Katherine Milhous, the creator of this poster, was a newspaper illustrator and book designer of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. She was an artist for the Federal Art Program in Pennsylvania during the Depression and produced a colorful series of posters representing rural Pennsylvania.

She attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was author/illustrator of "The Egg Tree," a 1951 Caldecott Medal book, "Lovina: A story of the Pennsylvania Country, Snow Over Bethlehem" and other stories. She illustrated "The Silver Pencil" by Alice Dalgliesh, a 1945 Newbery honor book, and won the 1967 Drexel Award, among other honors.

The Ephrata Cloister is a national historic landmark, located in Central Pennsylvania's Lancaster County. One of America's earliest religious communities, the Cloister was founded in 1732 by German settlers seeking spiritual goals, rather than earthly rewards. They became known for their music, calligraphy and printing.

Members continued to live and worship at the Cloister until 1934. In 1941, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acquired the historic site and began a program of restoration and interpretation.

The "By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943" collection of the Library of Congress, consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize a wide variety of public programs from art to safety. Seventeen states were involved as well as the District of Columbia. The posters were made possible by one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts and were added to the Library's holdings in the 1940s.

Created/Published : Federal Art Project, WPA, Pennsylvania, between 1936 and 1941

Creator : Katherine Milhous, Artist, 1894 - 1977

Part of the Work Projects Administration Poster Collection housed in the Prints & Photograph Division of the Library of Congress

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