Books are weapons (LOC)

Books are weapons Read about... "The negro in national defense," "Africa and the war," [and] "Negro history and culture" at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library /

 

[New York] : NYC WPA War Services, [between 1941 and 1943]

 

1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.

 

Notes:

Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 272

Poster encouraging citizens to use the resources at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library to learn more about African and African American history and culture.

Exhibited in: American Responses to Nazi Book Burning, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 2003.

 

Subjects:

Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History--Public relations--1940-1950.

World War, 1939-1945--African Americans.

Reading--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950.

 

Format: War posters--1940-1950.

Screen prints--Color--1940-1950.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49024

 

Call Number: POS - WPA - NY .P06, no. 2

 

 

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