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TITLE:  This calendar, created and executed by The Poster Division of the New York Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, comes to you with the New Year's greetings from the Project

CALL NUMBER:  LOT 13126, no. 1 verso [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-7687 (color film copy transparency)

SUMMARY:  Presentation page for the WPA Federal Art Project calendar for 1939. The calendar was presented to members of congress and the current administration as a 1939 New Year's greeting. Opponents of the Project claimed that the calendar was a misuse of taxpayer money, so what was intended to generate goodwill turned into a minor controversy.

MEDIUM:  1 sheet (text) : color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1938]

CREATOR:

Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.). Poster Division.

NOTES:

Included on the caption are the names of the national and regional directors of the Federal Art Project, Holger Cahill and Audrey McMahon, respectively, the head of the poster division, Richard Floethe, as well as the administrator of the Works Progress Administration, Col. Frank C. Harrington.

Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316

FORMAT:

Calendars 1930-1940.
Prints Color 1930-1940.

PART OF:  Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project 1939.

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

DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g07687 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g07687

CONTROL #:  00651434


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