Works Progress Administration Illinois District 6--March of leisure time May 1st 1937 – 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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Works Progress Administration Illinois District 6--March of leisure time May 1st 1937 comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Works Progress Administration Illinois District 6--March of leisure time May 1st 1937
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Dated May 1, 1937, this silkscreen poster from Illinois District 6 promotes a "March of Leisure Time," and its subject ties the event to Springfield, the state capital. Like much of the Works Progress Administration's output, it was produced under the Federal Art Project, which employed artists during the Depression to make inexpensive public notices for government-sponsored programs. Posters of this kind were usually printed in small runs and pasted on walls and storefronts, so a surviving example, stamped on the back with a May 22, 1937 date, offers a glimpse of how federal recreation programs were advertised to ordinary residents of the period.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: May 22 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Leisure--Illinois--Springfield--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,732 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 711_Works_Progress_Administ_1937 |
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