Wild birds – 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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A window into the past: Wild birds, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The poster advertises a Los Angeles production of *Wild Birds*, a play by Dan Totheroh, whose name appears in the record. The Federal theater Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration that put unemployed actors, designers, and stagehands back to work, sponsored the show. Its posters were made with silkscreen, a stencil process that let artists print bold, flat areas of color cheaply in large runs. The record's subject headings, which include youth and mental states, point to the play's concern with troubled young people, a theme that drew attention during the Depression years.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Totheroh Dan. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1950. Youth--1930-1950. Mental states--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,715 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 726_Wild_birds_1936 |
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