Works Progress Administration Auto Posters -- great art, great expressions of 1930s &1940s car culture
- Title: Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use hose for washing your automobile. Do use water from a pail / / Kerkam.
- Date Created/Published: [New York] : NYC WPA War Services, [between 1941 and 1943]
- Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
- Summary: Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a man washing his car.
- Title: Don't kill our wild life
- Date Created/Published: NYC : Works Progress
Administration, Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]
- Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen,
color.
- Title: Can you stop? - Speed and stopping distance -
Iowa State Safety Council / designed & produced by Iowa Art Program.
- Date Created/Published: [Iowa]: Iowa Art Program,
[between 1936 and 1940]
- Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen,
color.
- Summary: Safety poster features a chart including miles
per hour, feet per second, and estimated distance required to react, brake, and
stop a vehicle.
- Title: Evite accidentes No se quede en la calle durante
una alarma / / 6 MAR.
- Creator(s): RodrÃdguez,
Miguel A., artist
- Related Names:
Federal
Art Project , sponsor
- Date Created/Published: [Illinois] : WPA, [1942]
- Medium: 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color.
- Summary: Poster showing a man lying on the sidewalk next
to an automobile crashed into a lamp post.
- Title: Don't jay walk Watch your step.
- Creator(s): Posoff,
Isadore, artist
- Date Created/Published: Pennsylvania : WPA Federal Art
Project, [1936 or 1937]
- Medium: 1 print (poster) : woodcut, color.
- Summary: Poster encouraging pedestrians to obey the
laws, showing a man being hit by an automobile while crossing the street, a
policeman stands in the background.
- Title: Federal Theatre [presents] "It might happen to
you" A drama in three acts by Leon Lord : The most powerful courtroom drama ever
written.
- Date Created/Published: [California : Federal Art
Project, 1939]
- Medium: 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color.
- Summary: Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation
of "It Might Happen to You" at the Savoy Theatre, showing a woman hit by an
automobile.
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