A road to future success - learning Free (S) Enroll - Federal adult schools (S) Many cour – 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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A window into the past: A road to future success - learning Free (S) Enroll - Federal adult schools (S) Many cour, preserved in this vintage poster. 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 road to future success - learning Free (S) Enroll - Federal adult schools (S) Many cour
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Few posters from the Depression era made the case for schooling as plainly as this 1938 silkscreen, which urges adults to "learn free" at federal adult schools in Columbus, Ohio. Its road-as-metaphor framing, with success waiting at the end of a course, reflects the Works Progress Administration's adult education programs, which offered free classes in reading, writing, and job skills to people whose schooling had been interrupted by hard times. The Federal Art Project produced posters like this one, and the silkscreen process let designers print bold, flat color in multiples at low cost. Note the stamped date on the back, which places the work in the spring of 1938.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 27 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Adult education--Ohio--Columbus--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 997 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 26_A_road_to_future_succes_1938 |
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