The Federal Theatre Project presents Day is darkness in 3 acts The famous anti-nazi p – Antique Poster Print
(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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The Federal Theatre Project presents Day is darkness in 3 acts The famous anti-nazi p 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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Few posters of the period were made for a Yiddish-language stage in Los Angeles, and this one was produced for a production in Boyle Heights, the city's Jewish and immigrant neighborhood. The Boyle Heights Progressive Benevolent Club sponsored the show, and the record credits Fess George alongside the Federal theater Project, the New Deal arm of the Works Progress Administration that put theater workers back on payrolls during the Depression. Its billing as "the famous anti-Nazi play" reflects how seriously many American communities took the threat from Germany in 1939, the year the war began in Europe. The silkscreen color and bold lettering show how the WPA's poster units turned live theater into a public announcement.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Sponsored by Boyle Heights Progressive Benevolent Club. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Fess George. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--Boyle Heights--1930-1940. Yiddish theater--California--1930-1940. Anti-Nazi movement--California--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,760 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 68_The_Federal_Theatre_Pro_1939 |
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