The WPA (Works Progress Administration) hired artists for public projects, including this one advertising the availability of classes for adults at a local high school outside of Chicago.
WPA Poster
New Trier Evening School, Classes for Adults
The poster illustrates a home economics course, popularized in the early 20th century as scientific and social science principles were applied to work in the home.
WPA Poster, Unknown Artist
Image © 2010 by Dover Publications, Inc.
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