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WPA Posters: Community Center Free - Everybody Welcome.
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Poster promoting use of community centers for such activities as "athletic activities, cultural groups, arts and crafts, music and dancing, library and forum," as well as meeting rooms for club meetings; poster shows musical instruments, tools, and sports equipment.

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WPA Posters: Congenital Syphilis is Preventable If Syphilitic Mothers Will Take Adequate Treatment During The Last Five Months of Pregnancy : New York State Department of Health
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Poster for New York State Department of Health promoting proper treatment for syphilis for pregnant women, showing woman holding a baby. Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939.

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WPA Posters: Cradle Snatchers Cradle Snatching! at Pickering Park Playhouse.
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Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Cradle Snatchers" at the Pickering Park Playhouse, San Bernardino, Calif., showing an old woman holding a man in her arms next to a cradle.

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WPA Posters: Craft School Pottery, Modeling, Weaving, Painting, Drawing, Woodcarving, Sewing, Needlework, Metalwork, Photography
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Poster for WPA Federal Art Project sponsored art and craft classes offered at the Henry Street Settlement, 265 Henry Street, New York City. Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939.

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WPA Posters: Curb Service 10,000 Current Books - Convenient, Free, Time Saving : Chicago Public Library, Randolph St. Corridor.
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Poster for bookmobile service of the Chicago Public Library, showing a traffic light. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941.

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WPA Posters: Cure Juvenile Delinquency in The Slums by Planned Housing
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Poster promoting planned housing as a method to deter juvenile delinquency, showing silhouettes of a child stealing a piece of fruit and a child involved in armed robbery. Date stamped on verso: Oct 20 1936. New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor - Langdon W. Post, Comm. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 220

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WPA Posters: Cuyahoga County Opera Association And Federal Music Project Present "Girofl’Š Girofla" by Charles Le Coq Comic Opera.
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Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of "GiroflĚŠ Girofla" at the Holy Family Auditorium, E. 131 St. and Chapleside. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1938.

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WPA Posters: Cuyahoga County Opera Association And Federal Music Project Present "Girofl’Š Girofla" by Charles Le Coq Comic Opera.
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Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of "GiroflĚŠ Girofla" at the Alliance of Poles Hall, 6964 Broadway. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1938.

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WPA Posters: Dedication, Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City, June 28, 1942
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Poster for dedication of Will Rogers Field, showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Will Rogers, facing slightly left. Date stamped on verso: Jul 7 1941.

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WPA Posters: Defense! Long Island Women : Home Defense Day : Exhibits - Demonstrations - Lectures - Drills - Music
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Poster announcing activities related to home defense held at Adelphi College, Garden City, New York, showing figure of Liberty standing before American flag. Date stamped on verso: May 14 1941.

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WPA Posters: Department of Public Recreation Presents Sioux Citys [sic] 1940 Music Week Bands, Choirs, Choruses, Quartets, Orchestras.
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Poster announcing the Sioux City Dept. of Public Recreation presentation of music week at Central High. Date stamped on verso: May 9 1940.

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WPA Posters: Dept of Parks Water Carnival Music, Dancing, Singing.
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Poster announcing water carnival in Central Park, showing man standing in a gondola, playing stringed instrument, and singing. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 185

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WPA Posters: Detroit Federal Theatre Unit of Michigan Works Progress Administration Presents "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis
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Poster for Detroit Federal Theatre Project presentation of "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis at the Lafayette Theatre, showing a stylized Adolf Hitler carrying a rifle standing behing a map of the United States and a fist in a raised-arm salute. Exhibit loan 4165-L.

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WPA Posters: Devil's Disciple
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Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Devil's Disciple" at the Federal Theatre Playhouse, Tulane & Miro, showing a cartoon drawing of a head in profile with a halo.

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WPA Posters: Diphtheria Strikes Unprotected Children Protect Your Child With Toxoid--Toxoid Prevents Diptheria : Chicago Department of Health.
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Poster for the Chicago Department of Health, showing a flying disc "Toxoid" preventing a lightning bolt from striking a child. Date stamped on verso: Mar 20 1941.

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