Tuberculosis Tests
Elizabeth Olds (1896-1991)
Tuberculosis Tests for Children,
1934
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of Ben and Beatrice Goldstein (104.1)
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Elizabeth Olds created Tuberculosis Tests for Children
as part of a series of prints about the Roosevelt administration's
assistance to the unemployed during the Depression in Omaha. Having
trained in Minneapolis and New York, she became the first woman
awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1925) to paint. In 1932, while
working for the Omaha Public Works of Art Project, she learned
lithography, from grinding the stones to cranking the press. Later,
she was a member of the silkscreen unit of the Works Progress
Administration (WPA) in New York. Following WWII, Olds wrote and
illustrated children's books.
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