by KYW's Karin Phillips
How did America look after the last great economic crisis? A new poster exhibition gives visitors a look at that time.
In the National Constitution Center's Prosperity Hall, Depression and New Deal era music plays as a backdrop for hundreds of bright, stylized, colorful posters created by people who worked for the WPA, a federal work project that employed millions of people after the Great Depression.
So, is there a message for our times? Ennis Carter, of Design for Social Impact, says of course there is:
"It's kind of that idea that people pulled together during hard times, and that there's always an opportunity, there's always a great way to pull people together when there are problems and promote what joins us, what makes it possible to for us to live the American life that we live."
The exhibit, Posters for the People, will be at the National Constitution Center through January 3rd.
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