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Eliminate Crime In The Slums Through Housing

Eliminate Crime In The Slums Through Housing

Shared By: LibraryOfCongress Collection 12-12-2009

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• black
• white
• man
• gray
• hand
• eliminate
• poster
• gun
• buildings
• crime
• housing
• method
• backdrop
• slums
• tenement

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TITLE:  Eliminate crime in the slums through housing CALL NUMBER:  POS - WPA - NY .01 .E45, no. 1 (C size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC2-998 (color film copy slide) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Poster promoting planned housing as a method to deter crime in the slums, showing stylized man holding a gun against a backdrop of tenement buildings. MEDIUM:  1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [New York : Federal Art Project, 1936] NOTES: Date stamped on verso: Sep 12 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor - Langdon W. Post, Commissoner. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 221 SUBJECTS: New York City Housing Authority--Public relations--1930-1940. Crimes--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 3b48898 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48898 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003B-48898 (from color film copy slide) CONTROL #:  98518325