Showing posts with label Handle With Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handle With Care. Show all posts

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Handle With Care, a WPA safe driving poster from 1943

By Jack Brummet, Arts Editor

This excellent silkscreen poster was created by the Missouri W.P.A. Art Project in 1943 to promote safe driving.  I like the austere but stylized traffic signal and steering wheel, and, of course, the rocking primary colors.  It is in the collection of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. and is reproduced by permission. . .because we, the people, paid for it.

click to enlarge
---o0o---