Looking for something to occupy your lunch hour, or perhaps the 10:30 pre-lunch break? A reader sends along a link to the newly revised Library of Congress digital archives, with pages and pages and pages of WPA posters. If you're interested in the designs of the era, you'll enjoy. It's here.
The images are interesting enough, but there's always 30s-specific details that remind you how different the era was from its predecessor. We had a Federal Symphony Orchestra? And I love this one, which seeks to eliminate crime in the slums through better housing - the criminal is made out of shapes that remind you of the giant high rises built to replace the old brick slums.
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