WPA Poster

From Canoes: A Natural History in North America by Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims

Creator(s)	Nicholson, Frank S.
Subjects	History Cultural Studies Literature Native American Studies Regional Studies
Date	ca. 1936–1940
Related Section	Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
Keywords	National Parks environmentalism
Content Type	illustration
Language	English
Citable Link	Citable Link

Rightsholder	Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Copyright Status	in-copyright
Rights Granted	non-exclusive, world-wide, perpetual
Credit Line	Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-1015.
Holding Contact	Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

File Format	tiff (Tagged Image File Format)
File Size	33.9 MB
Width	3062
Height	3862
Mime Type	image/tiff
Last Modified	2023-03-13T03:02:07Z
Original Checksum	073240946b75fd78e42ebaad0cfe5bee

Frank S. Nicholson, poster for the National Park Service, c. 1936–1940. This poster is from the NYC Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which sponsored artists of almost all stripes during the Great Depression. Nicholson was among almost ten thousand artists who were supported by the WPA’s Federal Art Project.

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