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TITLE:  Federal Theatre presents "Big blow" A drama of the hurricane country by Theodore Pratt / Halls.

CALL NUMBER:  POS - WPA - NY .H355, no. 15 (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC2-1114 (color film copy slide)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Big Blow" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, 109 West 39th Street, New York City, showing a woman and a man struggling against gale force winds.

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

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  NYC : WPA Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1939]

CREATOR:

Halls, Richard, 1906- artist.

RELATED NAMES:

Pratt, Theodore, 1901-
Federal Theatre Project (New York, N.Y.), sponsor.

NOTES:

Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939.

Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 288

SUBJECTS:

Theatrical productions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
Hurricanes--1930-1940.

FORMAT:

Theatrical 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 3b49014 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49014

VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003B-49014 (from color film copy slide)

CONTROL #:  98517503



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