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Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment
1978
21 in HIGH x 17.5 in WIDE
(53.34 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.896

Bottom edge under drawing has, "peg averill 20 March 1978" in red ink.
Right corner under drawing has, "peg averill/ Liberation News Service" printed in black. Bottom edge has "War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012 (212) 228-0405." Bottom right corner has a small union label for The Print Shop, I.U. 450.





Poster has a light orange background with black and white drawings and black text. On the left is a man being hanged and on the right is a person sitting in an electric chair. Above the figures reads, "Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment." The Print Shop was a Smithtown, N.Y., IWW movement shop with typesetting and presses capable of 17 1/2 x 22 1/2". [LMC]
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