Federal Theatre presents George Bernard Shaws Androcles and the lion A Negro producti – 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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Step back in time with Federal Theatre presents George Bernard Shaws Androcles and the lion A Negro producti, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Federal Theatre presents George Bernard Shaws Androcles and the lion A Negro producti
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Few theater posters of the period pair a Shaw title with a lion quite like this one, which advertises a Negro theater Project production of George Bernard Shaw's comedy *Androcles and the Lion*. The Federal theater Project was part of the Works Progress Administration, created in 1935 to put out-of-work theater people back to work during the Depression, and its New York Negro theater Project staged classic plays with Black casts for audiences the commercial stage had largely overlooked. The silkscreen print comes from the WPA's Federal Art Project poster division, and its flat color and bold lettering show the graphic style of the program's advertising. A June 1939 date stamp on the back suggests the sheet was handled and filed years after it was printed.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 290 · Shaw Bernard 1856-1950. Negro Theatre Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Lions--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 981 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 714_Federal_Theatre_present_1936 |
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