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Miscellaneous design. A view of the Anderson County art center, a simp...

Original Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) number: KX 220. Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division... More

Miscellaneous design. A view of the Anderson County art center, a simp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Pursuit of Happiness" face

In March read the books you've always meant to read

Poster for statewide Library Project showing a windblown woman and books by authors such as Scott, Dumas, Thackeray, Dickens, Austen, and others. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration... More

Human interest photography exhibit, Ottumwa Art Center / designed & pr...

Poster for photography exhibition showing a profile of a face and the same image inverted, as through a camera lense. Date stamped on verso: Feb 17 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library ... More

Discover Puerto Rico U.S.A. Where the Americas meet / / Frank S. Nicho...

Poster promoting Puerto Rico for tourism, showing view of harbor from Morro Castle. Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Art week in Chicago by proclamation of ... Honorable Edward J. Kelly, ...

Poster for "Art week in Chicago," showing an easel supporting an image of a woman wearing a headpiece "I will" with an eagle. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (... More

Is your child vaccinated Vaccination prevents smallpox - Chicago Depar...

Poster for Chicago Department of Health showing large red question mark. Date stamped on verso: Mar 20 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Make your health points--get your test now / Kreger.

City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium poster promoting testing for tuberculosis and showing two girls playing basketball, shooting at hoop "good health." Date stamped on verso: Apr 24 1939. Work Pro... More

"The shoe bears" A marionette play.

Poster for presentation of "The shoe bears" at the Sioux City Art Center, showing stylized heads of three bears. Date stamped on verso: Jan 13 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Lyman Bryson, famous forum leader, will discuss "Are we done with demo...

Poster announcing a public forum to be held at Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa, at which Lyman Bryson will discuss the future of democracy. Date stamped on verso: Oct 29 1940. Work Projects Administrati... More

Free art classes for children & adults Under direction of Federal Art ...

Poster announcing free art classes for children and adults. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Don't gamble with syphilis--Consult health authorities

Poster showing a man rolling dice. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

"Know your city" / City planning & housing exhibition : Sioux City Art...

Poster for exhibition to promote greater understanding among the public of their city through the presentation of "city planning & housing" information at the Sioux City Art Center, Iowa. Date stamped on verso:... More

History of civic services in the city of New York Fire Department No. ...

Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing bucket brigade and fire engine fighting a building fire in 1731. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congre... More

History of civic services in the city of New York Fire Department No. ...

Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing fire fighters with ladder truck fighting building fire in 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congres... More

A good lunch - one hot dish, meat, vegetables - sandwich - fruit - mil...

Poster promoting good eating habits in school. Date stamped on verso: Jul 7 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

East High, West Junior, North Junior, Woodrow Wilson Recreation Center...

Poster announcing activities, sponsored by the Sioux City Department of Public Recreation, that were open to the public at various local recreation centers. Date stamped on verso: Oct 29 1940. Work Projects Adm... More

East High, West Junior, North Junior, Woodrow Wilson Recreation Center...

Indian art of the United States Prehistoric art living traditions - In...

Poster announcing exhibition of Native American art at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York City, showing example of Native American art. An exhibition prepared by the Indian Arts and Crafts Bo... More

Exhibition Painting, prints, murals, sculpture by artists of the New Y...

Poster for exhibition of art by New York City Art Project artists from the Work Projects Administration Arts Program, at St. George Theatre, New York City. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Admi... More

The enemy is syphilis Enlist employees in a campaign against it.

Poster showing man wearing gas mask and men marching. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angel... More

National art week, November 25th - December 1st A work of American art...

Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

See America Visit the national parks.

Poster for United States Travel Bureau promoting travel to national parks, showing a waterfall. Date stamped on verso: Jul 22 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters ... More

Democracy .. a challenge - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congr...

Poster for democracy showing the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty. Date stamped on verso: Aug 1 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, announces the open...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition, showing an eagle clutching paint brushes and a palette. Attributed to Carken. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

A lifelong job--the constant protection of their health--The Cook Coun...

Poster showing a woman and two children in the rain. Date stamped on verso: Jan 8 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

January--A year of good reading ahead / Hazlett.

Poster for statewide WPA Library Project, Illinois, showing a child pulling a sled full of books toward a house. Date stamped on verso: Jan 8 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

The Athletic & Recreation Dept. presents Nassau Suffolk W.P.A. Symphon...

Poster announcing concert by the Nassau Suffolk W.P.A. Symphony Orchestra at the Post Gym at Mitchel Field. Date stamped on verso: May 14 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

What's right with America Des Moines Public Forums / / designed & made...

Poster announcing public forums with Bonaro Overstreet; citywide forum discussing "democracy as a personal experience" to be held at North High, Des Moines, Iowa, and neighborhood forums discussing "education f... More

Westfield Athenaeum - Federal Art Project water color show

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of watercolors at the Westfield Athenaeum. Date stamped on verso: Mar 20 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief agree...these books are too good to mi...

Poster promoting reading, showing a doctor, a lawyer, a merchant, and a Native American in headdress. Date hand-written on verso: 12/31/40. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Attention boys and girls - $250.00 in prizes - miniature home building...

