Be Wise Don't Play With Firecrackers Planting Photographed by Gordon Parks in

Photographed by Gordon Parks in May of 1943 on 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches film as part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

These lush flowers are abundant in summer and through the fall

Origional color silkscreen published by the Illinois : Federal Art Project

Minneapolis

May 29th 1888

Be Wise Don't Play With Firecrackers Planting Photographed by Gordon Parks inBe wise Don't play with firecrackers : Department of Health, New York City. Art created by Vera Bock as part fo the Federal Art Project, FAP in 1936 or 1937 as a color silkscreen. Summary: Poster warning of the dangers of playing with firecrackers, showing the face of a boy with an injured eye. This does remind me of a childhood of M80's, bottle rockets and roman candles. Lucky to still have all my fingers.