Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.236
Object Name
Poster
Title
Debarrassons nos campagnes du cancer qui les ronge!
Place
France
Date
1930-1964
Description
A poster featuring a large photograph of two farm workers leading a horse across a field. Text at the top of the poster reads: "Debarrassons nos campagnes du cancer qui les ronge!" or "Let's rid our campaigns of the cancer that is eating away at them!". On top of the photograph is a black outline of a crab, within which the words "comités d'organisation de vichy bureaucratie - parasitisme impositions arbitraires amendes-saises desordre" or "vichy organizing committees bureaucracy - parasitism arbitrary imposition fines disorder" (rough translation). Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Finissons- en avec les impositions et les requistions arbitraire / Impisons l'abrogation du systeme des amendes. La suppression des comtes d'organisation du marche noir / Union et action pour debarasser la France des Trusts exploiteurs des paysans / En avant pour une republique / Basee sur la responsabilite gouvernementale devant les elus de la nation" or "Let's put an end to arbitrary impositions
and requirements / Impose the repeal of the system of fines. The removal of black market organization counts / Union and action to rid France of trusts exploiting peasants / Forward for a Republic / Based on government accountability to the nation's elected officials" The photograph used was taken by Nora Dumas.