Poster is text only. Date stamped on verso: May 3 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

National Art Week Buy your share / / designed & made by Iowa Art Progr...

Poster, with blue background, announcing National Art Week, during which "$5,000,000 worth of American art will be offered for sale at community art fairs throughout the U.S.A: Drawing, painting, prints, sculpt... More

Sculpture classes for children now in session Under direction of Art T...

Poster announcing scuplture classes for children conducted by the Art Teaching Division of the WPA Federal Art Project, showing sculpture of a horse. Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938. Work Projects Administrat... More

Poster show--at the Hull House ... in Benedict Art Gallery

Poster for Illinois Art Project poster show March 1 to 31. Date stamped on verso: Feb 24 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los ... More

Picasso--40 years of his art - Public domain dedication, Art Institute...

Poster for art exhibition Feb. 1 to Mar. 3 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Pr... More

Exhibition--Art by children - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Co...

Poster showing a child's hand on an artist's palette. Date stamped on verso: Feb 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angel... More

Water colors, WPA artists of New York, Ottumwa Art Center / designed &...

Poster announcing exhibit of watercolors by WPA artists from New York at the Ottumwa Art Center, Ottumwa, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Nov 8 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Print making A new tradition featuring original color lithography.

Poster for exhibition of lithographic print making techniques, showing lithographic stone and press. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Pos... More

Exhibition of recent fine prints Etchings, lithographs, wood engraving...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of fine prints by WPA artists, at the Federal Art Gallery, 7 E. 38 Street, New York City. Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collect... More

The curtain rises ... Contemporary plays and books on the Current Thea...

Poster about contemporary works "on the Current Theatre," showing a conductor standing before an open theatre curtain. Date stamped on verso: Jan 8 1942. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library ... More

Civil liberties in war times by Max Lerner City wide forum.

Poster for a lecture by Max Lerner at Roosevelt High, Des Moines, Iowa, showing an armored guantlet clenched in a fist. Date stamped on verso: Jan 22 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Librar... More

A trip around the world at story hour time Story hour club--W.P.A libr...

Poster for the WPA statewide library project, showing two children on a large book, looking down at mountains and trees. Made for WPA Statewide Library Project, Illinois. Date stamped on verso: Nov 28 1940. Wor... More

Watercolors, Ottumwa Art Center / BF.

Poster announcing exhibit of watercolors by(?) Rufino Tamayo, Elizabeth Terrell, and Julian Levi at the Ottumwa Art Center, Ottumwa, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Jun 17 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster... More

Free instruction in painting & drawing Art Teaching Division of the Fe...

Poster announcing free art classes in painting and drawing, showing a stylized still life. Date stamped on verso: Feb 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

51st annual exhibition - American painting and sculpture - The Art Ins...

Poster for art exhibit showing the American flag. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Public forum - Eric Grimwade, journalist and commentator, will discuss...

Poster for a public forum in Des Moines, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Oct 29 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

There are jobs for you, if trained Complete free course in household t...

Poster announcing opportunities and programs for persons with certain domestic skills and those wishing to acquire skills in homemaking. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

Curb service 10,000 current books - convenient, free, time saving : Ch...

Poster for bookmobile service of the Chicago Public Library, showing a traffic light. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

History of civic services in the city of New York Fire Department No. ...

Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing Peter Stuyvesant directing bucket brigade to put out building fire in 1656. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Librar... More

Exhibition Interior design by the interior design staff, Federal Art P...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of interior design. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Enjoy ice roller skating / J.P.

Poster promoting "ice roller skating" at the New York City Building, Flushing Meadow Park, New York. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon... More

Exhibition of art by children / Osborn.

Poster for an exhibition of children's art, showing a cow and a house. Date stamped on verso: Feb 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher ... More

Sioux City Civic Chorus of the Department of Public Recreation present...

Poster announcing presentation of Handel's "Messiah" by the Sioux City Civic Chorus at the Central High School auditorium, Sioux City, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Jan 22 1940. Work Projects Administration Post... More

Low rent homes for low income families Valleyview homes, West 7th and ...

Poster for Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority announcing new low income housing development, showing family looking at new homes. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Co... More

Find syphilis Help employees get blood tests.

Poster promoting employer-sponsored blood tests for the detection of syphilis, showing a doctor drawing blood from a worker in an industrial setting. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of C... More

Industrial designs by Joe Funk, Ottumwa Art Center / designed & made b...

Poster for exhibition of industrial designs at the Ottumwa Art Center, showing arrangement of several manufactured items. Date stamped on verso: Oct 29 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Libr... More

Public forum - H. Duncan Hall, former high official of the League of N...

Poster announcing a public forum in Des Moines, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Nov 8 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibition Oil paintings from the easel division : N.Y.C. WPA Art Proj...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of oil paintings. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Can you stop? - Speed and stopping distance - Iowa State Safety Counci...

Safety poster features a chart including miles per hour, feet per second, and estimated distance required to react, brake, and stop a vehicle. Date stamped on verso: Sep 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Po... More

Send your magazine subscriptions to New Trier Help support the scholar...

