A silkscreened invitation to the people’s park, made by artists on the public payroll in the middle of the Depression. The WPA poster division turned silkscreen into a fine-art print medium at national scale — art for everyone, about places that belong to everyone. The flat, confident inks; the registration of a handful of screens doing the work of a painting. The parks belonged to everyone. So did the art.

Maker: C. Don Powell
Date: 1938
Medium of the original: Travel poster
Original held by: Library of Congress
Credit: Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00854

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 10 in	532	Excellent	Trimmed 7.8%
8 x 12 in	480	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
11 x 14 in	386	Excellent	Trimmed 6.1%
12 x 16 in	354	Excellent	Trimmed 1.6%
12 x 18 in	320	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
16 x 20 in	266	Excellent	Trimmed 7.8%
16 x 24 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
18 x 24 in	236	Excellent	Trimmed 1.6%
20 x 30 in	192	Good	Trimmed 9.7%
24 x 30 in	177	Good	Trimmed 7.8%
24 x 36 in	160	Good	Trimmed 9.7%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
30 x 40 in	141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	118 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

4,256 x 5,767 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 31, lights 205 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

13.61

Notes