Celebrate Labor Day with 23 Vintage Posters On Pinterest
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Every year, America celebrates the hard work and dexterity of its committed citizens on the first Monday of each September. People enjoy the long weekend with their families doing barbecues and participating in Labor Day parades. This year, Labor Day will be held on September 1st and it will be a holiday in every State of the United States of America.
When our forefathers migrated to this amazing continent, they had a dream. That dream promised them everything from indiscrimination to prosperity. Centuries later, we have become doubtful as to what extent our expectations have come true, how our own behavior as true Americans dictate the future of our coming generations and of those who are going to become a part of the American dream from other parts of the world. We have an exceedingly diverse culture and every year millions of foreigners bring something unique to the table, our forbearance and liberality has receded. We discriminate against minorities, naively follow stereotypes, and interfere in the affairs of other countries. These things were never a part of our vision. We were supposed to create a better life for everyone, free from all prejudice and continued success earned through effort and endurance.
As the Labor Day is only a couple of weeks away, I thought of bringing some art work related to the occasion. Therefore, I thought of collecting some stimulating Labor Day Posters, both vintage and new, for my readers. The following posters were published at different blogs and a short description to their sources is available below. Enjoy your Labor Day and tell us what special plans you have for the holiday. Do they involve perusing through some amazing designer portfolios?
1. Happy Labor Day Poster
This poster is available on RedBubble which is a creative community and market place on the interlink. From iPhone cases to fascinating wall art, this website offers all.
2. Our Fellow Workers
This retro poster greeting card illustration is available at Society6. It is a good place for all lovers of art to buy and sell their creative stuff. From Wall art to home décor, everything is available.
3. Solidarity
This Poster has been taken from Newmanology; a website where you can find the choicest stories, newspapers, magazines as well as art works, such as, posters, illustrations, graphic design, etc.
4. The Labor Movement
This is an educational poster about labor history and labor movements. I really loved the vivacity in this work. It’s powerful and compelling and not at all like the clichéd poster designs . You can find it on the blog Today In Labor History.
5. Labor Less & Accomplish More
This artwork is by EriK Miranovic and available at DudeCraft. The website is dedicated to the creative tribe that loves to create cool stuff, share the technique, and help others who would want to learn their trade.
6. Holiday Magazine Cover
This creative poster can be found on the Delicious Industries website. You can find some amazing projects of art direction, design and typography by Judith Wilding who runs it as an independent studio.
7. Women Support Labor
Women are dynamic workers and they believe in equality. This poster says it all with some compelling words. Available at blue cheddar, your labor day would be incomplete without hailing the role of women through this poster.
8. Your Rights As Workers
This is the cover of American Federation of Labor organizing leaflet which explains the right of labor to organize into unions of their choice. This was guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 but the rights granted by this legislation curtailed later on by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. This poster is from the collection of Wagner Labor Archives and is available at the Labor Arts website
9. Work Pays America
This poster on American labor was created by Vera Bock for the Federal Art Project (FAP). The work is available at Getty Images.
10. Union Labor
This poster is also available at Newmanology which took it from Design Observer. Robert Newman has worked as a creative director for both Real Simple and Reader’s Digest so you can always find selections of quality works on his website.
11. Organize?
This vintage Labor Day poster is from the 1930s and you can find it on AllPosters.com. This website offers a vast range of posters and art prints complete with framing and mounting services.
12. Labor Is Entitled To All It Creates
This poster has been collected from the website The Sociological Cinema, run by three public sociologists. This poster was coupled with a thought provoking film based on the extraordinary movement of factory takeovers in Argentina.
13. Celebrating Labor Day
This is another framed illustrative poster taken from Society6 website. The frame is made of solid wood with a gesso coating and includes wall hanging hardware.
14. Keep Punching!
Keep Punching Every Day! That is the ethos of our nation. This poster is taken from a blog with just as interesting a name: If Charlie Parker Was a Gun Slinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats.
15. Happy Labor Day
This is yet another retro poster from the RedBubble.com.
16. International Workers Day
This is one of my favorites vintage May Day Posters. In more than 80 countries across the world, Labor Day is celebrated on the 1st of May. This poster is available at the FlavorWire website.
17. Labor Day Greetings
Another retro poster greeting from the RedBubble Website!
18. God Bless Our Workers
They sure have a huge collection of fantastic Labor Day posters on RedBubble.
19. American Democracy
This Quasi Socialist poster is available on Pinterest but the source link is broken. Apparently, it was available on youpromisedit.com.
20. Labor Day Souvenir
This poster is the perfect representation of what our country believes in. It is available on EverydayFamily which is basically a family driven website. It provides general information for educational purposes only.
21. Worker Rights As Human Rights
This amazing poster says it all. It was created by the United Association for Labor Education and intends to provide a glimpse into the needs of workers.
22. America Was Built By Labor
A powerful Labor Day poster reminding how America was built, it is available on the Newmanology Blog.
23. Labor Day Illustration
This colorful Labor Day illustration poster is exclusively available on the Freepik website. It is a search engine that provides graphic and web designers high quality photos, vectors, icons, illustrations, and PSD files for their projects.
Hope you enjoyed our Labor Day poster’s extravaganza. I would like to leave you with some food for thought. They say and I agree:
“Labor is the only prayers that Nature answers.”
Let us give our sincerest labor to this country and get the best rewards nature has to offer. Au revoir!
