Attention boys and girls - $250.00 in prizes - miniature home building contest ... – Antique Poster Print
(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 Attention boys and girls - $250.00 in prizes - miniature home building contest .... An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Children are the audience of this 1936 silkscreen poster, which promises $250 in prizes for building miniature houses in Iowa. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, sponsored it, and the design reflects the program's wider use of posters to announce public events and community activities during the Depression. Silkscreen was a relatively inexpensive method that allowed artists to produce bold, flat color in multiple copies. The later date stamped on the back shows the sheet was still being filed and handled years after the contest was announced.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: May 3 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Contests--Iowa--1930-1940. Building models--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,798 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 286_Attention_boys_and_girl_1936 |
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