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Topic: Salvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

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The war shifted much of America’s industrial and agricultural production to military priorities. For example, automobile manufacturing skidded to a halt for the duration of the war as Detroit-area facilities instead began to turn out tanks and related military products. Other civilian goods were rationed or otherwise scarce for most of the war. As a result, posters constantly reminded home front citizens to reuse and recycle products, to follow rationing rules, to grow their own produce in Victory Gardens, to can food for winter months, and to contribute any excess metals, paper, or kitchen fats to scrap drives—where such products had useful industrial applications in wartime.

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

Ask the Women and Children…

Title: Ask the Women and Children…
Year: 1942
Artist: Käthe Kollwitz
Published: Office of War Information

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

A Real Partnership

Title: A Real Partnership
Year: unknown
Artist: unknown
Published: US Army

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

Are You Playing Square?

Title: Are You Playing Square?
Year: 1944
Artist: Dean Cornwell
Published: Office of War Information

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

Can All You Can

Title: Can All You Can
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: Office of War Information

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

War Traffic Must Come First

Title: War Traffic Must Come First
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: Office of War Information

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

Doggone It, Fellows!

Title: Doggone It, Fellows!
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: unknown

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

No One Had to Tell Him to Save Food & Equipment

Title: No One Had to Tell Him to Save Food & Equipment
Year: 1944
Artist: Wilson
Published: US Army

February 1, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

Salvage For Victory

Title: Salvage For Victory
Year: unknown
Artist: Louis Robert Samish
Published: unknown

January 30, 2019 / Potent Pictures: Propaganda PostersSalvage & Sacrifice (Posters)

Scrap

Title: Scrap
Year: 1942
Artist: Roy Schatt
Published: US Department of Agriculture

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