{"id":9170,"date":"2011-12-28T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2017-11-11T03:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:49:46","slug":"see-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/see-america\/","title":{"rendered":"See America&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9171\" title=\"see-america-welcome-to-montana-poster_20801_600x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/see-america-welcome-to-montana-poster_20801_600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9178\" title=\"grand-canyon-national-park-poster_20798_600x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/grand-canyon-national-park-poster_20798_600x4501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"595\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9173\" title=\"see-america-blue-cave-poster_20802_600x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/see-america-blue-cave-poster_20802_600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9179\" title=\"yellowstone-national-park-poster_20805_600x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/yellowstone-national-park-poster_20805_600x4501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9175\" title=\"national-parks-preserve-wildlife-poster_20800_600x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/national-parks-preserve-wildlife-poster_20800_600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington, DC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Created in the mid-1930s in response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration and its <em>Federal Arts Project<\/em> were focused in part on providing artwork for public buildings while assisting struggling artists. Artists were tasked with creating posters that promoted the landscapes and wildlife of America\u2019s parks. The program ended in 1943, and the largest collection of WPA-era prints\u2014including the images shown above\u2014is now in the U.S. Library of Congress, (<a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/wpaposters\/highlights.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>I&#8217;d posted about WPA posters earlier, <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/allnews\/wpa-poster-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><em>(<a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/national-parks\/vintage-posters\/#\/yellowstone-national-park-poster_20805_600x450.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">story source<\/a>, thanks to <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cadygraphics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy Cady<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC Created in the mid-1930s in response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration and its Federal Arts Project were focused in part on providing artwork for public buildings while assisting struggling artists. Artists were tasked with creating posters that promoted the landscapes and wildlife of America\u2019s parks. The program ended in 1943, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,9,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170"}],"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=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15431,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/15431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}