Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday, Saturday, Sunday – Vintage Wall Art
![Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, [Illinois] : Federal Art Project, [1936] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/97/97d5eed49819-L.webp)
(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 Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, 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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Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday, Saturday, Sunday
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Few posters from the period put free admission so plainly up front, promising visitors to Brookfield Zoo entry without charge on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The zoo opened in 1934 in Brookfield, a Chicago suburb, and the polar bear subject points to one of its best-known animals. The poster is a color silkscreen made under the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, which employed artists during the Depression to produce public notices and advertisements. A date written on the back, October 13, 1936, suggests when it was in circulation.
| Created / published | [Illinois] : Federal Art Project, [1936] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1930-1940.Advertisements 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Hand-written on verso: 10/13/36. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) Designed by Carken. |
| Subjects | Zoos--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Polar bears--Illinois--1930-1940. Brookfield Zoo (Ill.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,188 × 1,492 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218089 |
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