Duquoin High School auditorium - Leaning on Letty the famous comedy success--A stage – Vintage Poster
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Duquoin High School auditorium - Leaning on Letty the famous comedy success--A stage. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Duquoin High School auditorium - Leaning on Letty the famous comedy success--A stage
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A small-town high school auditorium in Duquoin, Illinois, is the venue named on this poster, which advertises a staged production of *Leaning on Letty*, billed as a famous comedy success. The Federal theater Project sponsored the show, part of a New Deal program that put unemployed actors, directors and stagehands to work and brought live theater to communities far from big cities. The poster was printed in silkscreen, a technique the WPA poster units used to produce inexpensive, bold, colorful announcements. A date stamp on the back records 1938, two years after the 1936 date given for the design.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 27 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--Illinois--1930-1940. Comedies--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,818 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 383_Duquoin_High_School_aud_1936 |
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