World War II Posters, circa 1939-circa 1945

Container Title
Series: K: War Information
K1: OWI and OPA series
Folder   K1
Item   1
HITLER wants us to believe that:...
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-476330.
Folder   K1
Item   2
The Atlantic Charter... August 14, 1941. F.D. Roosevelt and W. S. Churchill
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 50. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-517133.
Folder   K1
Item   3
Books cannot be killed by fire. BOOKS ARE WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 7. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-487131. Artist: Broder.
Folder   K1
Item   4
What Nazis think of German-Americans...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 48. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-512675.
Folder   K1
Item   5
Homemaker's War Guide...Victory begins at home. Do your part
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 20. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-498305.
Folder   K1
Item   6
If you tell where they're going...They many never get there...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 54. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-519564.
Folder   K1
Item   7
THIS MAN MAY DIE if you talk too much
Note: ID: OPA Poster No. 6. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-504961. Artist: Sarra.
Folder   K1
Item   8
Are YOU playing square?
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 302-843, 7-44. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-600050. Artist: Dean Cornwell.
K2: , 1942-1944 OWI series
Folder   K2
Item   1
a careless word...another cross
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 23. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-501237. Artist: John Atherton.
Folder   K2
Item   2
SOMEONE TALKED!
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 18. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-496733. Artist: Siebel.
Folder   K2
Item   3
Be a Cadet Nurse...
Note: ID: OWI NE Poster No. N3. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-599074. Artist: Jon Whitcomb.
Folder   K2
Item   4
Americanos todos luchamos por la victoria
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 65. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-528719. Artist: Leon Helguera.
Folder   K2
Item   5
Una palabra indicreta... OTRO BARCO HUNDIDO
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 24. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-502219. Artist: Anton Otto Fischer.
Folder   K2
Item   6
una frase indiscreta... UNA VIDA DESTOZADA
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 36. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-506018.
K3: , 1942-1943; OWI and WPD series
Folder   K3
Item   1
Help bring them back to you!...Make yours a Victory Home
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 41. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-510253.
Folder   K3
Item   2
Can all you can. It's a real war job!
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 77. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-539993.
Folder   K3
Item   3
Ours to fight for FREEDOM FROM FEAR
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 46. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-511887. Artist: Norman Rockwell.
Folder   K3
Item   4
Save freedom of worship. Buy War Bonds
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 43. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-510256. Artist: Norman Rockwell.
Folder   K3
Item   5
Save freedom of speech. BUY WAR BONDS
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 44. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-510257. Artist: Norman Rockwell.
Folder   K3
Item   6
Ours...to fight for. Freedom from Want
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 45. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-511886. Artist: Norman Rockwell.
Folder   K3
Item   7
We French workers warn you...defeat means slavery, starvation, death
Note: ID: War Production Drive Poster No. A-25. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491777. Artist: Ben Shahn.
Folder   K3
Item   8
This is Nazi brutality...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 11. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491104.
Folder   K3
Item   9
les UNIFORMS... (French uniforms, insignias)
Note: ID: US 734 FR.
Folder   K3
Item   10
Freedom for speech, worship, from want, from fear - four posters together
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 47. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-511888.
K4: , 1942-1944; OWI series
Folder   K4
Item   1
A message to our tenants...Help stop fuel waste...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 12. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-492821.
Folder   K4
Item   2
if you talk too much THIS MAN MAY DIE
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 6. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-482161. Artist: Sarra?.
Folder   K4
Item   3
Food is a weapon. DON'T WASTE IT!...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 58. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-520466.
Folder   K4
Item   4
The United Nations fight for freedom...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 19. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-498304. Artist: Broder.
Folder   K4
Item   5
Avenge , December 7
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 15. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491978. Artist: Bernard Perlin.
Folder   K4
Item   6
WANTED! FOR MURDER. Her CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-595600.
Folder   K4
Item   7
UNITED. The united nations fight for freedom
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 79. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-534058. Artist: Leslie Ragan.
Folder   K4
Item   8
The united nations fight for freedom (flags)
Note: ID: Office of Facts and Figures May 1, 1942. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-461205.
K5: , 1942-1945; OWI series
Folder   K5
Item   1
...we highly resolve that...REMEMBER , DEC. 7TH!
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 14. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491977.
Folder   K5
Item   2
778/1943 AMERICANS will always fight for liberty
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 26. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1945-O-502684. Artist: B. Perlin.
Folder   K5
Item   3
This is the enemy. (swastika; dagger through Bible)
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 76. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-533688. Artist.
Folder   K5
Item   4
A careless word...A NEEDLESS SINKING
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 24. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-502219. Artist: Anton Otto Fischer.
Folder   K5
Item   5
(Uncle Sam) I'm counting on you!
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 78. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-534057.
Folder   K5
Item   6
ENEMY EARS are listening
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 5. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-480485.
Folder   K5
Item   7
AWARD for careless talk
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-602587. Artist: Stevan Dohanos.
K6: , 1943-1944; OWI series
Folder   K6
Item   1
If you tell where he's going...He may never get there!
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-556153. Artist: John Falter.
Folder   K6
Item   2
BITS OF CARELESS TALK are pieced together by the enemy
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-563414. Artist: Stevan Dohanos.
Folder   K6
Item   3
CARELESS TALK...got there first
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-593271. Artist: illegible.
Folder   K6
Item   4
LESS DANGEROUS THAN CARELESS TALK... (rattlesnake)
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-603532. Artist: Albert Dorne.
