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The vacation reading club - join now at your public library by Unknown artist

The vacation reading club - join now at your public library

Unknown artist · between 1936 and 1939

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Palette

Indigo
 36% of the image
Blue · text contrast 9.4:1
Lemon
 20% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 12.6:1
Bone white
 19% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.1:1
Blue-grey
 12% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.9:1
Khaki
 12% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.7:1
Cinnamon
 0% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.0:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Unknown artist
Date
between 1936 and 1939
Type
Print
Medium
1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Place
Iowa
Period
20th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Blue · lightness 60, colourfulness 32

Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Library record. Public domain. United States: US federal government work (17 U.S.C. 105): item.created_published: "Iowa : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]". Not applicable: a US government work. Last checked 2026-10-31 (rights statement says no known restrictions: yes). Image: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; no known restrictions on publication. Licence rules

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