The Federal Art Project division of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) employed numerous artists, musicians, actors and other creative sorts in a effort to help many survive the Great Depression of the 1930s.

One of the posters created by this project was for a “Card Party and Barter Benefit” with proceeds going toward the Nassau Art Teachers Benefit Fund - taking place at the Coca-Cola plant in Rockville Centre, New York.

East Village JNL was derived from this poster, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.