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TITLE:  Fire wrecks a forest

CALL NUMBER:  POS - WPA - ILL .01 .F534, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC2-859 (color film copy slide)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Poster for forest fire prevention showing a burning cigarette and a forest fire.

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

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  Chicago, Ill. : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]

NOTES:

Date stamped on verso: Jan 13 1939.

Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 230.

SUBJECTS:

Fire prevention--1930-1940.
Forest fires--1930-1940.
Cigarettes--1930-1940.

FORMAT:

Posters 1930-1940.
Screen prints Color 1930-1940.

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

DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy slide) cph 3b48759 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48759

VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003B-48759 (from color film copy slide)

CONTROL #:  98508191



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