Posters Working Together

I love to keep an eye out for photos from the P&P collections that show posters being displayed. I then search the poster collection to see if we have a copy of the actual poster. Here are some of the better examples from the World War II era.

A 1942 poster by Jean Carlu, produced by the Office of War Information, can be seen hanging in the Pacific Parachute Company in San Diego, CA, with three employees posed in front of it, in this photo from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection:

Here is the poster:

Children in New York City line up to buy war stamps and bonds. Uncle Sam urges them on from the classroom wall.

Some posters appear in multiple photos! The Buy War Bonds poster also can be seen hanging in another classroom in this John Vachon image from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection:

The poster by N.C. Wyeth:

A Boy Scout sits in front of the U.S. Capitol holding a United We Are Strong poster:

Truck lights shine on a Men Working Together poster hung in a “Middlewestern copper and brass plant,” probably the Chase Brass and Copper Company of Euclid, Ohio:

Participants in the first meeting of the War Production Drive Policy Committee pose in front of five posters. The posters are captioned with the number of copies distributed of each:

Learn More:

• Read a Picture This blog post post about the Men Working Together poster.
• Compare and contrast some American National Red Cross posters with photos recreating them in the Picture This blog Red Cross Posters and Tableaux Vivants.
• Browse the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection.