How would you make this poster come alive? (LOC)

We invite you to explore and imagine. Poster House, a new museum, is accepting entries during December 2018 for their poster animating contest using a set of Library of Congress posters. Read more about it in our Picture This blog post, “Poster Parade: Free to Use–and Animate!”

 

And have a look at an earlier blog post that featured this very poster: Feast Your Eyes: Floating Pies.

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Lloyd J. Harriss Pies. [Milwaukee : 1947]

 

1 print (poster) : chromolithograph.

 

Summary: Poster shows George Washington crossing a river of cherry pies. It is a spoof on Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington crossing the Delaware

 

Notes:

• A.C. Schultz Litho. Co.

• Signed: Navigato.

 

Subjects:

• Washington, George,--1732-1799.

• Pies--1940-1950.

 

Format:

• Advertisements--1940-1950.

• Chromolithographs--1940-1950.

• Posters--American--1940-1950.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. No copyright renewal found in U.S. Copyright Office (checked 2014).

 

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/ppmsca.12815

 

Call number: POS - ADV 20th c. - Food. S273, no. 1 (C size)

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