A guide to the golden state from the past to the present California history and cultu – 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 A guide to the golden state from the past to the present California history and cultu. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A guide to the golden state from the past to the present California history and cultu
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This 1936 silkscreen poster promotes a guidebook, the California volume of the American Guide Series, which the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California sponsored. Its title, "A Guide to the Golden State from the Past to the Present," signals the book's broad aim of covering California's history and culture. The Federal Writers Project was one of several New Deal arts and white-collar programs that put unemployed writers to work documenting American states, cities and regions. Silkscreen posters like this one, produced under the WPA's federal art program, are now prized for their bold color and their role in publicizing public projects 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. 252 · Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California sponsor. |
| Subjects | American guide series. Tourism--California--1930-1950. Books--1930-1950.United States--California. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,196 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 38_A_guide_to_the_golden_s_1936 |
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