[Sporting event poster showing athletes running a race as spectators cheer] – Historic Poster Reproduction
![[Sporting event poster showing athletes running a race as spectators cheer], 1976 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ef/ef47de920d84-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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This rare vintage poster captures [Sporting event poster showing athletes running a race as spectators cheer] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Runners stride toward the finish while crowds cheer in this chromolithograph, but its record ties it to politics as much as to sport. It was issued under the Physical Culture and Sport Commission and is linked to the founding congress of the Workers Party of Ethiopia and the tenth anniversary of the revolution, both marked in 1984, so the 1976 date may be inaccurate. The poster reflects the Derg-era government's habit of using mass athletic participation to project national unity and discipline.
| Created / published | 1976 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 59 x 45 cm. |
| Genre | Sports posters Ethiopian 1970-1980.Chromolithographs Color 1970-1980. |
| Notes | Physical Culture & Sport Commission. Workers Party of Ethiopia Founding Congress & 10th Anniversary of the Revolution 1984. |
| Subjects | Running races--Ethiopia--1970-1980. Sports--Ethiopia--1970-1980. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,672 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221645 |
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