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More courtesy – Vintage Poster

More courtesy, 1936 — vintage poster
More courtesy, 1936. Vintage poster from the WPA Posters collection.

(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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More courtesy" turns a plain request for better manners into a public message about how people treat one another on the job. The Federal theater Project in New York sponsored the 1936 poster, with Charlotte Barrows Chorpenning credited as sponsor, and it was printed in silkscreen, a method the Works Progress Administration's poster units used to produce inexpensive, bold images for wide display. It belongs to a larger body of New Deal publicity that addressed workers directly during the Depression, when keeping a job often depended as much on getting along with coworkers as on skill.

Created / published1936
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color.
NotesWork Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Chorpenning Charlotte B. (Charlotte Barrows) Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor.
SubjectsInterpersonal relations--1930-1950. Quarreling--1930-1950. Employees--1930-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection
Original scan2,764 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference544_More_courtesy_1936

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