KATHERINE MILHOUS (1894 - 1977)

Pennsylvania / The Little Red Schoolhouse.
Woodcut poster. 603x489 mm; 23¾x19¼ inches. Pennsylvania Art Project, WPA, stamped in lower left margin. Circa 1936.

Milhous, an illustrator who won the Caldecott award in 1951 for "The Egg Tree" was, herself, of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. This fondly reminiscent image of the era of little red school houses, is one of a series of at least eight posters she designed for the Pennsylvania Works Progress Administration, all having to do with local, rural, Pennsylvania Dutch culture.

Posters for the People p. 93, Library of Congress LC-USZC2-5670.

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