WPA Federal Music Project will present 8 roof garden concerts at Jamaica YMCA Free to – 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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Eight free concerts on a rooftop garden at the Jamaica YMCA in Queens make this poster a small record of the Federal Music Project's reach beyond Manhattan. The Project, part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal One program, put unemployed musicians back to work during the Depression and brought live performances to parks, schools, and community centers at little or no cost to audiences. The poster was printed in silkscreen, a method the WPA poster division favored because it was inexpensive to produce in quantity and allowed flat, bold color that could be read from across a street.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Concerts--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,729 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 444_WPA_Federal_Music_Proje_1936 |
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