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Keep 'em flying.
Black and white poster describes the qualifications and pay for U.S. Army Air Corps positions. In a black & white photograph below the text, a large group of Flying Cadets in flight suits walks toward the viewer.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Get in the scrap.
Four images in black with gray backgrounds and captions in red. The black images are: an aerial bomb, a tank, a battleship, and an anti-aircraft gun. The gray background design incorporates outline images of various junk metal objects. Each caption describes the finished object and the amount of scrap metal required to produce it.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. War Production Board. Bureau of Industrial Conservation.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Going our way? : be a Victory Farm Volunteer of the U.S. Crop Corps.
Color poster shows an adolescent boy and girl. Both are smiling and neatly dressed. The boy carries farm tools. He has red hair and freckles and wears a windowpane-plaid blue shirt. The girl's blond hair is coiffed and she wears a red dress or blouse. A "Craftsman" brand name mark can be seen on the pitchfork carried by the boy.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Bruehl, Anton, 1900-1982.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Next! : 6th War Loan.
Large head of a helmeted soldier grimaces at an aerial image of the island nation of Japan. At left is an inset graphic of a blue bomb falling on the Japanese flag.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Bingham, James
System:
The UNT Digital Library
America calling : take your place in civilian defense.
Red and white text, with a civil defense insignia in the middle of the poster. Civil Defense insignia is a red "CD" in white triangle on a blue circle.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
7th War Loan: now--all together.
Small color poster promoting the 7th War Loan. The painting by C. C. Beall is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Associated Press photographer, Joe Rosenthal, of the second American flag raising by U.S. Marines on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Beall, C. C. (Cecil Calvert), 1892-1967
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Keep 'em flying! : presented by the United States Army Recruiting Service.
An optical illusion. From far away, the image looks like a portrait of Uncle Sam. A close-up view reveals a grouping of images depicting the war effort, including a soldier, a sailor, a pilot, a smelter worker, a scientist, a nurse, a farmer, factories with smokestacks, a battleship, the U.S. Capitol building, and U.S. flags. In the lower left corner is the text of a poem by Jack Childs.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Beall, C. C. (Cecil Calvert), 1892-1967 & Childs, Jack
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The United Nations fight for freedom.
Poster depicts an etching of the Statue of Liberty on a black background on the left side of the poster. On the right there are pictures of flags of 30 countries. Poster has black background with white text at the top of the page and a white border all around.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Broder, S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Bugle Sounds : Enlist in the U.S. Army Now : Your Country Needs You.
Poster in red, white, and blue tones includes an illustration of a military airplane and a photograph of men driving armored vehicles.
Date:
194X
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
For peace and security: buy bonds.
The Three Wise Men (Three Kings of the Orient) in colorful garments ride camels toward the Christmas Star.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Ball, Linn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"In the strength of great hope we must shoulder our common load" : buy Victory Bonds.
An image of Franklin D. Roosevelt hovers in the sky above a family standing near a grave site. On the horizon line is a cemetery monument (a cross with a wreath) and a view of the the rising sun.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Beall, C. C. (Cecil Calvert), 1892-1967
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An open letter to the unconquerable Dutch.
A poem praising the Dutch for defying the Nazis in World War II. The poem is framed by a painting of a tattered Dutch flag, in front of which are two hands bound with broken chains. Behind the flag is a Dutch landscape, including windmills and the ocean, depicted as a war zone.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Atherton, John, 1900-1952 & Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Could this be you? : don't travel unless your trip helps win the war.
Four cartoons in black line drawing on white; cartoons appear as paper sheets tacked to a blue background. They depict various excuses for travel which are characterized as frivolous: "It's impossible to find anything in the local shops." "We haven't seen Bob's children since way last fall." "But this contract is vital.""But Grandma misses us so."
Date:
1945
Creator:
United States. Office of Defense Transportation.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Springs with stings ... : you can speed victory by salvaging and selling old metal. The steel industry needs scrap!
A black & white drawing on the top half of the poster shows a metal spring figure pinching a cartoon Hitler's nose. Hitler's bare arms and legs form a swastika, and he holds a knife. The lower portion of the poster is text, with a small picture displaying various steel products. Under drawing is text and picture saying what steel is used for. The company's name, address, and logo appear at the bottom. Red text at the bottom explains the purpose of the advertisement and where it appears: Time and Business Week.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Screening the Axis.
A mesh metal being stands upright holding a metal sieve through which he strains the metal weaponry out of the enemy. Nazi and Japanese soldiers rain down into the sieve. Above and behind them are dark clouds with lightning striking downward toward the sieve. In the far background is a town.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
America will be as strong as her women.
Charcoal sketch of a woman holding up a young girl.
Date:
1938
Creator:
Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy, 1889-1977.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Springs with stings]
A figure made of wire and springs pinches the nose of a caricature of Adolf Hitler, whose arms and legs form a swastika. Hitler holds a knife in one hand.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Wire with a kick]
A figure made of wire kicks a swastika-shaped caricature of Hitler. In the background at right is a factory with smokestacks. In the background at left are flames rising from the ocean.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Freshmen! Sophomores! : now you can stay in college and become a naval officer.
Black and white drawing of a naval officer in uniform wearing an officer's cap, looking toward the sky and holding binoculars. In the background, planes are flying, some in formation, and men are firing large artillery guns.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Barclay, McClelland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Eat the Basic 7-- every day! : eat a lunch that packs a punch!
Contains a circular chart showing seven basic food groups surrounded by cartoons demonstrating the benefits of each food group. In the center of the wheel chart is a red and blue logo of a family, with the caption: "U.S. needs us strong, eat the Basic 7 every day".
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. War Food Administration.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Can you qualify for the Army Air Corps?
Chart of requirements for joining the Army Air Corps. Upper and lower borders are red-white-and-blue stripes with text. A "watermark"-type logo can be seen in the background of the chart, with text: "LET'S GO! U.S.A. KEEP 'EM FLYING." This 1942 edition of the poster is distinguished by one split column numbered "2" under "Aviation Cadets" and one split column numbered "3" under "Enlisted Men."
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Army. Recruiting Service.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Let's hit 'em with everything we've got! : don't wait, choose the Navy.
Sailors in helmets and blue shirts, operating large artillery weapons. An explosion is seen in the background.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Barclay, McClelland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Naval aviation has a place for you-- : pilots, machinist's mates, radiomen, metalsmiths, ordnancemen : learn the right-way--the Navy-way, apply today.
Sailor performs maintenance on a wheel assembly. Behind him are ships and planes.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Barclay, McClelland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Let's finish the job! : urgent-- experienced seamen needed!
A seaman holds the wheel of a ship. He has blue eyes and auburn hair and he wears a brown jacket and blue knitted sweater and watch cap. On his jacket he wears a pin of the U.S. Merchant Marine seal. The poster background is yellow.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Sawyers, Martha, 1902-1988.
System:
The UNT Digital Library