Jobs - get the facts about occupations - free classes for young men and women 16 to 2 – 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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A window into the past: Jobs - get the facts about occupations - free classes for young men and women 16 to 2, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Aimed at young people in Illinois, this 1941 poster offers free classes for men and women aged 16 and up, and it promises facts about different occupations to help them choose a path. The National Youth Administration, a New Deal agency created in 1935, ran programs to keep young people in school and prepare them for jobs during the Depression, and this silkscreen print was produced under the Federal Art Project to publicize that work. Its plain, direct message about training and career information reflects how public agencies of the period used poster art to reach working-age citizens.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | United States. National Youth Administration--Public relations. Young adults--Illinois--1940-1950. Occupations--Illinois--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,775 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 756_Jobs_get_the_facts_abo_1941 |
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