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Push me, mister : register and vote – Antique Print

Push me, mister : register and vote, [between 1965 and 1980] — vintage poster
Push me, mister : register and vote, [between 1965 and 1980]. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A window into the past: Push me, mister : register and vote, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The phrase "Push me, mister" gives this poster its particular character, a playful line that turns a childlike request into a nudge toward the ballot box. Posters like this belong to the voter registration drives of the late 1960s and 1970s, when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had opened the polls to many Black Southerners and the 26th Amendment, ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age to 18. Campaigns of this kind aimed to bring newly eligible young people and first-time voters into the process. The catalog record offers little about its sponsor or printer, so its exact origin remains uncertain.

Created / published[between 1965 and 1980]
Medium1 print (poster)
GenrePosters American.Prints.
NotesGift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. jj / 850815.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,816 × 4,736 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-223505

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