Federal Theatre Project Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
Federal Theatre Project Poster: Object Name: poster. Physical Description: paper (overall material). Physical Description: ink (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
Poster for the 50th Anniversary of the Federal Theatre Project. The Federal Theatre Project was in place from 1935 to 1939 and was a New Deal program to fund theater and other live performances and entertainment in the United States during the Great Depression.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: poster
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 19 1/2 in x 15 in; 49.53 cm x 38.1 cm
- general subject association: Theater
- ID Number: 2010.3057.02
- nonaccession number: 2010.3057
- catalog number: 2010.0357.02
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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