{"id":5787,"date":"2010-09-04T21:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T02:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2010-09-04T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T02:14:29","slug":"wpa-poster-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wpa-poster-art\/","title":{"rendered":"WPA poster art&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPA_Milk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5790\" title=\"WPA_Milk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPA_Milk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPA_posters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5791\" title=\"WPA_posters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPA_posters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington, United States<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943<\/em> collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s <em>New Deal<\/em> (WPA = <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Works_Progress_Administration\" target=\"_blank\">Works Progress Administration<\/a>). Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress\u2019s collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. (The posters were made possible by one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts and were added to the Library\u2019s holdings in the 1940s).<\/p>\n<p>View the WPA poster collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/search\/?sp=9&amp;co=wpapos&amp;st=grid\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/splashdesign.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phred Martin<\/a> for the link.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, United States The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal (WPA = Works Progress Administration). Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,9,14,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}