As this 1955 lithograph - based, evidently, on Winter’s cartoon - shows, the large-scale figures appear against the background of an illustrated history of American labor from pioneer days through the then present day.
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A sketch by Winter of the AFL-CIO mural’s central figures, on which the stamp’s design is based. Red conte on paper, 1955, the year the work was commissioned. The Long Island Museum.
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