What Anne brought home – 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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A window into the past: What Anne brought home, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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What Anne brought home
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This 1936 silkscreen poster advertises *What Anne Brought Home*, a Federal theater Project production in California. The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, employed actors, directors and designers during the Depression and staged plays for audiences who often could not afford a regular night at the theater. WPA Art Program posters like this one were printed by silkscreen, a method that made bold, inexpensive images that could be produced in quantity and posted quickly across towns. Silkscreen work of this kind generally relied on flat areas of color and simplified shapes, which suited both the speed of production and the need for posters to be read at a glance.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1940. Couples--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,770 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 477_What_Anne_brought_home_1936 |
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