing to a single regional venue the way this one does. It advertised a city planning and housing exhibition at the Sioux City Art Center in Iowa in October 1936, presented under the Federal Art Project. During the New Deal, many cities were grappling with overcrowded neighborhoods and substandard housing, and exhibitions like this one aimed to show residents how their communities might be rebuilt. The poster was printed by silkscreen, a method the Federal Art Project's poster workshops used to produce bold, flat color at low cost.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Oct 29 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Sioux City Art Center--Exhibitions & displays--1930-1940. Exhibitions--Iowa--Sioux City--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,816 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 574_Know_your_city_City_p_1936 |
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