Federal Theatre Project presents Festival of American dance featuring An American exo – 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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Step back in time with Federal Theatre Project presents Festival of American dance featuring An American exo, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Federal Theatre Project presents Festival of American dance featuring An American exo
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A 1938 silkscreen poster announces a Festival of American Dance in Los Angeles, staged under the Federal theater Project and featuring a work titled *An American Exodus*. The Federal theater Project was one of the arts programs of the Works Progress Administration, created to put theater workers, dancers and designers back on payroll during the Depression. Its poster division produced bold, flat-color silkscreen work like this one to advertise productions in cities across the country. Congress ended the project in 1939, so posters from its brief run are now among the clearest surviving records of its regional activity.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| 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--1930-1940. Dance--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,775 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 490_Federal_Theatre_Project_1938 |
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