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For what avail the plough or sail (American poster, ca. 1942)

Text: Freedom from want, Freedom from fear, Freedom of religion, Freedom of speech. For what avail the plough or sail / Or land or life if freedom fail?

Year: ca. 1942.

Publisher: NA.

Artist: NA.

Additional Information: Poster depicts Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek with the ‘Four Freedoms’. Lines from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem ‘Boston’ also appear at the bottom.

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