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Title: Better housing The solution to infant mortality in the slums / / Benj. Sheer. Creator(s): Sheer, Benjamin, artist Date Created/Published: [New York : Federal Art Project, 1936] Medium: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. Summary: Poster promoting better housing as a solution for high rates of infant mortality in the slums, showing a blueprint of new housing next to existing tenement buildings over which stands the figure of Death. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-5647 (color film copy slide) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: POS - WPA - NY .S54, no. 1 (C size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Date stamped on verso: Dec 18 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor - Langdon W. Post, Comm. Subjects: New York City Housing Authority--Public relations--1930-1940. Infants--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Death--1930-1940. Slums--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. City planning--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Housing--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Format: Posters--1930-1940. Screen prints--Color--1930-1940. Collections: Posters: WPA Posters Bookmark This Record:

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