The WPA & the Golden Age · The Public Good
Help Your Neighborhood — WPA Public Health Poster
Tenement House Dept. of the City of New York, WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen, 1936
What it is
A WPA Federal Art Project poster for the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, urging residents to keep their buildings clean.
Why it matters
Public health, safety, and housing posters were the FAP’s second great subject after the parks — the New Deal made a civic instruction into a printed object worth keeping.
What to notice
A city skyline reduced to the same flat geometric shorthand the FAP used for mountains.
The city, cared for the way the wilderness was.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Printer / house
- WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen shop
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Tenement House Dept. of the City of New York, WPA Federal Art Project silkscreen, 1936
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons mirror) · LCCN 98513680
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. No exact "Keep Your City Clean"-titled WPA poster was found on Commons or loc.gov — this is the closest real, well-documented match (NYC Tenement House Dept. sanitation campaign, 1936–37) and the piece’s title/copy has been corrected to match the actual scan rather than the placeholder title.
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 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
