Resource Type
Partner
Collection
Serial/Series Title
American War Posters
104
Newsmap
36
War Savings Staff [poster] (United States. War Savings Staff)
21
Produce for victory
14
OWI poster
11
This man is your friend, he fights for freedom.
7
War Production Board [poster] (United States. War Production Board)
7
Beat the promise
6
[Recruiting Publicity Bureau poster] (United States. Army)
6
Defense Savings Staff [poster] (United States. Defense Savings Staff)
5
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Country
Year
Language
Making America strong : today about 800 American industrial concerns either make airplanes or supply the parts.
Black & white chart features comic-book style drawings of airplanes, airplane parts, and industrial buildings arranged in pictograph format illustrating production statistics for engines, propellers, instruments, and complete airplanes.
Date:
1942?
Creator:
National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Making America strong : U.S. industry today employs 18 men to back up one soldier in the Army.
Black & white chart features comic-book style drawings. The main image is of a soldier on the battlefield. A pictograph shows how the number of industrial workers per soldier has grown through the centuries, from 55 BC to 1940. In the upper left corner is a drawing of a factory with smokestacks.
Date:
1942?
Creator:
National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Making America strong : industry's ever improving mass production methods step up output of latest type war planes.
Black & white poster features comic-book style drawings of machinery used to produce airplanes. In the upper right corner is an image of Uncle Sam pointing out to some people a flying military airplane which is seen through a large "hole" drawn in the poster.
Date:
1942?
Creator:
National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Making America strong : how subcontracting accelerates defense production--.
Black & white poster features comic-book style drawings. In the center of a large outline map of United States is a large tank, with numerous lines pointing outward to small drawings of industrial buildings throughout the U.S. In the upper left corner is a more detailed drawing of a factory with smokestacks.
Date:
1942?
Creator:
National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Making America strong : how American shipyards are winning the race against time to build our Navy.
Black & white chart describes how shipbuilding has become quicker during wartime. It features comic-book style drawings of a shipyard, a large ship at sea, and Uncle Sam changing from his decorated top hat to a worker's cap.
Date:
1942?
Creator:
National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pvt. Joe Louis says-- "We're going to do our part, and we'll win because we're on God's side."
Poster features a black & white photo of boxer Joe Louis in a combat uniform and helmet, pointing a rifle with bayonet. The background of the poster is blue.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lexington, 1775, they fought for freedom, we fight to keep it; Independence, July 4, 1776, they kept the faith and so do you every time you lend a dime for war savings stamps; John Paul Jones said, "I have not yet begun to fight", fight with war stamps & bonds; Washington crossed the Delaware to win our freedom, we cross oceans to keep it.
A series of four equally sized wood prints of historic scenes separated by dotted lines. The colors are teal and orange.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Remember last December! : --"that free peoples may not perish from this earth" : enlist in your Navy today.
Color poster features a portrait of a sailor in an enlisted service dress blue uniform. He stands in front of a waving U.S. flag.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Falter, John Philip, 1910-1982.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"This world cannot exist half slave and half free" : sacrifice for freedom!
Family and priest grimacing and cowering under the shadow of an enemy soldier holding up cat-o-nine tails.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Falter, John Philip, 1910-1982.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Back 'em up with more metal.
Color poster of two army soldiers in camouflage, holding rifles, crawling on their bellies on the grass at night.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Von Schmidt, Harold, 1893-1982
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Give it your best!
Color image of the U.S. flag, with 48 stars.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office for Emergency Management. Division of Information.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
United we stand, divided we fall : beat the promise.
Bird's eye view of two factories; the two images are divided by the stripes of the U.S. flag. On the left, with blue background, a train drives away from a working factory with vehicles parked outside the buildings. On the right, with red background, a factory burns. A wrecked train and fallen person lie near the burning buildings.
Date:
1942
Creator:
RCA Manufacturing Company, inc.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Give it your best!
Large color image of the U.S. flag with 48 stars.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of War Information.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Men working : together!
A helmeted soldier, a factory worker, and a sailor stand proudly together. Black & white photograph on light orange background.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office for Emergency Management. Division of Information.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Independence, July 4, 1776 ... : they kept the faith and so do you every time you lend a dime for war savings stamps.
Small color poster in red-orange and green tones. Thomas Jefferson reads the Declaration of Independence while other signers of it are seated around a table listening.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Washington crossed the Delaware to win our freedom, we cross oceans to keep it : buy war stamps & bonds.
Small poster in orange and green tones. George Washington is in a boat, surrounded by other men with oars who are rowing. In front of him in the boat is the U.S. flag.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974
System:
The UNT Digital Library
John Paul Jones said, 'I have not yet begun to fight' : fight with war stamps & bonds.
Color poster in red-orange and green tones. John Paul Jones, wearing a Revolutionary War uniform, stands with one fist in the air and a sword in his other hand. At his feet is a cannon. Behind him is an early U.S. flag; in front of him is a shirtless man wearing a head scarf and earring.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lexington, 1775 : they fought for freedom, we fight to keep it : buy war stamps & bonds.
This is a small color poster promoting war stamps. Image shows four colonial freedom fighters. Three of them are pointing their muskets and one appears to have fallen on his weapon. Colors are teal and orange.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"United we stand--" : two fox-holes defending America.
Poster consists of two drawings divided by text caption. The first drawing is of a soldier in a fox-hole, aiming a large gun to the right of the viewer. The second drawing is of a miner in a shaft, aiming mining equipment away from the viewer.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Kirby, Rollin, 1875-1952
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hit 'em with Copper, Zinc, Lead
Black and white cartoon of Uncle Sam and a miner. Miner: "Gosh, I would like to take a crack at those Japs!" Uncle Sam: "You're doin' it every day - with every ton of ore you mine to make tanks, planes and guns"
Date:
1942
Creator:
Kirby, Rollin, 1875-1952
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tomorrow may be too late!
Black and white cartoon of Hideki Tojo and an American miner. Each has a caption in a bubble above his head. Tojo is trying to influence the miner to slack off on his work but the miner is not influenced.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Kirby, Rollin, 1875-1952
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Here's why we need more metal to win this war.
Poster features a series of six black & white photographs on a black background. The photographs are of military weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and a ship. Each photograph has a caption describing the amount of copper, zinc, and lead used to manufacture the equipment shown.
Date:
1942
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
He's a fighting fool, give him the best you've got : more production.
Color poster in blue and black shades. Image of a soldier using a large artillery gun which is pointed upward. Three planes are seen flying in the distance behind the soldier.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Ludekens, Fred, 1900-1982.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
WEFT is a system for aircraft recognition : wing, engine, fuselage, tail.
Chart describing the characteristics of various military aircrafts.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Coggins, Jack.
System:
The UNT Digital Library