Federal Theatre Project presents Festival of American dance featuring An American exo – Antique Poster Print
(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: Federal Theatre Project presents Festival of American dance featuring An American exo, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Federal Theatre Project presents Festival of American dance featuring An American exo
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This poster promotes a dance festival presented under the Federal theater Project, a New Deal program run through the Works Progress Administration, and its featured work, "An American Exodus," is named in the title. The program employed artists during the Depression, and its California productions drew on the state's large theater and dance community in the late 1930s. The silkscreen color printing reflects the WPA poster workshops, which produced low-cost, eye-catching announcements for federal arts events. Its dance and theater subject matter makes it a useful record of how the federal arts projects publicized performances to Depression-era audiences.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1940. Dance--California--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,763 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 487_Federal_Theatre_Project_1938 |
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