See America Visit the national parks. – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of See America Visit the national parks.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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See America Visit the national parks.
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Few posters in the WPA collection sell the outdoors as directly as this 1936 silkscreen, which pairs a cascading waterfall with a plain call to visit the national parks. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, produced images like this to encourage Americans to travel within their own country during the Depression, when long trips were out of reach for many. Silkscreen let artists lay down bold, flat fields of color, so the design reads quickly from across a room or a roadside. A date stamp on the back, July 1940, records when the board was filed, years after printing.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jul 22 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 137 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | National parks & reserves--1930-1940. Waterfalls--1930-1940. Tourism--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 3,450 × 5,000 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 746_See_America_Visit_the_n_1936 |
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