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Auction History Result 9k002 AAA FARM PROGRAM 42x120 special poster 1930s helps farmers hold soil for the nation, rare! Date Sold 9/7/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded Special Poster (measures 42" x 119 1/2" [107 x 304 cm]) (Learn More) AAA Farm Program, the 1930s poster ("Our country - Let's conserve it"; "AAA Farm Program helps farmers hold the soil for the nation") promoting the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and featuring art of a farming family looking over a small town with ghostly images of American history in the sky. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a 1933 United States federal law (instigated by Franklin D. Roosevelt) of the New Deal era, designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. It was replaced by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 after the previous act was found to be unconstitutional. Both of these Acts were very controversial, because while they DID drastically raise the price of commodities for farmers (and boost their incomes), it also meant that the government was buying up surpluses and destroying it, which meant that they were actively burning crops and killing livestock while there were many throughout the United States who were starving! The 1938 revision put in price controls on food so that farmers would be limited in how much money they could make, but this too was controversial, because it did not put price controls on feed and other items needed to raise their livestock, so some farmers were squeezed out of existence by raised costs vs controlled prices on sales. We would think this poster was likely created after 1933 and before 1938, but it is possible it was created after 1938, when the second Act was passed. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never auctioned this poster before! Note that this special poster was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Also note that the person who used this poster glued the pieces together before putting them on display (this is typical of many used posters in multiple pieces). Condition: very good. The person who used this poster glued the pieces together before putting them on display (this is typical of many used posters in multiple pieces). There are a few pinholes and creases around the edges. There is a relatively small number of tiny brown stains in the borders and a very few scattered in the image, but they are not very noticeable or distracting. There is a small tear in the blue area above the man's head. Overall, I would think this poster has survived in about as nice condition as one could hope, given its age and large size. Learn More about condition grades 
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