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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
Czechoslovaks for Hoover's Children's Relief Committee, Poster by Vojtěch Preissig, 1918
Vojtěch Preissig (1873-1944) · Relief poster, Wentworth Institute no. 20, 1918
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A 1918 poster for Czechoslovaks supporting Hoover's children's relief committee. A girl stands before an American flag with bags and baskets of produce. It is 97 by 63 cm.
Why it matters
The Library of Congress record says it was designed, cut and printed at the School of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Wentworth Institute, Boston, as Wentworth poster number 20.
What to notice
The poster speaks to Czech Americans in the year their homeland became a state.
An emigrant community feeding the old country.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Vojtěch Preissig (1873-1944)
- Printer / house
- School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Wentworth Institute, Boston
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Relief poster, Wentworth Institute no. 20, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719434
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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