The vacation reading club - join now at your public library – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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This rare vintage poster captures The vacation reading club - join now at your public library in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The vacation reading club - join now at your public library
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The particular thing about this poster is its message: it is a summer recruitment notice for a vacation reading club run through a public library, aimed at getting people, especially children, to keep reading while school was out. Its subject tags place it in Iowa during the 1930s, and it was produced under the Federal Art Project, one of the arts units of the Works Progress Administration, which hired artists to make posters for public agencies and community programs. Silkscreen was a method the WPA poster units used because it allowed bold flat color and cheap runs of many copies. The record gives a date of 1936 for the design, while a stamp on the back reads May 25, 1939, which suggests it was still being circulated or filed years later.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: May 25 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 198 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Reading--Iowa--1930-1940. Book clubs--Iowa--1930-1940. Libraries--Iowa--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 985 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 265_The_vacation_reading_cl_1936 |
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