Green grow the lilacs – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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 Green grow the lilacs. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Riggs's 1931 play about courtship on a farm in Indian Territory gives this poster its subject, and the title comes from a line in the play. The Federal Art Project's Los Angeles unit produced the silkscreen in 1937 under the Works Progress Administration, when federal artists made posters to advertise community theater productions. The play's rural setting, with its farm life, box social, and rivalry between two suitors, was later reworked into the musical *Oklahoma!* (1943), which makes the poster a useful record of an earlier stage of that story.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Riggs Lynn 1899-1954. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. Farm life--1930-1940. Farms--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 952 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 587_Green_grow_the_lilacs_1937 |
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