Wandering around the net, I came across this cute set of vintage posters which, at the same time, shows a group of children harassing books and struggles to instruct deviant young readers, how to treat to those poor pages with care. Working for the Federal Works Project Administration (WPA), between 1936 & 1940, it was the artist Gregg Arlington who created these humorous and peculiar propagandistic illustrations about reading.
Check out the posters.
[courtesy of the Library of Congress]
WPA poster shows a boy walking on a book with gummed up feet and hands.
WPA poster shows a group of children holding a sign for the book club.
WPA poster shows a boy with an umbrella sitting on an open book.
WPA poster shows a boy doing a handstand on the spine of a book.
WPA poster shows a boy ironing down the page of a book.
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