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Sample Posters
from "Powers of Persuasion-Poster Art of World
War II"
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The Sowers
by Thomas Hart Benton, 1942
NARA Still Picture Branch (NWDNS-44-PA-1966)
Artist Thomas Hart Benton believed that it was the artist's role
either to fight or to "bring the bloody actual realities of this war home to the
American people." In a series of eight paintings, Benton portrayed the violence and
barbarity of fascism. "The Sowers" shows the enemy as bulky, brutish monsters
tossing human skulls onto the ground. |
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 We Can Do It!
by J. Howard Miller
Produced by Westinghouse for the War Production Co-Ordinating Committee
Of all the images of working women during World War II, the image of
women in factories predominates. Rosie the Riveter--the strong, competent woman dressed in
overalls and bandanna--was introduced as a symbol of patriotic womanhood. The
accoutrements of war work--uniforms, tools, and lunch pails--were incorporated into the
revised image of the feminine ideal. |
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United We Win
Photograph by Alexander Liberman, 1943
Printed by the Government Printing Office for the
War Manpower Commission
The Government was well aware of the demoralizing effects
of racial prejudice on the African American population. In its publicity campaigns, the
Government presented an idealized view of race relations in America. Racial tensions
disappeared in portrayals of black Americans as full and equal participants in American
society. The images of racial harmony belied the profound feelings of unrest that, on
occasion, erupted into episodes of racial violence during the war years. . |
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