The WPA & the Golden Age · See America / The Parks
Fort Marion National Monument, St. Augustine — WPA Federal Art Project
C. Don Powell · WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen, National Park Service, 1938
What it is
A See America travel poster for Fort Marion National Monument, St. Augustine, Florida — the same 1938 WPA/NPS series as the Yellowstone and Grand Canyon pieces.
Why it matters
The Ranger Naturalist Service sold every kind of public land the same way: a Spanish colonial fort got the identical confident flat-ink treatment as a wilderness park.
What to notice
The fort’s star-shaped bastion walls reduced to a single hard-edged silhouette.
History and wilderness, sold from the same print shop.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- C. Don Powell
- Printer / house
- WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen shop
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen, National Park Service, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons mirror) · LC-DIG-ppmsca-13396 (LCCN 2007676130)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government program work (WPA Federal Art Project), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-17.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
