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WWII Posters Collection, WWII POSTERS

Abstract

The WWII Posters Collection contains 662 total original propaganda posters, including 308 duplicates, which illustrate aspectss of the United States' involvement in World War II. The collection is arranged thematically into 15 series. The majority of the posters were created or distributed by state or national organizations, including the Office of War Information. Many of these posters are from organizations or U.S. military branch recruiting offices in North Carolina, sent to the State Archives of North Carolina during and just after the war. The majority of the posters encourage viewers to support the war effort by enlisting in the armed forces, conserving food and other resources, purchasing war bonds, participating in service and relief organizations, and promoting patriotism.

Military imagery, such as soldiers, sailors, tanks, ships, and aircraft; and patriotic imagery, such as American flags, eagles, and Uncle Sam are featured prominently throughout the posters. Images of women are also prominent, being shown in their roles as mothers, teachers, and factory workers, in addition to serving as nurses and in the armed forces. The importance of civilians' contributions to the war effort is substantial, whether it be through cultivating victory gardens, preparing for air raids, or abiding by rationing orders. Several of the posters seek to educate the public about America's allies and the newly-formed United Nations. While most of the posters present positive images, several include representations of Hitler and swastikas, wounded or dead soldiers, and suffering people in Europe.

Descriptive Summary

Title
WWII Posters Collection
Call Number
WWII POSTERS
Creator
Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina
Date
1940-1946, undated
Extent
0.400 cubic feet, 206.000 gigabytes, 8.000 items
Language
English Italian
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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Preferred Citation

[Individual poster number], WWII Posters Collection, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North
Carolina, Raleigh, NC

Collection Overview

This collection contains 662 total original propaganda posters, including 308 duplicates, which illustrate aspectss of the United States' involvement in World War II. The collection is arranged thematically into 15 series. The majority of the posters were created or distributed by state or national organizations, including the Office of War Information. Many of these posters are from organizations or U.S. military branch recruiting offices in North Carolina, sent to the State Archives of North Carolina during and just after the war. The majority of the posters encourage viewers to support the war effort by enlisting in the armed forces, conserving food and other resources, purchasing war bonds, participating in service and relief organizations, and promoting patriotism.

Military imagery, such as soldiers, sailors, tanks, ships, and aircraft; and patriotic imagery, such as American flags, eagles, and Uncle Sam are featured prominently throughout the posters. Images of women are also prominent, being shown in their roles as mothers, teachers, and factory workers, in addition to serving as nurses and in the armed forces. The importance of civilians' contributions to the war effort is substantial, whether it be through cultivating victory gardens, preparing for air raids, or abiding by rationing orders. Several of the posters seek to educate the public about America's allies and the newly-formed United Nations. While most of the posters present positive images, several include representations of Hitler and swastikas, wounded or dead soldiers, and suffering people in Europe.

All of the WWII posters [or one copy of each poster, where multiple copies exist for the same poster] are available online for viewing through the North Carolina Digital Collections' digital WWII collection here: https://www.digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/custom/wwii. Type in the individual poster number from the finding aid for the collection, and you will be able to see the poster and get more information on its contents. Researchers are encouraged to use the digital surrogates online first before requesting the physical copies of the posters.

Contents of the Collection

1. Armed Forces Recruiting

Posters 1.1-1.7
Folder 1
The U.S. Marines Want You
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.1
Marines on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.2
USMC Let's Go Get 'Em! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.3
Men of 18 and 19 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.4
Right Is Might 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.5
We have just begun to fight! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.6.c1-c4
You Bet I'm Going Back To Sea! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.7
Posters 1.8-11
Folder 2
Americans will always fight for liberty 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.8.c1-c1
Want Action? Join U.S. Marine Corps! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.9.c1-c2
Soldier's Life 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.10
The Educational Program of the United States Army
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.11
Posters 1.12-1.20
Folder 3
Uniform Insignia--United States Navy 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.12
Healthy Bodies and Active Minds Developed in Men of the United States Navy 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.13
Let's Hit 'Em with Everything We've Got!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.14
Dish It Out with the Navy 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.15
Your Job in the Navy--How to Tell It! What it Means!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.16
Announcing New and Higher Navy Pay 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.17
Help Keep It Great 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.18
Take the Wheel 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.19
Your Navy--First Line of Attack 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.20
Posters 1.21-1.25
Folder 4
Enemy Sighted--Attack! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.21
Your Fleet Guarantees Freedom 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.22.c1-c
They Did Their Part 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.23.c1-c
So the Jap's a Snap? I Can't See It 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.24
More Firepower to `Em! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.1.25

