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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
Expecting? Get the Right Advice from the Right Sources
WPA Federal Art Project, New York, 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 showing a stork: 'Expecting? Get the right advice from the right sources, your doctor or health bureau.' Board, 56 by 35.7 cm, stamped Sep 2 1938.
Why it matters
One of the New York Federal Art Project's maternal-health posters, made the same season as the Krause series.
What to notice
One word, then a question mark. The stork answers it.
Prenatal care, asked politely.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- WPA Federal Art Project, New York, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · POS - WPA - NY .01 .E7983, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]; LCCN 98513524; ppmsca 38337
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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