DuPage County Centennial Flower Show Poster - A WPA Federal Art Project - December 2021
We made a stop at the Potbelly's in Willowbrook right off of Route 83 for lunch recently and sat underneath this poster that you see below. It advertises the DuPage County Centennial Flower Show in Hinsdale on June 9,10, 11. At the bottom it reads: "Presented by the Home Gardeners of DuPage County". It is in a lovely vintage frame. And, if you look even closer at the bottom, you'll see this copy that speaks to how the poster was created: "Made by WPA Federal Art Project, Chicago, Illinois". See below for a closeup of that section: Pretty cool, right? I mean...what could be better than a vintage poster that is both LOCAL and about something that I'm into (gardening). A quick spin around the Web and it wasn't hard to figure out the provenance of this poster. The Library of Congress has a listing for it and even dates it: Jun 22 1939. I'm guessing that's the day it was added to the collection, so my hunch is that it was sent to DC