The WPA & the Golden Age · Reading & the Stage
Snow White and the seven dwarfs
Aida McKenzie · Federal Theatre Project / Work Projects Administration, 1938
What it is
Aida McKenzie's poster shows Snow White beside a prince, ringed by the seven dwarfs, silkscreened in flat colour on board.
Why it matters
The Library of Congress dates it only as between 1936 and 1941, with a March 24, 1941 date stamp on the verso. The digitisation of this sheet was supported by Wikimedia UK. The story itself is a Grimm fairy tale long out of copyright, and this is a WPA stage poster, not a film one.
What to notice
Snow White, a prince and all seven dwarfs crowded into one hand-screened WPA sheet.
Made by artists on the public payroll — art the country already owned.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- Aida McKenzie
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- Federal Theatre Project / Work Projects Administration, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 98518602 (cph.3f05641)
Live trademark
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS — registered as a trademark by The Walt Disney Company for entertainment goods and services; sell only as a WPA-era historical poster and never with Disney branding, film imagery, or wording implying a Disney connection — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
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 2026-07-18.
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
