Triple a plowed under"" – Historic Print
![Triple a plowed under"", [California : Federal Art Project, 1936] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e8/e8c366b13a94-L.webp)
(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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Triple a plowed under"" comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Triple a plowed under""
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Few posters on this board show a stage production and a farm scene at once, and this one does both. It advertises a Los Angeles staging of *Triple-A Plowed Under*, a Federal theater Project "Living Newspaper" drama about the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, whose crop-reduction program paid farmers to plow under part of their cotton, wheat, and other crops to raise prices during the Depression. The play, by Arthur Arent, used short scenes, projections, and dialogue drawn from news reports to explain a policy that many audiences found confusing. The silkscreen was printed by the Federal Art Project in California, one of the Works Progress Administration's arts programs.
| Created / published | [California : Federal Art Project, 1936] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Theatrical posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. Plowing--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,359 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214529 |
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