What's your favorite winter activity? (LOC)

As we look forward to a new year, we're enjoying our own wintry mix. This was one of several posters featured in a recent Picture This, blog post, 'Posters of the Winter Season."

 

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Hazlett, artist

 

January--A year of good reading ahead

 

Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]

 

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

 

Notes:

• Summary: 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). More information about the WPA Posters is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.wpapos

• Federal Art Project , sponsor

 

Subjects:

• Books--1930-1950.

• Children playing in snow--Illinois--1930-1950.

• Sleds & sleighs--Illinois--1930-1950.

 

Format:

• Posters--1930-1950.

• Screen prints--Color--1930-1950.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05186

 

Call Number: POS - WPA - ILL .H385, no. 2 (B size)

 

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