See America Welcome to Montana / M. Weitzman. – 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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See America Welcome to Montana / M. Weitzman. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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See America Welcome to Montana / M. Weitzman.
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The WPA poster "See America: Welcome to Montana" was designed by M. Weitzman in 1936 as part of the Federal Art Project's push to promote domestic travel during the Great Depression. The silkscreen print uses bold flat color to present Montana's mountain scenery as an invitation to visitors, a common approach in the Works Progress Administration's tourism posters of the late 1930s. The verso bears a June 28, 1939 date stamp, showing that the sheet passed through an office or collection well after its original printing. Its survival in the Library of Congress's WPA Poster Collection makes it a useful record of how federal artists marketed the American West to a country still recovering from economic hardship.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 135 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Tourism--Montana--1930-1940. Mountains--Montana--1930-1940. Montana--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,214 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 730_See_America_Welcome_to_1936 |
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