{"id":21,"date":"2006-09-03T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2006\/09\/happy-labor-day.html"},"modified":"2018-12-30T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:15:01","slug":"happy-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/happy-labor-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Labor<\/p>\n

Here you have Scott #1082, with a first day issue of exactly 50 years ago, September 3rd, 1956. The design is by Victor S. McCloskey, Jr. of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing<\/a> based on a a small portion of a much larger mosaic, “Labor is Life” (also shown below) by the American artist Lumen Martin Winter. This mosaic was unveiled in 1956 by President Eisenhower at the the AFL\/CIO Headquarters in Washington DC .<\/p>\n

What a difference 50 years makes! One could write at length about how this stamp portrays a quintessentially 1950’s view of the family, the status of women, the industrial base of American labor combined with the influence of depression-era socialist realist art. But it is Labor Day, so I suggest you all get off the computer and start up the grill. That’s what I’m going to do.<\/p>\n

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