Flip to Recreational music class, Harrisburg Central High School, Harrisburg, PA, May 14, 1935.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy Library of Congress
During the 1930s, thousands of artists employed by the WPA's Federal Art Project (FAP) created several hundred thousand pieces of publicly-funded art, including thousands of murals in public buildings all across the country, and posters on labor, education, travel, and a host of other subjects. Working for the FAP, Philadelphian Katharine Milhous produced a series of posters on rural Pennsylvania, including this one on Pennsylvania German crafts. Milhous would go on to become an award-winning writer and illustrator of children's books, including Lovina: A story of the Pennsylvania Country, and Snow Over Bethlehem.
