Keep Your Fire Escapes Clear

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Title:	Keep Your Fire Escapes Clear
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Language:	English
Subject:	Prints & Photographs, Tenement Houses, Safety
Collections:	Photography Collection
Historic Publication Date:	1936-1937
Publisher:	Library of Congress


Citation APA MLA Chicago Keep Your Fire Escapes Clear. (1936-1937). Keep Your Fire Escapes Clear. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Description: The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia, with the strongest representation from California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The results of one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts, the posters were added to the Library's holdings in the 1940s.

Summary
Poster for the Tenement House Department of the City of New York advising that tenement house residents keep their fire escapes free of obstructions.