2. Women's Recruiting

Posters 2.1-2.12
Folder 5
Women! They can't do any more--but you can 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.1
Your Duty Ashore...His Afloat 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.2
SPARS
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.3
Nurses Are Needed Now
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.4.c1-c2
Be a Marine--Free a Marine to Fight
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.5
Save his life...and find your own. Be a nurse 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.6
Woman Power--Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.7
Women...our wounded need your care! 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.8
Ross, Alex U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.9.c1-c3
Edmundson Enlist in a Proud Profession 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.10.c1-c
The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.11
Women in the War--We Can't Win Without Them 1942 [oversized]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.12
Posters 2.13-2.18
Folder 6
Enlist in a Proud Profession 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.13
Share the Deeds of Victory--Join the WAVES 1943 [oversized]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.14
Be a Cadet Nurse--The Girl With A Future 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.15.c1-c
Become a nurse--Your country needs you 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.16.c1-c
You Are Needed Now--Join the Army Nurse Corps 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.17.c1-c
Our Wounded Need Help!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.2.18

3. Labor

Posters 3.1-3.6
Folder 7
Don't Let This Bug Get You! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.1
Here's a War Job For You
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.2.c1-c2
I Need Your Skill in a War Job 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.3.c1-c6
Twice a Patriot! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.4
Teaching is war-work, too
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.5
Veterans Jobs in the Federal Government are open to you 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.6
Posters 3.7-3.17
Folder 8
More Production 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.7
American Labor...Producing for Attack 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.8
They'll Let Us Know When To Quit! 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.9
Get the Jap and Get It Over 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.10
Take Care! Idle Hands Work for Hitler 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.11
The Battle of Production 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.12.c1-c
Thank God for American Industry 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.13
When You're A.W.O.L. You're Working For The Axis 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.14
Big Things From Little Ideas Grow 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.15
You, too, are needed in a War Job! 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.16.c1-c
United We Win 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.3.17

4. Food Production and Conservation

Posters 4.1-4.12
Folder 9
U.S. Needs Us Strong
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.1
Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.2.c1-c2
Can All You Can 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.3.c1-c2
Strong, Grover Grow Your Own--Be Sure! 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.4
For Work, For Play, 3 "squares" a day 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.5
Eat The Right Food--America Needs You Strong
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.6
Food Is A Weapon--Don't Waste It 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.7
Food Will Win the War
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.8
The United States Food Administration urgently requests
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.9
Grow Your Own, Can Your Own 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.10.c1-c
Going our way? 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.11
Your Victory Garden counts more than ever! 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.12
Posters 4.13-4.16
Folder 10
Every Child Needs A Good School Lunch
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.13
Work on a farm...this summer
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.14.c1-c
Shoot to Kill! Protect Your Victory Garden 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.15.c1-c
Where our men are fighting, Our FOOD is fighting 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.16.c1-c
Posters 4.17-4.19
Folder 11
For health...eat some food from each group...every day! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.17
Plant A Victory Garden 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.18.c1-c
Guard your family's health 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.4.19.c1-c

