Be kind to books club Are you a member? / Gregg. – 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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A window into the past: Be kind to books club Are you a member? / Gregg., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Be kind to books club Are you a member? / Gregg.
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Be kind to books" is the slogan, and the question "Are you a member?" turns a lesson in careful handling into an invitation. Designed by Gregg in 1936 and printed in silkscreen, the poster is a Federal Art Project work from the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal program that used inexpensive screen printing to carry public messages into libraries, schools and storefronts. Its listed subjects, Illinois children and reading in the 1930s, place it within local efforts to encourage young readers. A date stamped on the back, August 1940, shows the sheet stayed in use for several years after it was made.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Aug 30 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 162 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Book clubs--Illinois--1930-1940. Children--Illinois--1930-1940. Reading--Illinois--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 987 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 264_Be_kind_to_books_club_A_1936 |
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