Direct to mum show Garfield Park Conservatory / Whitley. – 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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A window into the past: Direct to mum show Garfield Park Conservatory / Whitley., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Direct to mum show Garfield Park Conservatory / Whitley.
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Few posters in the Work Projects Administration collection point to a single event as directly as this one, which names the Garfield Park Conservatory on Chicago's West Side as its venue. The Federal Art Project sponsored the poster, and its color silkscreen process let artists produce bold, flat-color posters inexpensively for public events during the Depression. Flower shows at Chicago's public conservatories were a popular civic attraction in the 1930s, and posters like this one were meant to catch the eye of passersby. The name "Whitley" appears in the title line, but the record does not say whether it refers to a designer, an exhibitor or another participant.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date hand-written on verso: 12/31/41. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Flowers--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. Flower shows--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,384 × 3,000 px · prints to 8 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 608_Direct_to_mum_show_Garf_1936 |
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