AFL-CIO : merger! – Historic Print
![AFL-CIO : merger!, [between 1965 and 1980] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/89/89297e900110-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with AFL-CIO : merger!, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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AFL-CIO : merger!
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Walter Reuther and George Meany are the two figures this poster's subject headings name, and the word "merger" in its title points to the reunification they helped bring about. The AFL and CIO had split in the 1930s over how to organize workers, and they came back together in 1955 at a convention in New York City that formed the AFL-CIO, with Meany as its first president. This reproduction of a painting belongs to a series called *This Union Cause*, a campaign that used commissioned art to make the case for organized labor. The catalog dates it only to a range between 1965 and 1980, so it was likely printed well after the merger itself.
| Created / published | [between 1965 and 1980] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) |
| Genre | 1957." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software |
| Notes | Evidently one of a series entitled This union cause." Reproduction of a painting |
| Subjects | Reuther, Walter,--1907-1970. Meany, George,--1894- AFL-CIO Labor unions. Meetings.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,735 × 3,778 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222383 |
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