14th Illinois cattle feeders meeting Nov. 8 1940 University of Illinois Urbana Ill. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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 14th Illinois cattle feeders meeting Nov. 8 1940 University of Illinois Urbana Ill., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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14th Illinois cattle feeders meeting Nov. 8 1940 University of Illinois Urbana Ill.
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Urbana, Illinois, was a farming town at the center of the state's corn and livestock country, and this 1940 view records a working landscape rather than a grand civic building. The title points to the cattle feeders, the sheds and pens where beef cattle were fattened on grain before going to market, a common sight across the Corn Belt in the early twentieth century. The print was issued by the Illinois Work Projects Administration Art Project in Chicago, one of the New Deal programs that employed artists during the Great Depression to document local buildings and everyday life. Such images now serve as a useful record of how agricultural structures looked before later changes to farming.
| Created / published | 1940 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Meetings--Illinois--1940. Cattle--Illinois--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 996 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 305_14th_Illinois_cattle_fe_1940 |
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