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Katherine Milhous · Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, 1938
What it is
Katherine Milhous shows a pair of angels dropping flowers above the Ephrata Cloister, the eighteenth-century pietist community in Lancaster County.
Why it matters
The Library of Congress dates the poster only to a range, between 1936 and 1941, and records that the sheet was signed in pencil by the artist. The symmetrical angels and the flower-strewn field lean directly on Pennsylvania-German fraktur convention, the decorated-manuscript tradition Milhous spent her career translating into print.
What to notice
Two angels scatter flowers over the Ephrata Cloister — Milhous at her most fraktur.
Made by artists on the public payroll — art the country already owned.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- Katherine Milhous
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 98518744 (digital ID cph.3f05667)
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