5. Resource Conservation

Posters 5.1-5.8
Folder 12
Travel? Not This Summer. Vacation at Home. 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.1.c1-c2
Is your trip necessary? 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.2.c1-c3
Millions of troops are on the move Is your trip necessary? 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.3.c1-c2
War Traffic Must Come First
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.4.c1-c2
What are buses doing to win the "Battle of Transportation..."
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.5
I'll carry mine, too! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.6.c1-c8
Won't you give my boy a chance to get home? 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.7.c1-c2
Could this be you? 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.8
Posters 5.9-5.17
Folder 13
Get in the Scrap [oversized]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.9
Keep Scrapping
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.10
Deliver More Now--Defense Production Depends on You
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.11
How Steel is Made
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.12.c1-c
Save Your Cans, Help Pass the Ammunition
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.13.c1-c
Get in the Scrap 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.14
Win With Tin 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.15
Kling He Needs More Than Guts
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.16
Give 'em the stuff to fight with 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.17
Posters 5.18-5.23
Folder 14
Save Waste Fats for Explosives 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.18.c1-c
Save Waste Fats 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.19
Save Waste Fats for Gunpowder
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.20
Housewives, Save Waste Fats for Explosives!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.21
Use it up--wear it out--make it do! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.22.c1-c
Keep the Home Front Pledge 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.23.c1-c
Posters 5.24-5.28
Folder 15
Make this Pledge
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.24.c1-c
Keep Down Living Costs 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.25
Stamp Out Black Markets With Your Ration Stamps 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.26.c1-c
Let's Team Up to Keep Food Prices Down 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.27
Do with less--so they'll have enough! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.28.c1-c
Posters 5.29-5.39
Folder 16
We'll Take Care of the Rising Sun, You Take Care of Rising Prices
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.29.c1-c
I'm Out to Lick Runaway Prices
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.30
To Do My Part on the Home Front
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.31
How to Keep Your Food Bill Down
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.32
Cost of Living: 1918 versus 1944 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.33
New Ceiling List Prices Are Here 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.34
Here's How to Head Off Runaway Prices
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.35
For War Service 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.36.c1-c
Rationing Means a Fair Share for All of Us 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.37
Rationing Means a Fair Share for All of Us
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.38.c1-c
Americans! Share the Meat 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.39
Posters 5.40-5.54
Folder 17
Homemaker's War Guide 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.40
Pull down your shades!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.41
Fuel Fights! Save Your Share 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.42.c1-c
Don't Shiver Next Winter...Order Coal Now
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.43
Save Rubber 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.44.c1-c
All Fuel is Scarce, Plan For Winter Now 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.45
Serve Our Fighting Men Abroad, Conserve these Services at Home 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.46.c1-c
Start a Car Sharing Club/Start A "Shopping Day" Car Club
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.47
How to Keep Warm with Less Fuel this Winter
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.48
A Message to our Tenants From the Government--Help Stop Fuel Waste 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.49
Fuel for Them...Means Less for You!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.50.c1-c
Keep "Old Man Winter" Out
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.51
Insulate! Keep Warm with Less Fuel
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.52
They've got more important places to go than you 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.53
Ship Right for Victory--Prevent Loss and Damage
MilColl.WWII.Posters.5.54

6. Civilian Defense

Posters 6.1-6.7
Folder 18
Civilian Defense--Air Raid Warden Lives Here
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.1.c1-c2
Civilian Defense
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.2
Your Civil Defense Uniform
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.3
For Service in Civilian Defense 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.4
Official Civilian Defense Insignia 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.5.c1-c2
America Calling 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.6.c1-c1
America Calling, Take Your Place in Civil Defense 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.7
Posters 6.8-6.21
Folder 19
Operation of Emergency Medical Services 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.8
Chemical Warfare Agents 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.9
Typical Kilo Magnesium (Electron) Incendiary Bomb 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.10
How to Fight Fire Bombs 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.11
What to do in an air raid
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.12
Air Raid Instructions
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.13
New Air Raid Warning System 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.14.c1-c
General Layout, Civil Air Raid Warning Service
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.15
Emergency Medical Field Unit 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.16
The Block Plan for Civilian War Services 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.17.c1-c
Civilian Protection Organization for Raleigh, N.C.
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.18.c1-c
Raleigh's Citizen's Defense Corps
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.19.c1-c
Wars Against Fires of War 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.20.c1-c
Your job is important too 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.6.21

7. Safety

Posters 7.1-7.11
Folder 20
Our Carelessness--Their Secret Weapon 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.1.c1-c2
Our Carelessness--Their Secret Weapon
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.2.c1-c6
The U.S. Army says "Make Haste Safely" 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.3
Please Mister, Don't Be Careless 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.4
Prevent Forest Fires 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.5
Tools are weapons--Treat 'em right 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.6
Follow Safety Rules! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.7
I need you on the job full time...Don't get hurt 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.8.c1-c4
War Insurance Facts for Property Owners
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.9
Strike Down This Monster! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.10
Either Can Do the Enemy's Work
MilColl.WWII.Posters.7.11

8. Service and Relief Organizations

Posters 8.1-8.22
Folder 21
Get War Information Material at Your Public Library
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.1
An American Privilege
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.2
Meet Substitutes
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.3
Victory Gardens and Vitamin Diets on the Home Front
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.4
Food is War Power
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.5
Wartime Activities
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.6
Canada at War... Priorities
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.7
Military
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.8
Industry
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.9
Civilian
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.10
A Timely Career For Young Americans, Aviation
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.11
Twelve Noon
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.12
The New Mother Goose
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.13.c1-c
Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.14.c1-c
Leave Books Here
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.15
We Want Books, Victory Book Campaign
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.16
Give A Book For Our Fighting Men
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.17
Give More Books, Give Good Books 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.18
Peace with a Book from Your Library
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.19
United Through Books
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.20
United Through Books--The People, The Nation, The World
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.21
To All Who Use Libraries, This Is Are War
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.22
Posters 8.23-8.34
Folder 22
Give it Your Best 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.23.c1-c
Help Greece Now
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.24
You Can Set Their Spirit Free
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.25
United Yugoslav Relief Fund
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.26
American Relief for Czechoslovakia
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.27
Give! For Home Front, For War Front
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.28
Give to Your War Fund
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.29
United War Fund
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.30
Shoemaker Poland Crucified
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.31
Your Red Cross is at his side
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.32
For Our Own--For Our Allies
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.33
What did you do today--For freedom? 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.8.34

9. War Bonds

Posters 9.1-9.10
Folder 23
War Savings Stamps Here 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.1.c1-c2
War Bonds and Stamps Here 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.2
7th War Loan--Now All Together 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.3.c1-c3
Next! Japan--6th War Loan 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.4.c1-c4
Buy Now For The Bigger 7th War Loan Through Payroll Savings 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.5
...and WE talk about sacrifice 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.6.c1-c3
Protect His Future--Buy and Keep War Bonds 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.7.c1-c4
Invest in Invasion--Buy War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.8.c1-c2
To Keep Our Land Secure--Buy War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.9
Here Are 15 Smashing "By-Line" Stories With A Punch!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.10
Posters 9.11-9.18
Folder 24
Help Send Them What it takes to Win 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.11.c1-c
Jeep Campaign/Hey Gang!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.12.c1-c
Buy a Part for Our Jeep
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.13.c1-c
Women at War--Buy War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.14.c1-c
Starve the Squander Bug--Buy More War Bonds 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.15
United States Saving Bond 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.16
They fought for freedom--We fight to keep it 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.17.c1-c
Build For The Future--Buy U.S. Savings Bonds 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.18
Posters 9.19-9.24
Folder 25
Care is Costly--Buy and Hold War Bonds 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.19.c1-c
Doing all you can, brother? Buy War Bonds 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.20.c1-c
Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.21.c1-c
The Sky's the Limit! Keep Buying War Bonds 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.22
This is Our Goal in the 7th War Loan 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.23
Buy Bonds Regularly 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.24.c1-c
Posters 9.25-9.31
Folder 26
To Have and To Hold! War Bonds 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.25.c1-c
For Freedom's Sake--Buy War Bonds 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.26.c1-c
To Have and To Hold--Buy War Bonds 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.27.c1-c
She's Ready, Too--Buy War Bonds 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.28.c1-c
Keep him flying! Buy War Bonds 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.29.c1-c
This World Cannot Exist Half Slave And Half Free--Buy War Bonds 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.30
Buy War Bonds 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.31
Posters 9.32-9.47
Folder 27
For Liberty and Peace on Earth--Give War Bonds 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.32
Share the Care 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.33
Buy U.S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps Now 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.34.c1-c
Your War Bonds are a Stake in the Future 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.35
Buy War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.36
Speed the Day with War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.37
You buy 'em We'll fly 'em! Defense Bond Stamps 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.38
For Defense, Buy United States Savings Bonds and Stamps 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.39
85 Million Americans Buy War Bonds 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.40
Bonds Build Ships! Buy More Bonds 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.41
Carry Your Share--Buy War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.42
For All The Brave--Buy War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.43
If You Can't Go Across, Come Across! Buy War Bonds
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.44
Attack Attack Attack--Buy War Bonds 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.45.c1-c
You can't afford to miss either! Buy Bonds Every Payday 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.46.c1-c
Let 'em Have It--Buy Extra Bonds 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.47.c1-c
Posters 9.48-9.64
Folder 28
Your Bonds will Back the Attack!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.48.c1-c
Back 'em Up! Buy Extra Bonds! 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.49.c1-c
Back 'em Up--Buy Extra Bonds 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.50
We can't all go...but we can all help! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.51
Our Good Earth...Keep It Ours. Buy War Bonds 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.52
Don't Let That Shadow Touch Them--Buy War Bonds 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.53
Right in Der Fuehrer's Face!
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.54
Let's Go! 6th War Loan 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.55
Victory--now you can invest in it! 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.56
Top That 10% 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.57
1946 Resolution 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.58
Till We Meet Again--Buy War Bonds 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.59
They're fighting harder than ever, are you buying more war bonds than ever? 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.60
Give War Bonds, The Present with a Future 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.61
See "Here's Your Infantry" and Buy that Extra Bond 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.62
Buy That Invasion Bond! 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.63
They also serve, who buys War Bonds--7th War Loan 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.9.64

10. Careless Talk

Posters 10.1-10.9
Folder 29
The Sound That Kills 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.1
Don't Kill Her Daddy with Careless Talk 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.2
Americans Suffer When Careless Talk Kills 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.3.c1-c
If You Talk Too Much This Man May Die 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.4
We Caught Hell! Someone must have talked 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.5.c1-c
Careless Talk Costs Lives 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.6
Silence Means Security 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.7
Don't Fall for Enemy Propaganda
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.8
Warning from the FBI 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.9
Posters 10.10-10.15
Folder 30
Less Dangerous than Careless Talk 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.10
Because somebody talked! 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.11
Bits of Careless Talk Are Pieced Together By The Enemy 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.12
The Enemy is Listening
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.13
Wanted! For Murder 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.14.c1-
The battle-wise infantryman... 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.15.c1-
Posters 10.16-10.18
Folder 31
If you tell where he's going...He may never get there! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.16.c1-
A careless word...A needless sinking 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.17.c1-
I'm Counting on You! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.18.c1-
Posters 10.19-10.21
Folder 32
A careless word...A needless loss 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.19.c1-
Award For Careless Talk 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.20.c1-
Someone Talked! 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.10.21.c1-

11. Patriotism

Posters 11.1-11.4
Folder 33
The State of This Nation Is Good 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.1
This is the Enemy 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.2.c1-c
No Loyal Citizen Should be Denied the Right to Exercise the Responsibilities of Citizenship 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.3
Avenge December 7 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.4.c1-c
Posters 11.5-11.7
Folder 34
Remember Dec. 7th! 1941
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.5.c1-c
America--A Nation of One People from Many Countries 1940 [oversized]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.6
Strong in the Strength of the Lord 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.7.c1-c
Posters 11.8-11.11
Folder 35
Ours to Fight for--Freedom From Want 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.8.c1-c
Ours to Fight for--Freedom From Fear 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.9.c1-c
Save Freedom of Worship 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.10.c1-
Save Freedom of Speech
MilColl.WWII.Posters.11.11.c1-

