Port of Philadelphia – Antique Poster Print
(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.)
Description
Port of Philadelphia comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Port of Philadelphia
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Rather than a skyline or a monument, this 1936 color woodblock poster centers on the shipping and wharves of the Port of Philadelphia, a working Delaware River waterfront in the middle of the Great Depression. It was produced under the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, which employed artists to design posters promoting public events and services. Domenic Rotoli cut the blocks, and a date stamp of March 27, 1937, on the back records when the sheet was handled, about a year after its design date.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodblock color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Blocks by Domenic Rotoli. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Shipping--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1930-1940. Piers & wharves--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,210 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 782_Port_of_Philadelphia_1936 |
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