PBA Galleries

2 Posters: Illinois / First Conservation Week / May 10-16, 1936; and Illinois / Second Conservation Week / May 9-15, 1937. Both 14x22", printed in colors with handsome  Art Deco graphics.

Two posters with handsome Art Deco graphics of birds (Chicago, 1936-37). Hoping to create “conservation consciousness in the minds of the people” – especially sportsmen - the Illinois state Department of Conservation sponsored these events to focus on forestry and wildlife preservation during the Depression era, and to highlight the work of the Roosevelt New Deal’s Civilian Conservations Corps. These posters, in WPA Federal Art Project style, are apparently rare; no copy of either appears in the poster holdings of the Library of Congress.