Ready to serve - trained efficient workers--Household Service Demonstration Project W – 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 vintage poster of Ready to serve - trained efficient workers--Household Service Demonstration Project W brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ready to serve - trained efficient workers--Household Service Demonstration Project W
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Ready to serve" is the slogan on this 1939 silkscreen, which promoted the Household Service Demonstration Project in Illinois. The Work Projects Administration's Federal Art Project sponsored posters like this one to publicize training and job programs during the Depression, when many women needed paid work and many households needed reliable help. Silkscreen allowed artists to print bold, flat color in multiple copies, and the poster's promise of "trained, efficient workers" shows how the program hoped to bring more skill and standing to domestic labor.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Servants--Illinois--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 986 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 693_Ready_to_serve_trained_1939 |
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