Party & barter - benefit Nassau art teachers scholarship fund Coca Cola Plant Rockvil – Vintage Poster
(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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Party & barter - benefit Nassau art teachers scholarship fund Coca Cola Plant Rockvil
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A benefit party with barter, held in 1939 at the Coca-Cola plant in Rockville center on Long Island, is the particular subject of this poster. Its purpose was to raise money for a scholarship fund for art teachers in Nassau County. Southside High School sponsored the notice, and the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, lent its name and its silkscreen process. That technique let the project's poster unit make inexpensive, bold color prints for community events. The playing-card motif hints at the games and trading that filled the evening, and the date stamped on the back, July 18, 1939, fixes the poster to that summer.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Poster sponsored by Southside High School. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Coca-Cola Company--Public relations--New York (State)--Rockville Centre--1930-1950. Playing cards--1930-1940. Parties--New York (State)--Rockville Centre--1930-1940. Fund raising--New York (State)--Rockville Centre--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,735 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 374_Party_barter_benefit_1939 |
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