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A Monthly Check to You for the Rest of Your Life, Beginning when you are 65 – Historic Reproduction

A Monthly Check to You for the Rest of Your Life, Beginning when you are 65, 1935 — vintage poster
A Monthly Check to You for the Rest of Your Life, Beginning when you are 65, 1935. Vintage poster from the U.S. Capitol collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A Monthly Check to You for the Rest of Your Life, Beginning when you are 65 comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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A Monthly Check to You for the Rest of Your Life is a 1935 color lithograph poster issued by the Social Security Board in Washington, D.C., and signed by the artist Newman. Its headline promised a lifetime pension starting at age 65, a message aimed at workers who were being asked to pay into the new federal program. The Social Security Act had been signed into law that August, and the board needed posters like this one to explain a system that many Americans found hard to grasp. Posters of this kind are worth noticing for how they turned a complex insurance scheme into a plain, direct promise.

Created / published1935
Mediumprint, poster. lithograph, color
NotesNewman. Washington, D.C. Social Security Board
Original scan2,303 × 3,536 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Reference1935 07216u

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