Sewing – 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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Sewing in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A silkscreen poster from 1937 that turns the sewing trade into its own subject, with the Cincinnati setting named right in the record. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, commissioned work like this during the Great Depression, when federal programs employed artists to produce posters that publicized community services and workplaces. The verso date stamp of June 20, 1937, places the piece in the middle of that program's most active years of poster production. Its subject, labor in a garment-related trade, reflects how the WPA poster series documented ordinary occupations across American cities.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 20 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Occupations--1930-1940. Sewing--Ohio--Cincinnati--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,748 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 754_Sewing_1937 |
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