2010.54.11579

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A New Birth of Freedom
A New Birth of Freedom
1962
18.75 in HIGH x 22 in WIDE
(47.62 cm HIGH x 55.88 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.11579

Bottom left: UAW" logo". | Bottom right: Allied Printing Union Label" logo 99". | Bottom right of image: "John Z. Gelsavage / 1951". | On back: "Additional copies of / UAW "This Union Cause" Posters / may be obtained from / UAW Education Department / 8000 East jefferson Avenue / Detroit 14, Michigan / Price, $3.25 per set / "Allied Printing Union Label" logo 99 / (c) 1962 International Union - UAW".





Poster is printed on white paper. Poster is a collage of images from the Civil War. In the background is a war scene, at the left is an image of Abraham Lincol, at the left is a group of African American men, women and children. Two of the men appear to be soldiers. Below the image is text that reads: "A New Birth Of Freedom". Below the title are two columns of text that reads: "The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln / resulted in a "new birth of freedom," but it came while the / nation from north to south was devastated by civil war. / Lincoln believed that "labor is the superior of capital and / deserves much higher consideration," but did not live to see that his high ideals were carried out.".
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