Federal Theatre Project vaudeville benefit poster, Salem, Feb 11 – Vintage Poster
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Federal Theatre Project vaudeville benefit poster, Salem, Feb 11 comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Federal Theatre Project vaudeville benefit poster, Salem, Feb 11
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A benefit poster for a vaudeville program in Salem, advertising a performance on February 11, places this piece in the local theater life of the 1930s. The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, ran from 1935 to 1939 to put out-of-work actors, directors, designers, and stagehands back to work during the Depression. Its productions ranged from classic drama to vaudeville and children's shows, often staged in small cities as well as large ones. Posters like this one show how the project used bold color and simple graphic design to draw audiences to live performance.
| Original scan | 2,363 × 3,575 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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