Browse the entire collection by thematic subject or contributor.
Types of Art
Buttons, Badges & Ribbons Proclaiming membership or voicing opinion, buttons can make an impression.
Cartoon Art Cartoon art on labor issues, often with satiric humor.
Leaflets & Pamphlets Graphic arts and stirring words in skilled combination.
Murals Wall paintings that memorialize dramatic events in the history of working people.
Photographs See the section on Photography.
Song Books & Sheet Music The best known and most widely practiced art form of the labor movement.
Themes
Civil Rights Images from the 1920s through the 1990s about the efforts to win fair treatment for black citizens.
Parades and Demonstrations Workers take to the streets to tell their story.
Strikes Labor's weapon of last resort.
Union Square A national historic landmark where workers exercised their rights to free speech and assembly.
Workers at Work Images of people actually on the job.
Labor Defender Covers from the monthly publication of the International Labor Defense.
Time Periods
Pre-1920s Labor Arts objects from the early part of the century.
1920s The Roaring Twenties: Boom and Bust!
1930s A New Deal for labor and the nation.
1940s - 1950s Labor in the hot and cold wars.
1960s - 1970s The Civil and Women's Rights Era.
1980s - 1990s On the brink of the new millenium.
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