2010.54.11592

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The Colonial Days
The Colonial Days
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.
2010.54.11592

Bottom left: UAW" logo". | Bottom right: Allied Printing Union Label" logo 99". | Bottom right of image: "John Z. Gelsavage / 1957". 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 depicts a scene on a boat dock. Men and women are disembarking from a ship at the left. At the right a man is standing on a platform with his hands behind his back. To his side is a man making saying something to the crowd below him. In the background are three ships. At the bottom right of the poster is text that reads: "The Colonial Days". Below this title are two columns of text that reads: "Indentured servents came to American bu the thousands in colonial days and worked out the price of their passage as / "bound servents" to the highest bidder. Few of them found / the "streets of gold" which had been promised them; instead / most found years of hardship and privation while working / out their debt.".
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