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.”
This is Nazi Brutality
Title: This is Nazi Brutality
Year: 1943
Artist: Ben Shahn
Published: Office of War Information
This is the Enemy
Title: This is the Enemy
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: Office of War Information
We Shall Soon Have our Storm Troopers in America!
Title: We Shall Soon Have our Storm Troopers in America!
Year: 1942
Artist: unknown
Published: Office of War Information
Your Bit Can Help Drive Him Mad!
Title: Your Bit Can Help Drive Him Mad!
Year: 1942
Artist: Hamill
Published: unknown
This World Cannot Exist
Title: This World Cannot Exist
Year: 1942
Artist: John Falter
Published: Office of Facts and Figures
They’re Closer Than You Think!
Title: They’re Closer Than You Think!
Year: 1942
Artist: unknown
Published: Ordnance Department, US Army
Stop Him
Title: Stop Him
Year: 1945
Artist: Harry Morse Meyers
Published: US Army
Careless Matches Aid the Axis
Title: Careless Matches Aid the Axis
Year: 1942
Artist: unknown
Published: U. S. Department of Agriculture and US Forest Service
Enemies Both!
Title: Enemies Both!
Year: 1944
Artist: Frank Mack
Published: Naval Medical Command
Ready for Anything
Title: Ready for Anything
Year: 1943
Artist: Amos Sewell
Published: Ordnance Department, US Army
Keep ’em Smiling
Title: Keep ’em Smiling
Year: unknown
Artist: Syd Cockell
Published: Veterans of Foreign Wars
This is Our War!
Title: This is Our War!
Year: unknown
Artist: unknown
Published: unknown