Folder   K6
Item   5
Enlist in a Proud Profession. Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps...
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-562744.
Folder   K6
Item   6
You are one of 50,000,000 Americans who must fill out an income tax return...
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-568411.
Folder   K6
Item   7
a careless word...A NEEDLESS LOSS
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 36. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-506018. Artist: Anton Otto Fischer
Folder   K6
Item   8
Do with less - so they'll have enough!...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 37. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-506014.
Folder   K6
Item   9
Save his life...and find your own. BE A NURSE...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 49. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-514971.
K7: , 1942-1944; OWI and ODT series
Folder   K7
Item   1
“I've found the job where I fit the best!” Find your war job...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 55. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-520464. Artist: Illegible.
Folder   K7
Item   2
The more WOMEN at work the sooner we WIN!
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 52. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-517134.
Folder   K7
Item   3
“We'll have lots to eat this winter, won't we Mother?” Grow your own. Can your own
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 57. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-520465.
Folder   K7
Item   4
CARELESS TALK got there first
Note: ID: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-576497. Artist: Ray Prohaska.
Folder   K7
Item   5
Work on a farm this summer. Join the U.S. Crop Corps...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 59. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-520467. Artist: Douglas.
Folder   K7
Item   6
IS YOUR TRIP NECESSARY? Needless travel interferes with the war effort
Note: ID: Office of Defense Transp. OWI Poster No. 74. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-533555.
Folder   K7
Item   7
778/1943 AMERICANS will always fight for liberty
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 26. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-502684.
Folder   K7
Item   8
If you tell where you're going YOU MAY NEVER GET THERE!...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 51. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-515025.
Folder   K7
Item   9
Americans! SHARE THE MEAT as a wartime necessity...
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 10. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-489556.
Folder   K7
Item   10
DON'T DISCUSS: troop movements, ship sailings...
Note: ID: OWI Sticker No. 82. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-534900.
Folder   K7
Item   11
Cartoon. The sound that kills. Don't murder men with idle words
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 1. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-469306.
K8: , 1943-1944; OWI series
Folder   K8
Item   1
...because somebody talked!
Note: ID: OWI. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-579038.
Folder   K8
Item   2
I'll carry mine too!
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 28. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-503155. Artist: Sarra.
Folder   K8
Item   3
YOUR AMMUNITION...DON'T WASTE IT!
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 21. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-534708.
Folder   K8
Item   4
“No loyal citizen...” (Message from President of U.S. February 3, 1943)
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 75. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-533582.
Folder   K8
Item   5
Ten years ago: THE NAZIS BURNED THESE BOOKS... but free Americans CAN STILL READ THEM
Note: ID: OWI Poster No. 66. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-528869.
K9: 1941-1945; Army, Office of Education and miscellaneous
Folder   K9
Item   1
Under Southern Skies. The South Plays Host. A souvenir picture of the U.S. Army Maneuvers
Note: ID: 1942 Dietz Printing, Richmond, VA.
Folder   K9
Item   2
The FOUR FREEDOMS. (Speech, worship, from want, from fear)
Note: ID: Office of Education. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1941-O-406668.
Folder   K9
Item   3
Are YOU a welcher? What are YOU going to say to Chicago's fighters if CHICAGO FAILS! Subscribe
Note: ID: none.
Folder   K9
Item   4
Aircraft Insignia
Note: ID: War Department. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-538110.
Folder   K9
Item   5
From base to beachhead - ENGINEERS. (verso: text, photos, map)
Note: ID: Information and Education. USAFFE. Southwest Pacific Newsmap Vol. 1, No. 17, 5 May 1944.
Folder   K9
Item   6
The Box Score. (Map showing progress in France and Germany)
Note: ID: none 1945; Artist: Lerman 45.
Folder   K9
Item   7
Our Great Leaders Never Die...Greece's fight against enemies of the United States...
Note: ID: June 1941, K. Sakelaracos, Publisher and Lecturer.
Folder   K9
Item   8
Reach your boy overseas by Vmail...
Note: ID: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-486595. Artist: Schlaikjer.
K10: 1941-1946; IRS, Army, Office of Education and miscellaneous
Folder   K10
Item   1
Today, Germany is Ours; Tomorrow, the Whole World. OH, YEAH?
Note: ID: PO -1941; Artist: Maclean.
Folder   K10
Item   2
World War II. Log of the U.S.S. Pathfinder. (1942-1945 with map and drawings)
Note: ID: none.
Folder   K10
Item   3
YANK - The Army Newspaper, By and For Enlisted Men. 5¢
Folder   K10
Item   4
Official Roster, Camp Livingston, Louisiana, July 1941. Battery B, 120th Field Artillery, 32nd Division
Note: ID: © 1941 Richardson-Rogers, Oklahoma City.
Folder   K10
Item   5
Warning ALIENS... (Written consent from Washington required to hire aliens in restricted manufacturing)
Note: ID: Army Service Forces. U.S. Government Printing Office: 517000.
Folder   K10
Item   6
Remember...Your Income Tax Return...
Note: ID: Internal Revenue Service. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1946-O-677846.
Folder   K10
Item   7
Back to all that we cherish. (Beaded flag over landscape)
Note: ID: none.
Folder   K10
Item   8
Surprise...a powerful weapon...Speed our victory...be careful what you say or write! (verso: map)
Note: ID: War Department. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-538110.