Swing parade 1937 musical smash hit positively last week! – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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Swing parade 1937 musical smash hit positively last week! comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Swing parade 1937 musical smash hit positively last week!
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Few posters in this set promise a "musical smash hit positively last week," and this one, for the Federal theater Project's *Swing Parade* of 1937, advertises a stage revue staged in California. The Federal theater Project was one of the WPA's arts programs, created in 1935 to give unemployed actors, dancers, and musicians paid work during the Depression. Its posters were printed by silkscreen, a method the WPA poster units used to produce bold, inexpensive advertising in quantity. The subject lines point to two 1930s enthusiasms, the swing dance craze and the revue format, both of which drew large audiences to theaters of the period.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Ser. No. 906. · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Musical revues & comedies--California--1930-1940. Dance--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,769 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 414_Swing_parade_1937_music_1937 |
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