Los Angeles Federal Music Project presents The chocolate soldier – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Los Angeles Federal Music Project presents The chocolate soldier. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Los Angeles Federal Music Project presents The chocolate soldier
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Staged in Santa Ana and promoted under the Los Angeles Federal Music Project, this 1936 silkscreen poster advertises *The Chocolate Soldier*, with the Orange County Drum & Bugle Corps as sponsor. The operetta by Oscar Straus premiered in Vienna in 1908 as *Der tapfere Soldat*, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's satire *Arms and the Man*. The Federal Music Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, employed out-of-work musicians and brought operettas and operas to communities beyond the big cities, and posters like this one told local audiences what was coming. Worth noticing is the flat, bold color typical of silkscreen, a method the WPA poster units used to make inexpensive, eye-catching runs.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Sponsored by Orange County Drum & Bugle Corps. · Straus Oscar 1870-1954. Tapfere Soldat.Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Operas & operettas--California--Santa Ana--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,741 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 772_Los_Angeles_Federal_Mus_1936 |
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