United States homefront poster collection

Identifier: irn607478
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn607478

Acquisition

The collection was acquired by to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of thirteen posters relating to the war effort in the United States before and during World War II.

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Displaying items 1 to 13 of 13

Poster urging US citizens to donate to the Bundles for Britain charity
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545803
- English
- overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US homefront poster of a man sleeping on the job
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545807
- English
- overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Security of War Information Campaign poster about safeguarding convoy movement information
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545808
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) | Width: 20.125 inches (51.118 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Security of War Information Campaign poster warning people to guard what they say in public because it could lead to the death of military personnel. The poster was designed by Stevan Dohanos, an illustrator and painter known for his “American Realist” style and depictions of everyday life. The poster was part of the Security of War Information Campaign, also known as the “hush-hush campaign.” This cooperative project was undertaken by the Office of War Information (OWI) with the oversight of a Security Committee, which included representatives from the OWI, the Army, Navy, FBI, and other a...
US war poster of a Nazi boot crushing a church
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545809
- English
- overall: Height: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US war poster with an image of bombs dropping on a factory
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545810
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US homefront poster of a German soldier making prisoners dig a ditch
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545811
- English
- overall: Height: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US homefront poster of a burning plane as it crashes
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545812
- English
- overall: Height: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US homefront poster showing people, backs to the wall, bring threatened with violence
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545813
- English
- overall: Height: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US homefront poster with an image of Thomas Edison
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545814
- English
- overall: Height: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US homefront poster of workers making a bomb and soldiers using it
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545815
- English
- overall: Height: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Ben Shahn poster with an image of a hooded man protesting the Nazi destruction of Lidice
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545816
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.
US homefront poster with an image of a welder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545817
- English
- overall: Height: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster showing a man being branded with a swastika
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn545818
- English
- overall: Height: 50.000 inches (127 cm) | Width: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago