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Title: Support Affordable Housing Picketing
Date: 1990
Description: Pencil drawing of workers from various unions walking and holding signs.

Title: The Marble Quarry
Description: Oil painting showing workers in a marble quarry with cart, hoist, and various tools.

Title: For All These Rights We've Just Begun to Fight
Date: 1946
Description: Lithograph showing man with agitated expression and upraised fist surrounded by banners; created for the CIO in 1946 urging union members to vote.

Title: Cement Work
Date: 2010
Description: Watercolor painting showing construction worker preparring concrete with façade of Saint Louis Art Museum in background.

Title: Hattie Baking Biscuits
Date: 1995
Description: Acrylic painting showing a woman in a commercial kitchen leaning over a counter that holds biscuit dough and a rolling pin.

Title: Building Service Group
Date: 1984
Description: Wood block print showing group of employees, some with tools of their trade.

Title: Joe Hill
Description: Oil painting showing labor organizer and singer Joe Hill in shackles with a crowd and banner behind him.

Title: Mississippi Lime Quarry, Ste. Genevieve
Date: 1951
Description: Lithograph showing a Mississippi lime quarry with one worker in foreground.

Title: End of Shift
Description: Oil painting showing a man accompanied by a child walking on a sidewalk with factory and busy street in the background.

Title: William Henry Harrison Mezzotint Print
Date: 1841
Description: Mezzotint portrait of William Henry Harrison produced by George Endicott after a portrait painted by Edward Dalton Marchant in 1841. The print commemorates Harrison's inauguration as the ninth president of the United States.

Title: A March to Eisenhower Sheet Music
Date: 1953
Description: 11 15/16 inches by 8 7/8 inches white music sheet with cover page. The cover page is white with blue and red letters. At the top is blue letters spelling "A MARCH TO EISENHOWER". Beneath the title are blue letters spelling "WORDS BY HIRAM D. HIRSH MUSIC BY JEWEL M. FRANK". There is an American flag on a pole in the center of the page. Next to the flag are red letters spelling "Souvenir of

Title: Workers on railroad car
Date: 1853
Description: Drawing of workers on a railroad flatcar, pencil on wove paper, signed bottom center Paulus Roetter and dated lower right 1853, 2 3/16 inches by 5 1/8 inches

Title: Workers quarrying
Description: Drawing of men striking rocks with picks below a cliff with a jagged tree trunk; two men stand on the cliff. Pencil on wove paper, signed lower right Paulus Roetter, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches

Title: Youth in Landscape
Date: 1865-05
Description: Drawing of young person kneeling on a narrow path scooping water from a stream with their hand while a dog drinks from the stream. Above the figure is a rectangle with initials in a stylized font; potentially a bookplate design. Pencil on irregularly shaped wove paper, initialed "L.G." lower left and dated May 1865, 5 inches by 2 1/4 inches

Title: Industrial landscape
Description: Landscape drawing with industrial buildings including possibly a water treatment plant, with horse-drawn wagon and horses in foreground, pencil on wove paper, signed bottom right Paulus Roetter, no date, 4 inches by 7 1/2 inches

Title: Tree
Date: 1858-06-09
Description: Detailed drawing of a tree trunk, pencil on laid paper, signed J Gast June 9th 1858, 6 inches by 5 inches

Title: Sheep
Description: Drawing of two sheep heads, pencil on laid paper, signed bottom center John Gast Nov. 8th 18..(indistinct), 4 inches by 6 1/4 inches

Title: Unidentified building
Description: Drawing of a two-story building with elevated entrance, pencil on on wove paper, signed Theod. Anders, no date, 3 1/4 inches by 2 1/2 inches

Title: Festival scene
Date: 1839
Description: Design with stylized floral motif up the left side leading to a festival scene of figures dancing around a maypole in the upper left corner that extends to a generalized landscape across the top. Across the top is a banner reading Paris, le 21 July 1839. Pencil on wove paper, initialed lower left "L G" (Leopold Gast), dated Paris 1839, 8 1/4 inches by 5 1/16 inches

Title: Coin and Soldier
Date: unknown, 1934-02-12
Description: This photo of a French War poster reads, "Pour la France Versez Votre Or/L'Or Combat Pour La Victoire". The image is a soldier holding a large rifle and bayonet, and above him is a comically large 1915 coin with a rooster leaning aggressively toward the soldier.

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