LOC Adds WPA Posters to Collection

The Library of Congress has started a new American Memory collection of WPA posters at http://memory.loc. gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html .

The collection, which has an official title of "By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943," contains 907 of the approximately 2,000 WPA Federal Art Project Posters that are still in existence. (About 35,000 were around at one time, so obviously most of them have been lost.)

You can search the collection by keyword, or browse by subject or artist. Each listing has a thumbnail picture of the graphic, with artist and poster information. Clicking on the thumbnail gives you a larger picture with varying options for even larger pictures (like 32MB TIF archivable copies! Yikes.)

There are several different subjects here and the pictures are cool in an retro/woodcut/social culture abstract kinda way. Worth a look.

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