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The United States' first foreign trade zone, Staten Island, city of New York, opened February 1, 1937 / Herzog. – Antique Wall Art

The United States' first foreign trade zone, Staten Island, city of New York, opened February 1, 1937 / Herzog., NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [1937] — vintage poster
The United States' first foreign trade zone, Staten Island, city of New York, opened February 1, 1937 / Herzog., NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [1937]. Vintage poster from the Ellis Island collection.

(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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Rather than showing a single ship or skyline, this silkscreen announces a piece of trade policy: the opening, on February 1, 1937, of the first foreign trade zone in the United States, on Staten Island. Under the Foreign Trade Zones Act of 1934, goods landed inside such a zone could be stored and processed without paying import duty until they entered American commerce. Credited to an artist named Herzog and produced by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, the poster pairs shipping with smokestacks to suggest the port activity the zone was meant to draw.

Created / publishedNYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [1937]
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
GenrePosters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940.
NotesDate stamped on verso: Jan 6 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 191
SubjectsShipping--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Smokestacks--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan946 × 1,220 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218898

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