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WPA Posters: Rotten Living Decent Living Through Planned Housing.
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WPA Posters: Rotten Living Decent Living Through Planned Housing.
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Poster promoting planned housing as a solution to better living conditions in cities, showing a child standing in a alley with a trash can and cat rummaging through the garbage. Poster design attributed to John Wagner. New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor - Langdon W. Post, Commissoner. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 222

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WPA Posters: Rural Pennsylvania
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Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing a man and a woman from a religious community and scenes depicting rural Pennsylvania. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 102. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 303

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WPA Posters: Rural Pennsylvania
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Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing children from a religious community. Date stamped on verso: May 2 1940. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 305

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WPA Posters: Rural Pennsylvania
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Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing children from a religious community. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 101. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 305 (another version)

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WPA Posters: Rural Pennsylvania Colonial Pennsylvania Exists To-Day in Many Churches, Costumes, Crafts of The German Sectarians
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Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing pottery. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 103.

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WPA Posters: Russian Symphony Series, Eugene Plotnikoff Conducting Featuring Works of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff & Others : W.P.A. Federal Music Project.
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WPA Posters: Russian Symphony Series, Eugene Plotnikoff Conducting Featuring Works of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff & Others : W.P.A. Federal Music Project.
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Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of a Russian symphony concert series at the Federal Music Theatre, 254 W. 54th St., New York City. Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 241

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WPA Posters: Safeguard Your Home - Always Disconnect Cord When Leaving Iron Even For a Minute
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Poster promoting home safety. Date stamped on verso: Oct 14 1940. Poster design by Al Gladstone.

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WPA Posters: Safety Comes First
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Poster promoting safety in the workplace, showing a wheel with spokes and a locomotive. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 235

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WPA Posters: Safety For You, For All
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Poster for the WPA Illinois Safety Division promoting safety, showing a civil defense symbol. Hand-written on verso: 10/13/36. Designed by Carken.

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WPA Posters: Salvage Scrap to Blast The Jap
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Poster for Thirteenth Naval District, United States Navy, showing a snake representing Japan being bombed by an eagle. Title transcribed from item. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 264

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WPA Posters: Save Scrap For Victory! Save Metals, Save Paper, Save Rubber, Save Rags.
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Poster for the Philadelphia Salvage Committee encouraging scrap drives to aid the war effort. Approved and released by the Philadelphia Council of Defense. Philadelphia Salvage Committee.

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WPA Posters: Save Your Eyes - Use Your Goggles
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Poster for WPA Illinois Safety Division promoting safety and use of proper eye protection. Date stamped on verso: Apr 28 1937. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 214

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WPA Posters: Say It With Stamps Buy!! Nassau County Poster Stamps : "What Helps Nassau Helps You!"
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Poster for Nassau County Association fund raising drive stamp sale. Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1939. Sponsored by Board of Supervisors, County of Nassau.

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WPA Posters: Sculpture Classes For Children Now in Session Under Direction of Art Teaching Division, Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration.
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Poster announcing scuplture classes for children conducted by the Art Teaching Division of the WPA Federal Art Project, showing sculpture of a horse. Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938.

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WPA Posters: Sculpture Exhibition - March 23-April 16 - Federal Art Gallery
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Poster for Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration exhibition of sculpture at the Federal Art Gallery, 225 West 57 St., New York City, showing Maurice Glickman's "Destitute (Mother and child)." Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 65

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WPA Posters: Sculpture Exhibition New York City Art Project : Work Projects Administration.
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Poster announcing exhibit of sculpture from the New York City Art Project, showing sculpture of a seated woman. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941.

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WPA Posters: Sculpture Exhibition a Survey of Work Produced by Artists in The Sculpture Division of The WPA Federal Art Project.
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Poster announcing exhibit of sculpture by WPA Federal Art Project artists at the WPA Federal Art Project Gallery, 7 East 38 Street, New York City.

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WPA Posters: Seattle Children's Theatre [presents] "Flight" a Living Newspaper Play
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Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Flight" at the Federal Theatre, Rainier & Atlantic, Seattle, Washington, showing an airplane. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 106

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