Boys and Girls! Flagg’s War Savings Stamps Poster for Children
James Montgomery Flagg’s World War I poster asked America’s children to save their quarters for War Savings Stamps. Here is what it shows and how the stamps worked.
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Poster Journal
Archival histories, design context and transparent restoration studies from the collection.
Attack Attack Attack: The 1942 Buy War Bonds Poster by Ferdinand Warren
Ferdinand Warren's 1942 Treasury poster turned buying war bonds into a battle cry. The story of the image, the artist and how war bonds paid for World War II.
Be a Marine, Free a Marine to Fight: The 1943 Women’s Reserve Poster
The recruiting poster that asked women to join the Marine Corps so that more men could go into combat.
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A pointing finger and direct gaze made Uncle Sam one of the most recognisable figures in recruiting art.
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A naval gun crew and commanding red lettering make this recruiting design instantly readable.
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McClelland Barclay puts the physical work of anti-submarine warfare at the centre of a 1942 recruiting image.
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An aerial combat image places the Spitfire within British wartime aviation imagery.
The U.S. Marines Want You: A Direct Recruiting Appeal
A beckoning Marine makes the viewer the subject of this sharply focused enlistment design.
She’s a WOW: Adolph Treidler’s Woman Ordnance Worker Poster
The 1943 Army poster that turned an old song about the girl left at home into a salute to the women building the weapons.
We Can Do It!: The History Behind the Famous Poster
J. Howard Miller’s factory poster became far more famous after the war than during its original display.