Visit the zoo – Antique Wall Art
![Visit the zoo, Pennsylvania : WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/84c8d08bf1e1-L.webp)
(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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Visit the zoo comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Elephants take center stage in this color woodcut, a poster urging Pennsylvanians to visit the zoo. Hugh Stevenson of Philadelphia designed it for the state's WPA Federal Art Project around 1936 or 1937, and a date stamp on the back reads August 4, 1937. Like many Depression-era WPA posters, it promoted a public amenity, and its bold blocks of color show why woodcut suited inexpensive, eye-catching notices. Philadelphia's zoo, founded in 1874, was among the first in the nation.
| Created / published | Pennsylvania : WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1930-1940.Woodcuts Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Aug 4 1937. Poster designed by Hugh Stevenson, Philadelphia. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 165 |
| Subjects | Elephants--1930-1940. Zoos--Pennsylvania--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,187 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173460 |
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