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Types of Art

 

Buttons, Badges & Ribbons
cover Proclaiming membership or voicing opinion, buttons can make an impression.

 

Cartoon Art
cover Cartoon art on labor issues, often with satiric humor.

Leaflets & Pamphlets
cover Graphic arts and stirring words in skilled combination.

 

Murals
cover Wall paintings that memorialize dramatic events in the history of working people.

Photographs
cover See the section on Photography.

 

Song Books & Sheet Music
cover The best known and most widely practiced art form of the labor movement.


Themes

 

Civil Rights
cover Images from the 1920s through the 1990s about the efforts to win fair treatment for black citizens.

 

Parades and Demonstrations
cover Workers take to the streets to tell their story.

Strikes
cover Labor's weapon of last resort.

 

Union Square
cover A national historic landmark where workers exercised their rights to free speech and assembly.

Workers at Work
cover Images of people actually on the job.

 

Labor Defender 
cover Covers from the monthly publication of the International Labor Defense.


Time Periods

 

Pre-1920s
cover Labor Arts objects from the early part of the century.

 

1920s
cover The Roaring Twenties:  Boom and Bust!

1930s
cover A New Deal for labor and the nation.

 

1940s - 1950s
cover Labor in the hot and cold wars.

1960s - 1970s
cover The Civil and Women's Rights Era.

 

1980s - 1990s
cover On the brink of the new millennium.