Save our wild life / Dorothy Waugh. – Historic Print
![Save our wild life / Dorothy Waugh., [between 1930 and 1940] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f9/f934160d1125-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 vintage poster of Save our wild life / Dorothy Waugh. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Save our wild life / Dorothy Waugh.
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Swans set this poster apart from the many wildlife images on the board, and its message is aimed at the public rather than at scientists. The National Park Service issued it in the 1930s, when the agency was using posters to promote its parks and the case for protecting native animals. By then, the trumpeter swan had been hunted and its habitat reduced to the point that it had nearly disappeared from much of the country, so a bird like this stood for a wider concern about what had already been lost. Dorothy Waugh's design presents the swans as something worth saving, not as game.
| Created / published | [between 1930 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Travel posters 1930-1940.Prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Issued by: Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Promotional goal: U.S. A35. 193-. |
| Subjects | United States.--National Park Service--Public relations--1930-1940. Wildlife conservation--United States--1930-1940. Swans--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,732 × 4,653 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221726 |
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