Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
"Attack, Attack - Buy War Bonds" World War II Bonds/Loan Poster, 1942 |
Object Name |
Poster |
Scope & Content |
"Attack, Attack - Buy War Bonds" World War II Bonds/Loan Poster, 1942. 40 x 28 poster printed in shades of green, brown, and gray, with a very narrow white border. An illustration that covers the entire poster depicts several soldiers; the two in the right foreground brandish their rifles and charge into battle and one in the bottom left aims a machine gun. A few more soldiers and a tank charge into battle as well in the background. Behind them is a beach and above them fly dozens of bomber planes. In the bottom left of the illustration in nearly-hidden black text is "FERDINAND WARREN / 42". White text reads "ATTACK / ATTACK / ATTACK" at the top and "BUY WAR BONDS" at the bottom. Fine print at the bottom center reads "U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1942--O-497775" and "WSS 697-B". |
Date |
1942 |
Creator |
United States War Production Board |
Catalog Number |
1982.166.001 |
Collection |
Archival Collection |
Notes |
"Ferdinand Warren was born in Independence, Missouri in 1899 and spent his life in Missouri, New York and Georgia. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute where after he lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York and Decatur, Georgia. Warren began his art career creating war bond posters during World War II. After the war, he continued his career as a commercial artist and became a faculty member at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia." [http://www.askart.com/artist/Ferdinand_Earl_Warren/25777/Ferdinand_Earl_Warren.aspx 03/05/2018] "War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. In practice, modern governments finance war by putting additional money into circulation, and the function of the bonds is to remove money from circulation and help to control inflation." During WWII, American advertising campaigns for war bonds were extremely widespread, and "over the course of the war 85 million Americans purchased bonds totalling approximately $185 billion." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bond#United_States_2 03/05/2018] |
Category |
Posters |
Search Terms |
Poster Posters War World War II World War Two WWII |
Subjects |
Advertisements Posters Propaganda War War bonds & funds War posters World War II |
Credit line |
SMCHA Collection |