Encompassing a wide variety of topics, WPA posters were clear and simple advertisements that were aimed to help stimulate the economy. There were posters that advertised health and safety programs, the arts, tourism, community activities, and educational programs. Though they were found in seventeen states as well as Washington D.C, the most popular states were California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Out of the thirty-five thousand WPA poster designs made by artists, over two million WPA posters were printed between 1936 and 1943. Today, only about two thousand of the original silkscreen, lithograph and woodcut posters produced by the WPA are currently in existance. Out of the two thousand posters, about nine hundred of themare currently found at the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division, which is the largest collection of posters in the United States of America.
