ORIGINAL WPA NATIONAL PARK POSTERS
Zion National Park. Circa Mar 1939
Although the Works Progress Administration (WPA) program undertaken by the Western Museum Laboratories (WML) created thousands of silkscreened posters between 1938 and 1941, only about 40 park posters and a couple of others are known to survive. They are rare and iconic symbols.
The Zion poster features a pink and purple Great White Throne rock formation, with trees at its base, against a blue sky. This Ranger Naturalist Service poster advertises field trips, campfire programs, natural history talks, exhibits, and general information. The stylized DOI seal (Department of Interior) appears to have some letters around its border, rather than random marks. However, they are not discernible.
Only two surviving examples of this poster. One is in the Library of Congress. The other can be found in the National Park Service History Collection archive.
Our sources of information, research and archival poster image included the Library of Congress, from the museum collections of the Parks, as well as from The National Park Service Archivist.
Our Giclee prints are created to look like the original, as if you wandered into a vintage store and saw it hanging on the wall with an aged patina that only the vestige of time can impart.
We lightly restore and enhance the images so that their essence is evoked for display in your home, office, mountain cabin, or lake house.
We print the entire image as it was created many years ago. That means we also reproduce the artworks aged patina, subtle imperfections, and signs of aging.
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