Wednesday, July 15, 2015

WPA Milk Posters

Classic posters from the Library of Congress.



Title: Milk - for health, good teeth, vitality, endurance, strong bones
Related Names:
   Federal Art Project , sponsor
Date Created/Published: Ohio : WPA Art Program, [19]40.
Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Summary: Poster for Cleveland Division of Health promoting milk, showing a large bottle of milk next to couples smiling, playing golf, tennis, and two babies.










Title: Milk - for summer thirst
Date Created/Published: [Ohio : Federal Art Project, 19]40.
Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Summary: Poster for Cleveland Division of Health promoting milk, showing a young man holding a glass of milk with the sun shining in the background.








Title: Milk - for warmth Energy food.
Related Names:
   Federal Art Project , sponsor
Date Created/Published: Ohio : WPA Art Program, [19]41.
Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Summary: Poster for Cleveland Division of Health promoting milk, showing a woman wearing winter clothing holding a glass of milk.







Title: A good lunch - one hot dish, meat, vegetables - sandwich - fruit - milk WPA school lunch.
Related Names:
   Federal Art Project , sponsor
Date Created/Published: Oklahoma : WPA Oklahoma Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]
Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Summary: Poster promoting good eating habits in school.










Title: Eat these every day
Related Names:
   Federal Art Project , sponsor
Date Created/Published: NYC : NYC WPA War Services, [between 1941 and 1943]
Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Summary: Poster promoting consumption of healthy foods, showing dairy products (milk, cheese), eggs, fruit, vegetables, bread and cereal, and meat.









Title: Give to the needy Join the mayor's welfare milk fund : Monster vaudeville show at the Laurel Theatre.
Date Created/Published: [New York City] : WPA Federal Art Project, Dis. 4, [between 1936 and 1939]
Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Summary: Poster announcing vaudeville show to raise funds for the needy through New York City Mayor Edwards' milk fund, showing a large bottle of milk.






Title: Milk truckers do not! pick up milk at farms where there are cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, spinal meningitis, smallpox, typhoid Report all cases on your route to .... Food and Drug Administration [sic].
Related Names:
   Federal Art Project , sponsor
Date Created/Published: Ohio : WPA Art Program, [between 1936 and 1940]
Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Summary: Poster encouraging truck drivers to report to proper authorities cases of communicable diseases encountered on their routes.


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