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Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort

Object | Accession Number: 2015.363.1

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Overview

Brief Narrative: Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot machine are Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the world should enjoy: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.
Title: Your Right to Vote
Date: publication/distribution: 1943
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Acquisition Fund
Markings: front, bottom, white ink : Your right to vote is your opportunity to protect over here the freedoms for which Americans fight over there.

Physical Details

Language: English
Classification: Posters
Category: Political posters
Object Type: Posters, American (lcsh)
Physical Description: Color poster on paper with an image of a man's hand reaching for one of four red, white, and blue striped ballot lever. He is selecting the left lever, Freedom of Enterprise. The other levers are labelled: Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink

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Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Civil liberties--United States. Civil rights in art. Political posters, American. Propaganda, American--History--20th Century. Voting--United States--History--20th century. World War 1939-1945--Communications. World War 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
Funding Note: The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by the Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Acquisition Fund.

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 20:13:40
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