Printing – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Printing in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Its title names a working trade, not a play or company, and the record ties it to the New York unit of the Federal theater Project, a theater arm of the Works Progress Administration. Those WPA poster units, created under the New Deal's relief programs, used silkscreen to produce bold, inexpensive color posters in quantity. The record also names Charlotte Barrows Chorpenning in connection with the work. Posters like this one show how federal art projects turned everyday labor into public imagery during the Depression.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Chorpenning Charlotte B. (Charlotte Barrows) Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Printing industry--1930-1950. Occupations--1930-1950. Employment--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,205 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 550_Printing_1936 |
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