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KATHERINE MILHOUS (1894 - 1977)
Visit Pennsylvania / Pre-Revolutionary Costumes. Lithograph poster. 590x483 mm; 23¼x19 inches. Circa 1936. Pennsylvania Art Project, WPA, stamped in lower left margin.
"Katherine Milhous created some of the most distinctive posters produced by the WPA. She was a supervisor of the FAP [Federal Arts Project] in Philadelphia (her birthplace and lifelong home), from 1935-1940 . . . Her deep affection for the locality's history and people is apparent in her depictions of the Amish and Mennonites" (WPA p. 164). This is one of a series of at least eight posters she designed for the Pennsylvania Works Progress Administration, all having to do with rural Pennsylvania Dutch culture.
WPA 302, Poster for the People p. 74, Library of Congress LC-USZC2-1182.
