Those of you who are at all familiar with the Depression can easily recognize the kind of graphic art produced during the 1930s and early 1940s. If you are interested in adding some visual flair either to your Then-and-Now post or to the course collaborative sight, I suggest incorporating this style. I’ve posted some examples below, but there’s a much wider array of this stuff available from the Library of Congress and other government sites. I’ll put this link in our Resources tab too.

This is an interesting article that appeared in this morning’s New York Times. It details how the University of California, Berkeley, mistakenly “deacquisitioned” an important piece of art by the Works Progress Administration sculptor Sargent Johnson. Johnson became well known during the Harlem Renaissance.