Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
Archival History
The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Acquisition Fund
Funding Note: The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by the Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Acquisition Fund.
Scope and Content
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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.
Subjects
- Civil liberties--United States.
- World War 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- World War 1939-1945--Communications.
- Voting--United States--History--20th century.
- Propaganda, American--History--20th Century.
- Political posters, American.
- Civil rights in art.
Genre
- Object
- Posters