Protect your parks – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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: Protect your parks, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A 1938 silkscreen poster urging Ohioans to guard their state parks and the trees within them, the piece is a clear example of how conservation messages reached the public during the Depression. The Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project produced many such posters, using the inexpensive silkscreen process to print bold, simple designs in large runs for schools, post offices, and public buildings. The poster was made by Morris Katz, and its date stamp of July 20, 1938, places it in the middle of the decade's push to preserve forests and parkland that New Deal programs were also helping to build and maintain.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Katz Morris artist. |
| Subjects | Trees--Ohio--1930-1940. State parks & reserves--Ohio--1930-1940. Conservation of natural resources--Ohio--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,655 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 454_Protect_your_parks_1938 |
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