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Title: Register
Description: Poster of a man's arm with his shirt sleeve pushed up. He is holding a yellow card in his fingers with the text, "The Ballot is a power in your hands. Use it - and you help to secure good government. Fail to use it - and you score for the other side. Your vote is the key to your freedom. To use it you must register. Do it." Across the foot is the word, "Register." The poster was created for the Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee.
Image ID: 96650
Creation
Date: 		1944 
Creator
Name: 		Shahn, Ben
Collection
Name: 		Visual Materials Oversize
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		The artist, Ben Shahn, was a painter, printmaker, muralist, and activist. In 1944, he produced a series of posters for the Political Action Committee (PAC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), a branch of organized labor, urging people to "register and vote." Litho in U.S.A. The union "bug" appears in the lower right corner.
Subjects: Political campaigns
Political posters
Men
Work clothes
Voting
Committees
 

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