Our Lady of Labor
1900
'Workers of France, bring your stones!' This 1900 poster serves as a rallying cry for laborers to donate bricks for the Notre-Dame-du-Travail church in Paris. A solemn procession of men and women carry masonry toward a towering statue of the Virgin Mary, set against a backdrop of factory smokestacks and construction scaffolding. It’s a striking blend of Catholic devotion and industrial pride, created to give the working class a spiritual home during the 1900 World's Fair. The resulting church is famous for its interior, which looks remarkably like a steel factory with exposed beams instead of traditional stone arches.
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