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“By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand.”

The artisan’s symbol adorned an announcement in New York’s General Trades’ Union newspaper, The Union, calling for a demonstration to support union tailors convicted of conspiracy in 1836.

Source: The Union, June 14, 1836—Rare Books and Manuscript Division, The New York Public Library.

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