(LABOR HISTORY) The Book of the Nineteenth Century The Story

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(LABOR HISTORY.) The Book of the Nineteenth Century: The Story of Labor. Poster, 36 x 24 inches; partial separations along two folds, moderate dampstaining with partial loss affecting several words; archivally mounted to board on top edge. Chicago: printed by Donohue & Hennsberry, circa 1886

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One of the larger 19th-century labor posters in existence. Printed to promote a ground-breaking history of working people, almost a century in advance of the bottom-up social history of the 1960s. Illustrated with color charts, and portraits of Terence Powderly and others.
with--the actual book as published: John Cameron Simonds. The Story of Manual Labor in All Lands and Ages. Thick 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, moderate wear. Chicago: Peale, 1887 and related four-color advertising flier.