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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 Public Good
Don't Fear Cancer, Fight It! by Jerome Henry Rothstein
Jerome Henry Rothstein · WPA, New York, with the U.S. Public Health Service, 1938
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 WPA silkscreen poster: 'Don't fear cancer, fight it!', directing readers to the U.S. Public Health Service and the American Society for the Control of Cancer, 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York. Stamped Sep 2 1938.
Why it matters
The record credits Jerome Henry Rothstein and the Federal Theatre Project in New York.
What to notice
Fear and fight: the headline sets one verb against the other.
Courage, asked of a whole city.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- Jerome Henry Rothstein
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- WPA, New York, with the U.S. Public Health Service, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · POS - WPA - NY .R68, no. 16 (C size) [P&P]; LCCN 98518521; ds 14942
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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