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Our friend / Ben Shahn. – Historic Reproduction

Our friend / Ben Shahn., National Citizens Political Action Committee, [1944] — vintage poster
Our friend / Ben Shahn., National Citizens Political Action Committee, [1944]. Vintage poster from the Presidents 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Our friend / Ben Shahn.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Our friend / Ben Shahn.

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Titled "Our Friend," this color lithograph was produced for the National Citizens Political Action Committee, a group with close ties to organized labor that worked to mobilize voters for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 reelection campaign. Ben Shahn, a painter and graphic artist known for his social realist work, created it in the last year of Roosevelt's life, when the president was seeking a fourth term. The record also links the poster to African American political activity and union organizing, themes that were central to the coalition supporting Roosevelt and worth noting in how the image presents ordinary voters as the president's allies.

Created / publishedNational Citizens Political Action Committee, [1944]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.
GenrePosters American 1940-1950.Lithographs Color 1940-1950.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. H1. 1944. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2002.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945. African Americans--Political activity--1940-1950. Labor unions--United States--1940-1950. Children & adults--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,463 × 1,180 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218589

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