LOT 627 15 WWII Propaganda posters
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Twelve (12) World War II United States propaganda posters by artists including John Atherton and Steve Broder. 1st item: Poster depicts a male soldier wearing a green helmet looking up while raising a United States flag on a pole. Text, in white across bottom left reads "To Have and to Hold!" and in large, red capital letters at the bottom "War Bonds". Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944, and reads "Official U.S. Treasury Poster" across the bottom. Unframed. 28" H x 20" W. 2nd item: Poster depicts a black and white photograph of a lady's hands, wearing a wedding ring, and knitting a baby sock. Red, white, and blue stripes run diagonally from top left to bottom right behind black text that reads "For the Future – Worth Fighting For …… Worth Saving for! – Buy More War Bonds through the Pay Roll Savings Plan during the Third War Loan Campaign." Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Text at bottom reads "Interdepartmental War Savings Bond Committee." Number "8" stamped in black and "Enclosure" stamped in purple en verso. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 3rd item: Poster depicts a large color illustration of the Concord Minuteman statue with a colonial town scene in the background, including a church, town hall with clock tower, trees, and silhouettes of people walking. Blue text at top reads "For Freedom's Sake" and in all capital red letters at bottom "Buy War Bonds". Signed "JA" in bottom right for artist John Atherton.Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 4th item: Poster titled "New Air Raid Warning System" in all outlined white all-capital letters at the top, with light blue background and navy blue, red, and white text and graphics. Text describes different signals, their meanings, and mandated civilian actions in the event of an air raid in the United States. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Text at bottom reads "Approved by the U.S. Office of Civilian Defense, The Eastern Defense Command, and the First Army." Unframed. 20" H x 28" W. 5th item: Poster titled "The Greatest Investment on Earth!" on a white background depicts red, white, and blue stripes running on a diagonal from the top left to bottom right corners, with a $25 war bond with a stone house in the middle of it, superimposed over a map of the contiguous United States, while a black and white illustration of a smiling husband and wife with their two children stand in the lower left. Text at bottom reads in all capitals "For Your Country…. Yourself….Your Family – War Bonds – Through The Pay Roll Savings Plan!" Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 6th item: Poster titled "The United Nations Fight for Freedom" in white letters against a black background depicts the Statue of Liberty in white, in the lower left corner with her arm raised along the left side. The flags, in full color, of the thirty (30) countries of the United Nations are depicted with the name of each country in white text below its flag. Artist's name "Broder", for Steve Broder, appears at the center bottom. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 7th item: Poster depicts a subdued color scene with a deceased sailor in a blue uniform with white trim lying on a beach in the surf and a sunset sky, against a black background, with text below that reads "a careless word… – A Needless Loss." Artist's name printed below the picture "Anton Otto Fischer." Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. (for the full description and condition report, please visit our website at http://www.caseantiques.com).
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