Poster for a fundraising drive by the New Trier girls' club, showing a clock tower. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibition of housing photographs Produced by Federal Art Project, Wor...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of photographs. Date stamped on verso: Aug 26 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Art classes for children / REK - Public domain portrait drawing

Poster showing a child drawing. Date stamped on verso: Feb 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c19... More

New Trier evening school Classes for adults, Wednesday evenings 7:30 -...

Poster showing a woman wearing an apron with her hand in a bowl of food. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Syphilis--Examination results are confidential ...

Poster showing a stethoscope, a hand holding a pen, and a padlock. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

October's "bright blue weather" A good time to read!.

Poster for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading a book, surrounded by a bat, ghost, witch, and other images of Halloween. Date stamped on verso: Aug 30 1940. Work Projects Administration Pos... More

Camp counselor training course, Washington University

Poster announcing availability of college course for camp counselor training at Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, showing animal skin stretched on a rack and tents. Date stamped on verso: Jan 29 194... More

Du Page County centennial flower show / Presented by the Home Gardener...

Poster showing a flower. Date stamped on verso: Jun 22 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibition Functions of the Federal Art Project.

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of the functions of the Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration. Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library ... More

Exhibition of oil paintings by artists in the easel division of the W....

Poster for exhibition of oil paintings at the W.P.A. Federal Art Project Gallery, 7 East 38th Street, New York City, New York, showing painting equipment. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library... More

8th year of Des Moines public forum - Harry Overstreet, famous America...

Poster for a public forum at East High, Des Moines, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Nov 8 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

National Art Week Buy your share / / designed & made by Iowa Art Progr...

Poster, with yellow background, announcing National Art Week, during which "$5,000,000 worth of American art will be offered for sale at community art fairs throughout the U.S.A: Drawing, painting, prints, scul... More

New Jersey paintings exhibit / IR.

Poster announcing exhibit of paintings at the Federal Art Gallery, 17 William St., Newark, N.J., showing bowl of fruit, jug, and glass as still life. Poster by Irving Russell. Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939.... More

History of civic services in the city of New York Fire Department No. ...

Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing a horse-drawn steam fire engine racing to the scene of a building fire in 1841. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Li... More

Little Miss Muffet ... reading a picture book ... / Gregg.

Poster promoting reading among children, showing Miss Muffet sharing her picture book with a spider. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Pos... More

Plains farms need trees Trees prevent wind erosion, save moisture ... ...

Poster encouraging planting trees as a method of soil conservation. Write the director, Prairie States Forestry Project, Lincoln, Nebraska. Date stamped on verso: Feb 10 1940. Work Projects Administration Poste... More

Sculpture exhibition New York City art project : Work Projects Adminis...

Poster announcing exhibit of sculpture from the New York City Art Project, showing sculpture of a seated woman. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

National letter writing week, Oct. 1-7 That letter will be appreciated...

Poster showing a mail carrier holding a letter. Date stamped on verso: Feb 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). More information about the WPA Posters is available at h... More

Freedom of expression, of religion, from want, from fear everywhere in...

Poster promoting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four freedoms, showing a globe, two books, and the hand and torch from the Statue of Liberty. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Co... More

Federal Art Project - exhibition of paintings

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of paintings, showing a hand holding a brush painting a bowl of fruit. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Stop syphilis Support local and state efforts to reduce syphilis.

Poster showing a house, city skyscrapers, and smokestacks. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los ... More

The Work Projects Administration is cooperating in the national campai...

Poster encouraging cooperation in eradicating syphilis. Date stamped on verso: May 28 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration art exhibition by a...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of art by WPA Federal Art Project artists at the Albany Institute of History and Art. Date stamped on verso: Sep 16 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection... More

Parks exhibition International Building, Rockefeller Center / / execut...

Poster for exhibition at the International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City, showing stylized illustration of tree in front of cage containing a wild cat. Date stamped on verso: Apr 16 1937. Work Pro... More

Federal Theatre Marionettes present "A Christmas carol"

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "A Christmas Carol" at the Repertory Theatre, showing a man in period costume playing a horn while walking down a street. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

A mural by the children in the free class of the Federal Art Project a...

Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Uptown Art Lab - Public domain monumental decor print

Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

"The first legion" by Emmet Lavery a Jesuit play.

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "The First Legion" at the Avery Memorial theater, showing a robed figure kneeling at the base of a stone cross. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection ... More

High school with Federal Art Project mural, Fullerton, California

Title based on similarity to negative in same group: LC-USF34-016509-E. Title and other information from caption card: Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten children. From Chickasa... More

High school showing part of Federal Art Project mural decoration. Full...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[High school with Federal Art Project mural, Fullerton, California

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

High school showing part of Federal Art Project mural decoration. Full...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a narrow passage, corridor, street, old town architecture, arch, vintage print, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prints for the people A national exhibition of prints made by artists ...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of prints by WPA Federal Art Project artists at the International Art Center, 310 Riverside Drive and 103rd St., showing printmaking equipment. Work Projects Administra... More