Wanted! 10000 guest homes 1000 furnished houses for Worlds Fair visitors by March 15 – 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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This rare vintage poster captures Wanted! 10000 guest homes 1000 furnished houses for Worlds Fair visitors by March 15 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Wanted! 10000 guest homes 1000 furnished houses for Worlds Fair visitors by March 15
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Few posters of the 1939 New York World's Fair ask the public for beds instead of tickets. This silkscreen print, produced under the WPA Federal Art Project, calls for 10,000 guest homes and 1,000 furnished houses to be ready for visitors by March 15, a call sponsored by the village of Hempstead for the Nassau County Association. The fair drew crowds to Flushing Meadows in 1939 and 1940, and towns within commuting range of the city were scrambling for lodging, so the poster reads as a local housing drive tied to a national event. Its bold color and blunt wording make it a useful record of how Depression-era artists turned civic messages into public advertising.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1939. Sponsored by the village of Hempstead for the Nassau County Association Incorporated. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | New York Worlds Fair (1939-1940) Housing--New York (State)--Hempstead--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,747 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 679_Wanted_10000_guest_home_1939 |
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