Exchange: Labor Movement and Workers Rights

Labor Movement and Workers Rights

Jacob Burck
The Lord Provides, from the "American Scene, Series 1"
lithograph on paper
12 x 9 in. (30.48 x 22.86 cm)
Museum Purchase

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Rockwell Kent
Workers of the World, Unite!
woodcut on paper
8 x 6 in. (20.32 x 15.24 cm); ;
Museum Purchase

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Two shadowed figures with weapons on the left face a group of four figures, in the light, on the right. Of the four, one is holding a sign and another is lying on the ground. Smoke from a fire billows in the background alongside industrial machinery.

Thomas Hart Benton
Mine Strike
lithograph on paper
9 3/16 in x 10 7/8 in (23.34 cm x 27.62 cm)
Museum Purchase

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Around and behind a central image of a sewing machine are overlapping images of people, ships, a building fire, the Statue of Liberty, and small blocks of text.

Ida Abelman
My Father Reminisces
lithograph on paper
14 9/16 in x 18 7/16 in (36.99 cm x 46.83 cm)
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects

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Young girl standing against a wood wall, a piece of white string in her mouth.

Dorothea Lange
Eight year old daughter who helps about the tobacco barn and takes care of the baby. Granville County, North Carolina
toned gelatin silver print on paper
10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (26.67 x 26.67 cm)
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction # (407697 - LCUSF34 - 2008E)

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A group of little girls sitting on the stairs in front of a school.

Dorothea Lange
Girls of Lincoln Bench School Studying their Reading Lessons, New Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon
toned gelatin silver print on paper
10 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. ( 26.67 cm x 26.67 cm )
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction # (407697, LCUSF34 - 21216E)

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A young girl seated on a wooden porch, hands up to her neck.

Dorothea Lange
The Eight-Year Old Daughter of a Tobacco Farmer
toned gelatin silver print on paper
10 in. x 10 in. ( 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm )
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction # (407697 - LCUSF34 - 17918

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A mixed media assemblage consisting of welding goggles, rusted metal, a padlock, and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws. The position of the objects, with goggles at the top, makes the assemblage look vaguely face-like.

George Vargas
Michigan Worker
welding goggles, metal, hanging bells, rusty bottle cap, pulleys, chains, and padlock mounted on plywood
20 7/8 in x 10 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in (53.02 cm x 26.35 cm x 6.51 cm);20 7/8 in x 10 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in (53.02 cm x 26.35 cm x 6.51 cm)
Gift of the artist

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Frank Cassara
Grain
lithograph on paper
19 1/16 x 20 1/8 in. (48.3 x 51 cm)
Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser

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Frank Cassara
Agitator
lithograph on paper
12 7/16 x 7 13/16 in. (31.5 x 19.7 cm)
Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser

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This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of three children and a toy goat holding signs. One sign has the text 'No bed time until 9 o'clock', one is difficult to read, 'Brown paper for me' and the last one reads 'Down with oatmel'. The children are standing in a line.

Stereo Classics Studio
Stereoscope Image, Sample Set No.2: A strike in the Nursery
photograph on cardboard
3 11/16 in. x 7 in. ( 9.4 cm x 17.8 cm )
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond

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