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Labour Party poster, 1957
After eight years in opposition, Labour won a narrow victory in the 1957 election. But despite this poster's smiling vision of universal prosperity, voters would turn their backs on Labour three years later.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Reference: Eph-F-ODEA-1940/60-26
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