Help Your Neighborhood — WPA Public Health Poster
WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen shop, 1936
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 170 dpi, good. Trimmed 1.1% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A WPA Federal Art Project poster for the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, urging residents to keep their buildings clean. Public health, safety, and housing posters were the FAP’s second great subject after the parks — the New Deal made a civic instruction into a printed object worth keeping. A city skyline reduced to the same flat geometric shorthand the FAP used for mountains. The city, cared for the way the wilderness was.
- Maker
- WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen shop
- Date
- 1936
- Medium of the original
- Advertising poster
- Original held by
- Library of Congress
- Credit
- Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00860
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 341 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.1% |
| 12 x 18 in | 227 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.1% |
| 16 x 24 in | 170 | Good | Trimmed 1.1% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 136 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 68 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,760 x 4,096 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 18, lights 179 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.62
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Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
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