Vaudeville frolic 15 acts (S) Gala midnight show New Years eve. – 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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This rare vintage poster captures Vaudeville frolic 15 acts (S) Gala midnight show New Years eve. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Vaudeville frolic 15 acts (S) Gala midnight show New Years eve.
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A New Year's Eve gala midnight show in San Diego, billed as a vaudeville frolic with 15 acts, is the event this 1936 poster advertises. It was issued under the Federal theater Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration that put actors, writers, and stagehands back to work during the Great Depression. The WPA poster units printed many such announcements in silkscreen, using flat, bold color blocks that made them cheap to reproduce and easy to read from a distance. Its marketing of a single lavish night of entertainment reflects how public theater was promoted to working audiences in the 1930s.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | A Federal Road Show Attraction - Div. of W.P.A. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Vaudeville shows--California--San Diego--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,744 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 889_Vaudeville_frolic_15_ac_1936 |
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