Childrens festival Saturday May 25th 1940 Community Square Queensbridge Housing Proje – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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Childrens festival Saturday May 25th 1940 Community Square Queensbridge Housing Proje 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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Childrens festival Saturday May 25th 1940 Community Square Queensbridge Housing Proje
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A children's festival on Saturday, May 25, 1940, at Community Square in the Queensbridge Housing Project gives this poster its particular setting. Queensbridge, in Long Island City, Queens, was among the first large public housing developments in the United States, and its shared spaces were meant to bring families together in a planned neighborhood. The Federal Art Project, part of the Work Projects Administration, sponsored the poster, and its silkscreen printing shows how the program produced inexpensive, bold announcements for community events during the Depression.
| Created / published | 1940 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 21 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 148 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Festivals--New York (State)--New York--1940. Children playing outdoors--New York (State)--New York--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 992 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 327_Childrens_festival_Satu_1940 |
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