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The WPA & the Golden Age · The Public Good
Free Classes: Trade and Technical
Adult Education Project, WPA, and the New York Board of Education, 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 announcing free adult classes from the Adult Education Project, W.P.A. and the Board of Education: 'Day and evening classes free to any person over 17 years old. Register now.' Board, 55.7 by 35.5 cm.
Why it matters
Adult education was one of the plainest WPA promises: a trade, taught free.
What to notice
The age limit is on the poster, and so is the call: register now.
A second chance, offered on a wall.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Adult Education Project, WPA, and the New York Board of Education, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · POS - WPA - NY .01 .F7435, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]; LCCN 98513643; ppmsca 51994
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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