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Vintage Travel & National Park Posters
Fort Marion National Monument WPA Poster, 1938
Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida — C. Don Powell for the National Park Service, WPA Federal Art Project
From the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection · 1938
$129Charged in USD at checkout; local currency shown for reference.
Source scan:LOC (Prints & Photographs, WPA Poster Collection). Rights statement of the archive: “No known restrictions on publication. Work Projects Administration poster — a work of the United States federal government, in the public domain.” Original poster: C. Don Powell, Ranger Naturalist Service (WPA), 1938, 1 print (poster) : screen, color ; 48 x 36 cm.. Verified 2026-09-13.
This product is a new archival print made from a restored scan of that poster. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.
The story of this poster
Fort Marion is the one national monument in the WPA park series, and the only sheet without a mountain in it. The fort is the Castillo de San Marcos, the Spanish coquina fortress begun in 1672 to guard St. Augustine; the United States renamed it for Francis Marion in 1821 and gave the Spanish name back in 1942, four years after this poster was printed.
Don Powell drew it from the water, the angled bastion and its sentry box rising over a moat and the bay in tan and mauve, with a live oak and a strip of sky in the studio’s flat greens and blues. The Department of the Interior and the National Park Service are lettered along the top, the fort along the bottom, in the same stencil alphabet as the rest of the Ranger Naturalist Service posters from the Western Museum Laboratories in Berkeley.
This is one of the harder sheets to find as an original. The Library of Congress copy has creases and worn edges, kept here, and its inks have been rebalanced without brightening. Restored from the archive’s 300-dpi master, not redrawn.
Printed to order on archival matte paper, framed in the country of delivery, and offered only at sizes that fit the sheet exactly.
Before and after
Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.
Restoration notes
Restoration: trimmed the mount board and scanner margins, balanced levels while keeping the silkscreen's flat inks and paper tone (90% of the original colour retained), removed dust and specks, and applied gentle sharpening. Creases, edge wear and registration slips of the original screen printing are kept where they belong to the object; nothing is redrawn.
Every print carries its archive credit on the packing slip. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn.
Pairs well with
Hang them together — 10% off the second framed print
Informational purposes only, no warranties, not professional advice. All products are new archival prints made from restored scans of historical maps held by public archives; they are not original antiques. Colours vary by screen and by paper.
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