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Topic: Potent Pictures: Propaganda Posters

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Posters were one of the most prevalent means of communicating propaganda messages to American citizens during World War II. Because they were inexpensive to design and print, posters could reach a wide audience with specific messages. Government posters—typically printed in the millions—were by far the most common; they often featured the designs of established and well-known artists (including Norman Rockwell, whose Four Freedoms images quickly became four million war posters). However, corporations and private institutions also produced posters during the war. Whatever their source, many thousands of these posters have survived in archival repositories, leaving a colorful record of what one propagandist called the “war within a war.”

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersWar Finance (Posters)

Let’s Blast ‘Em Japanazis!

Title: Let’s Blast ‘Em Japanazis!
Year: 1942
Artist: unknown
Published: War Stamp Council

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersWar Finance (Posters)

Hasten the Homecoming

Title: Hasten the Homecoming
Year: 1945
Artist: Norman Rockwell
Published: US Treasury

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersWar Finance (Posters)

Even a Little Can Help a Lot

Title: Even a Little Can Help a Lot
Year: 1942
Artist: Al Parker
Published: US Treasury

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersWar Finance (Posters)

America is Worth Defending!

Title: America is Worth Defending!
Year: unknown
Artist: unknown
Published: US Treasury

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersWar Finance (Posters)

Buy War Bonds

Title: Buy War Bonds
Year: 1942
Artist: N.C. Wyeth
Published: US Treasury

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersWar Finance (Posters)

Don’t Let That Shadow

Title: Don’t Let That Shadow
Year: 1942
Artist: Lawrence Beall Smith
Published: US Treasury

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersUnity (Posters)

Don’t Fall for Enemy Propaganda

Title: Don’t Fall for Enemy Propaganda
Year: 1943
Artist: Jack Betts
Published: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersUnity (Posters)

Twice a Patriot!

Title: Twice a Patriot!
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: War Production Board

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersUnity (Posters)

In Unity There is Strength

Title: In Unity There is Strength
Year: 1941
Artist: unknown
Published: Appreciate America, Inc

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersUnity (Posters)

United We Win

Title: United We Win
Year: 1943
Artist: Alexander Liberman
Published: War Manpower Commission

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersUnity (Posters)

Pvt. Joe Louis Says

Title: Pvt. Joe Louis Says
Year: 1942
Artist: unknown
Published: Office of Facts and Figures

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersUnity (Posters)

This Ruined Europe

Title: This Ruined Europe
Year: unknown
Artist: unknown
Published: C. X. R. Miller

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