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CTC emblem card — Central de Trabajadores de Cuba

Object/Artifact

A small rectangular printed card bearing the CTC emblem on a white ground: the orange letters "CTC" forming a stylized worker's helmet at the top, over a white anvil, set within a black cogwheel that frames a blue roundel containing the white silhouette of the island of Cuba; the gear is ringed by the legend "CENTRAL DE TRABAJADORES DE CUBA." A yellow diagonal band crosses the field behind the emblem (a printed design element).

CTC emblem card — Central de Trabajadores de Cuba CTC emblem card — Central de Trabajadores de Cuba

2025.22.3

Gerardo Fernández Fe's family collection

2025.22

Gerardo Fernández Fe

Gift

CTC

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Maker / Issuer: Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), the Cuban national trade-union confederation. Printer not identified. Date: Undated. The "Central de Trabajadores de Cuba" name and emblem postdate the 1961 renaming; the graphic style suggests the 1960s–70s, so a date within 1959–1990 is likely but unconfirmed. Tentative.

"CTC"; "CENTRAL DE TRABAJADORES DE CUBA" (around the cogwheel emblem).

Cardboard

Technique: Multicolor offset/screen printing on card.

Good

CTC

issuer

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use

The CTC emblem combines the industrial cogwheel and anvil (labor), the "CTC" monogram rendered as a worker's helmet, and the island of Cuba. Founded as the Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba in 1939 and renamed Central de Trabajadores de Cuba in 1961, the CTC is Cuba's single trade-union confederation.