Banner, FDR for President
name: label: associated person
content: Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
notes: label: Description
content: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campaign banner, 1932. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election in 1932 and the subsequent New Deal legislation strengthened labor unions and social reform movements. Many within the Roosevelt Administration believed that the Depression resulted from under-consumption due to low wages. Through a number of programs — including the National Recovery Administration, the Wagner Labor Relations Act (which
label: Description
content: protected labor organizing), and the Fair Labor Standards Act — the government raised wages and improved working conditions to put the economy back on track.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Sweatshops
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Ralph E Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1940.C06
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1940.C06
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Banner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (dowel material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 21.59 cm