C.E. Reynolds Mystery of broadwalk asylum – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of C.E. Reynolds Mystery of broadwalk asylum. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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C.E. Reynolds Mystery of broadwalk asylum
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C.E. Reynolds's *Mystery of Broadwalk Asylum* is a 1936 silkscreen poster from the Federal theater Project in Los Angeles, a unit of the Works Progress Administration that employed theater workers during the Depression and staged low-cost productions for local audiences. WPA poster artists used silkscreen's flat, bold areas of color, which could be printed cheaply in quantity and posted on storefronts and public walls. Today the poster is valued both as a piece of 1930s graphic design and as a record of the city's theater life in that period.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,711 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 858_CE_Reynolds_Mystery_of_1936 |
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