"The Dirty Dozen" Poster
date: label: date made
content: 1974
label: associated date
content: 1974
name: label: associated institution
content: Congress of the United States
notes: label: Description
content: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, as Americans became more aware of the need to protect the environment, political organizations and campaigns arose to combat pollution and the waste of our country’s natural resources. The League of Conservation Voters, established in 1969 to raise public awareness, began to publish an annual list of congressional legislators who consistently voted against clean energy and conservation.
label: Description
content: This 1974 poster distributed by Environmental Action depicts 12 members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, who were accused of voting on the side of commercial interests over environmental concerns. Their faces are superimposed on a picture of an early 20th-century “sports team” wearing the letter “D” (Dirty Dozen) on their sweaters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Environment
label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
label: Subject
content: Environmental History
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Environmental History
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content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Environmental Action, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.319894.01
label: catalog number
content: 319894.01
label: accession number
content: 319894
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 1/8 in x 19 1/8 in; 63.881 cm x 48.641 cm