Pennsylvania Costumes and handicrafts the Pennsylvania Germans / Katherine Milhous. – 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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Pennsylvania Costumes and handicrafts the Pennsylvania Germans / Katherine Milhous. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Katherine Milhous drew this 1936 color lithograph for the Works Progress Administration, and it turns to the Pennsylvania German communities of the state for its subject. It pairs traditional costume and handicrafts with fraktur, the decorated manuscripts that families used for birth and baptismal records. Milhous, a Pennsylvania illustrator, later returned to the same culture in her children's book *The Egg Tree*. The print is signed in pencil by the artist and marked No. 25, which suggests it was one of a numbered set issued under the federal arts program.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 25. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Pennsylvania Dutch--1930-1950. Tourism--Pennsylvania--1930-1950. Handicrafts--Pennsylvania--1930-1950. Frakturs (Illumination)--1930-1950. Pennsylvania--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,903 × 4,096 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 617_Pennsylvania_Costumes_a_1936 |
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