Popular Price Theatre presents The dictator" A farce by Richard Harding Davis / Pratt." – Antique Poster Print
![Popular Price Theatre presents The dictator" A farce by Richard Harding Davis / Pratt.", [New York : Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1941] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e9/e9fecf37beb7-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Popular Price Theatre presents The dictator" A farce by Richard Harding Davis / Pratt.". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Popular Price Theatre presents The dictator" A farce by Richard Harding Davis / Pratt."
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Few posters from the Federal theater Project's low-price branch are as striking as this color silkscreen advertising *The Dictator*, a farce by Richard Harding Davis, the journalist and author known for his war reporting and popular fiction. The Popular Price theater aimed to bring stage productions to working audiences for little money during the Depression, and posters like this carried that invitation into city streets. Produced in New York between 1936 and 1941, it reflects the Federal Art Project's stencil-based style, with flat color and bold lettering meant to be read quickly from a distance.
| Created / published | [New York : Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1941] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Theatrical posters 1930-1950.Screen prints Color 1930-1950. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 96 |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,135 × 1,439 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218841 |
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