A Monthly check to you for the rest of your life, beginning when you are 65 ... / Newman. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of A Monthly check to you for the rest of your life, beginning when you are 65 ... / Newman.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A Monthly check to you for the rest of your life, beginning when you are 65 ... / Newman.
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A promise printed in large type, a monthly check for the rest of your life starting at age 65, anchors this 1935 color lithograph from the Social Security Board. Signed into law that August, the Social Security Act created a federal old-age insurance program funded by payroll contributions from workers and employers, and the board needed to explain an unfamiliar system to a skeptical public. Posters like this one carried that message into post offices, factories and public buildings. Benefit payments did not begin until 1940, so the image asked Americans to trust a pension that was still years away.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Washington |
| Notes | [Washington, D.C. : Social Security Board, 1935] |
| Subjects | United States.--Social Security Board--Public relations--1930-1940. Social security--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,149 × 1,479 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218736 |
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