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.”
Together We Win
Title: Together We Win
Year: 1943
Artist: Allen Reiner
Published: War Production Board
This is America…Keep It Free!
Title: This is America…Keep It Free!
Year: 1942
Artist: unknown
Published: Sheldon-Claire Company
Fight Un-American Propaganda
Title: Fight Un-American Propaganda
Year: 1943
Artist: C. X. R. Miller
Published: unknown
Quiet!
Title: Quiet!
Year: 1942
Artist: Da Holcomb
Published: British and American Ambulance Corps
Silence Means Security
Title: Silence Means Security
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Don’t Talk Us Out of This!
Title: Don’t Talk Us Out of This!
Year: unknown
Artist: unknown
Published: unknown
Award For Careless Talk
Title: Award For Careless Talk
Year: 1944
Artist: Stevan Dohanos
Published: Office of War Information
Bits of Careless Talk
Title: Bits of Careless Talk
Year: 1943
Artist: Stevan Dohanos
Published: Office of War Information
A Careless Word
Title: A Careless Word
Year: 1943
Artist: John Atherton
Published: Office of War Information
Someone Talked!
Title: Someone Talked!
Year: 1942
Artist: Frederick Siebel
Published: Office of War Information
Because Someone Talked
Title: Because Someone Talked
Year: 1944
Artist: Wesley Heyman
Published: Office of War Information
I Haven’t Talked Yet!
Title: I Haven’t Talked Yet!
Year: 1944
Artist: unknown
Published: OCASC Intelligence Section
