The mural itself, made up of 300,000 tesserae of glass, marble and gold, covers a wall of the ground-floor lobby (now a meeting room) and was executed by the Ravenna Mosaic Company of St. Louis, MO.
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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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