Human interest photography exhibit Ottumwa Art Center / designed & processed by Iowa – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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Human interest photography exhibit Ottumwa Art Center / designed & processed by Iowa comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Human interest photography exhibit Ottumwa Art Center / designed & processed by Iowa
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This silkscreen poster announces a human interest photography exhibit at the Ottumwa Art Center in Iowa, a show that ran under the sponsorship of the Federal Art Project. The Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, was the New Deal agency that employed artists during the Depression, and its arts units made posters like this one to advertise exhibitions, concerts and classes in towns across the country. Posters from the program were often printed by silkscreen, a method that let small local units produce bright, flat colors cheaply. This example is dated 1936 in the record, and a later date stamp on its back suggests it was kept on file by the Iowa unit.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Feb 17 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 71 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Exhibitions--Iowa--Ottumwa--1930-1950. Photography--Iowa--Ottumwa--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 986 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 573_Human_interest_photogra_1936 |
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