Halloween roller skating carnival Bring your skates (S) Prizes will be awarded for cost – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Halloween roller skating carnival Bring your skates (S) Prizes will be awarded for cost. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Halloween roller skating carnival Bring your skates (S) Prizes will be awarded for cost
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A 1936 New York poster for a Halloween roller skating carnival, with prizes for costumes, stands out among the Federal Art Project's many event announcements from that period. Its silkscreen colors and bold lettering show the poster division's practice of making inexpensive, reproducible prints to advertise local recreation. The date stamped on the back, October 20, 1936, suggests it was made for an event that autumn. WPA programs like this one gave artists paid work while promoting public recreation, and posters such as this one record how communities kept up social life during the Depression.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Oct 20 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Roller skating--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Halloween--1930-1940. Contests--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,212 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 468_Halloween_roller_skatin_1936 |
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