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American democracy, private enterprise – and they said our system was crumbling! (American poster, ca. 1943)

Text: American democracy, private enterprise – and they said our system was crumbling!

Year: ca. 1943.

Publisher: Think American Institute.

Artist: NA.

Additional information: Shows a worker standing over a destroyed sculpture of Mussolini against a sunlit backdrop of factories and skyscrapers. The Think American Institute was a New York-based organisation formed by industrialists in 1939 that issued a number of posters during the war.