American democracy--Private enterprise - and they said our system was crumbling! – Historic Print
(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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American democracy--Private enterprise - and they said our system was crumbling!
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The title is a jab at the Axis powers: "and they said our system was crumbling!" The poster sets American democracy and private enterprise against the authoritarian states of the early 1940s, and its subject tags point to statues of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator whose government collapsed in July 1943. Printed around 1943 by Kelly-Read & Co. of Rochester, New York, for the Thinkamerican Institute, it belongs to a wave of home-front posters that linked free enterprise and industrial output to the war effort. Such images were meant to reassure Americans that their economic system was a source of strength while the country mobilized.
| Created / published | c1943. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Copyright by Kelly-Read & Co., Inc., Rochester, N.Y. No. 206. Thinkamerican Institute poster. |
| Subjects | Mussolini, Benito,--1883-1945--Statues. World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Economic & political systems--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,456 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216838 |
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