Work with care – 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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Work with care 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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Here a riveter's hands and a steel beam take center stage, with a bold color woodcut making the warning about careless work hard to miss. It is one of the Work Projects Administration posters, produced under the Federal Art Project during the late 1930s, when the federal government put artists to work designing public messages on everything from health to public safety. Safety campaigns of that era aimed at the hazards of heavy construction and steel work, where a moment of inattention could injure a crew. The poster's stamped date of March 1937 places it in the middle of the program's most active years, and its direct, graphic style reflects the broader push to make public information clear enough to read at a glance.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 210 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Riveting--1930-1940. Safety--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,178 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 851_Work_with_care_1936 |
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