A sparkling musical revue Gaieties of 1936 – Antique Poster Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of A sparkling musical revue Gaieties of 1936. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A sparkling musical revue Gaieties of 1936
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This silkscreen poster advertises *Gaieties of 1936*, a musical revue staged in Los Angeles under the Federal theater Project, the branch of the Works Progress Administration that put out-of-work actors, writers, and stagehands back to work during the Great Depression. The Federal theater Project ran theater companies across the country and aimed to bring affordable live performance to audiences who could rarely pay for Broadway or commercial shows. Its posters were usually produced by the WPA's graphic arts units, which relied on the silkscreen process to print bold, flat areas of color cheaply in large runs. Posters like this one are now valued as both theater history and an example of 1930s American graphic design.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Federal Stage Shows Div. of W.P.A. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Musical revues & comedies--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,743 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 738_A_sparkling_musical_rev_1936 |
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