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City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 North Beach. – Vintage Print

City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 North Beach., NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937] — vintage poster
City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 North Beach., NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937]. Vintage poster from the Aviation collection.

(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 City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 North Beach., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This poster presents two of New York City's municipal airfields side by side: Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and North Beach in Queens, the site that would later become LaGuardia Airport. Floyd Bennett Field, named for the naval aviator who flew with Richard Byrd, opened in 1931 as the city's first municipal airport. The silkscreen was made under the WPA Federal Art Project, and its text credits Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Commissioner of Docks John McKenzie, the officials who oversaw the city's aviation expansion in the 1930s. A December 1937 date stamp on the back suggests it was already in circulation by then.

Created / publishedNYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937]
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
GenrePosters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940.
NotesDate stamped on verso: Dec 8 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). F.H. La Guardia, Mayor - John McKenzie, Commissioner of Docks. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 142
SubjectsAirplanes--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Airports--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,160 × 1,472 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218165

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