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Must We Always Have This? Why Not Housing?

Must We Always Have This? Why Not Housing?

Shared By: LibraryOfCongress Collection 12-12-2009

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TITLE:  Must we always have this? Why not housing? CALL NUMBER:  POS - WPA - NY .01 .M87, no. 1 (C size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC2-5629 (color film copy slide) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Poster promoting planned housing as the solution to a host of inner-city problems, showing an inkblot on which are drawn elements of inner-city life. MEDIUM:  1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [New York] : Federal Art Project, [1936] NOTES: Date stamped on verso: Oct 20 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). New York City Housing Authority - Langdon W. Post, Commissoner- Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor. SUBJECTS: New York City Housing Authority--Public relations--1930-1940. City & town life--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Slums--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. City planning--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Housing--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. FORMAT: Posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy slide) cph 3f05629 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05629 CONTROL #:  98518552