WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free band concerts [at the] Brook – Antique Poster Print
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(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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Step back in time with WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free band concerts [at the] Brook, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free band concerts [at the] Brook
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The WPA Federal Music Project poster advertising free band concerts at the Brooklyn Museum stands out for its focus on public music in a museum setting, a pairing that was not especially common. The Federal Music Project was one of the arts programs of the Works Progress Administration, created in 1935 to put unemployed musicians to work and bring live performance to ordinary neighborhoods. Its posters were often produced by the Federal Art Project's silkscreen workshops, which made bold, flat-color designs cheap enough to post on streets, storefronts and public buildings. Posters like this one were part of a broader effort to make culture visible and accessible to working-class New Yorkers during the Depression.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 307 · Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Concerts--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 990 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 441_WPA_Federal_Music_Proje_1936 |
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