This calendar, created and executed by The Poster Division of the New York Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, comes to you with the New Year's greetings from the Project – Vintage Poster
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(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: This calendar, created and executed by The Poster Division of the New York Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, comes to you with the New Year's greetings from the Project, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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This calendar, created and executed by The Poster Division of the New York Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, comes to you with the New Year's greetings from the Project
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Built as a New Year's greeting from the New York Federal Art Project, this 1938 calendar is less a timekeeping tool than a piece of the agency's self-presentation. Its caption names the project's leadership: Holger Cahill as national director, Audrey McMahon as regional director, and Richard Floethe, who headed the poster division, along with Col. Frank C. Harrington, administrator of the Works Progress Administration. The Federal Art Project, part of the WPA, employed artists during the Depression, and its poster division turned out designs for public health, transportation, theater, and other public causes. Looking at the calendar, you can see how the project used commercial-style printmaking to bring modern graphic design to ordinary households.
| Created / published | [1938] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Calendars 1930-1940.Prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Included on the caption are the names of the national and regional directors of the Federal Art Project, Holger Cahill and Audrey McMahon, respectively, the head of the poster division, Richard Floethe, as well as the administrator of the Works Progress Administration, Col. Frank C. Harrington. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,771 × 4,687 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221176 |
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