W.P.A. Federal Theatre presents Native ground by Virgil Geddes / DeColas. – 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: W.P.A. Federal Theatre presents Native ground by Virgil Geddes / DeColas., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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W.P.A. Federal Theatre presents Native ground by Virgil Geddes / DeColas.
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This poster advertises *Native Ground*, a play by Virgil Geddes staged under the Federal theater Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration that put unemployed theater workers to work during the Depression. Its subject headings point to farming and plows, which suggests the play's rural themes shaped the design. The silkscreen process was a practical choice for WPA poster shops, which could produce bold, flat color in quantity on a tight budget. A date stamp on the back, Jan. 5, 1939, shows the sheet was still in circulation after its 1936 production.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 89 · Geddes Virgil 1897- Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Farming--1930-1940. Plows--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,677 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 588_WPA_Federal_Theatre_pre_1936 |
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