2010.54.11596

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The Melting Pot
The Melting Pot
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.
2010.54.11596

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 is a collage of images related to immigration. There is a scene of a market, a ship with families, the Statue of Liberty and men working in a workshop. At the bottom right of the poster is text that reads: The Melting Pot. Below this title are two columns of text that reads: "Millions of immigrants fled famine and suppression to come / to the "land of opportunity" in the 1800''s. They found / sweat shop conditions in tenement factories working 14 and / 16 hours a day. The "melting pot" of America soon turned / many of these immigrants into the founders of American / unions".
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