A Good Lunch - One Hot Dish, Meat, Vegetables - Sandwich - Fruit - Milk WPA School Lunch – 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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This vintage poster of A Good Lunch - One Hot Dish, Meat, Vegetables - Sandwich - Fruit - Milk WPA School Lunch brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A Good Lunch - One Hot Dish, Meat, Vegetables - Sandwich - Fruit - Milk WPA School Lunch
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A plain list of foods, one hot dish, meat, vegetables, a sandwich, fruit and milk, forms the message of this color silkscreen poster made under the Oklahoma arm of the Federal Art Project. Produced around 1941, when the Works Progress Administration employed artists across the country, it argued that a well-balanced school lunch could improve children's health and learning. Silkscreen was an economical method suited to printing multiple copies for schools and public spaces. Posters like this aimed to make good nutrition easy to grasp at a glance during the Depression years, when many families struggled to afford balanced meals.
| Created / published | c. 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print on board, poster, silkscreen, color |
| Notes | WPA Oklahoma Art Project. Federal Art Project, sponsor |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,363 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 23 |
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