12. United Nations and Allies

Posters 12.1-12.4
Folder 36
The United Nations--An Organization for Peace and World Progress 1945
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.1.c1-c
The United Nations Fight for Freedom 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.2.c1-c
United
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.3.c1-c
United We are Strong--United We Will Win
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.4.c1-c
Posters 12.5-12.13
Folder 37
Know the United Nations 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.5
This is Denmark--One of the United Nations
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.6
This is India--One of the United Nations
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.7
India
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.8
This Man is Your Friend--He Fights for Freedom 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.9
Greece Fights On 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.10.c1-
Great Britain--Her Natural and Industrial Resources
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.11
Lest We Regret
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.12.c1-
Help Britain Defend America--Speed Production
MilColl.WWII.Posters.12.13.c1-

13. Government and Military

Posters 13.1-13.19
Folder 38
The Atlantic Charter 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.1.c1-c
The War Program
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.2
United States Government--Executive Branch
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.3
The Government of the United States
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.4
Eastern Defense Command and First Army--Public Proclamation No. 1
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.5
Campo Prigionieri Di Guerra [Rules and regulations for the Italian prisoner of war camp at Williamston, NC, in 1944, in Italian]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.6
Campaign of the 45th Infantry Division--Sicily
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.7
Campaign of the 45th Infantry Division--Central Europe
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.8
Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division--Naples--Foggia
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.9
Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division--Rhineland
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.10
Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division--Southern France
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.11
Campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division--Rome--Arno
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.12
Wake Island--First Jap Cruiser of the War Sent to Bottom by U.S. Marine Fighting Plane
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.13
Wake Island--Jap War Bird Brought Down in Thrilling Dog Fight by Single Marine Plane
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.14
Wake Island--Jap Invasion Troops Meet Terrific Shell Fire of Heroic Marine Defenders
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.15
Wake Island--Grumman Fighting Plane Delivers Death Blow To Japanese Cruiser
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.16
Japan is a Tough Nut to Crack
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.17
American Aircraft Carrier: A Detailed Cross-Section of a Typical Modern Flat-Top 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.18
The South China Sea Area/The Mediterranean 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.13.19

14. Governor Cherry

Scope and Content:

The posters in this series were donated by Governor Robert Gregg Cherry. Each item has a hand-written note from the Governor.

Posters 14.1-14.5
Folder 39
Speed the Day 1946 [Signed, R. Gregg Cherry]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.14.1
Now For the Knockout [Signed, R. Gregg Cherry]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.14.2
100 Years of War [Signed, R. Gregg Cherry]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.14.3
Hail Victory [Signed, R. Gregg Cherry]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.14.4
The Box Score [Signed, R. Gregg Cherry]
MilColl.WWII.Posters.14.5

15. William Powell

Scope and Content:

The posters in this series were donated by William Powell.

Posters 15.1-15.22
Unnumbered Folder
War Shipments Mean Less Fuel for All 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.1
Ten Years Ago: The Nazis Burned These Books But Americans Can Still Read Them 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.2
If you tell where they're going...They may never get there 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.3
If you tell where they're going...They may never get there 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.4
Make Your Own Declaration of War: Buy War Bonds 1942
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.5
In Case of Fire 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.6
Carelessness Means Death-Take Care of Your Gas Mask 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.7
In the Face of Obstacles--Courage 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.8
You've Got What it Takes Soldier--Now Take Care of What You've Got! 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.9
America has plenty if it is used wisely 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.10
Could you have helped?
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.11
Soldier-take care of your G.I.--and it will take care of you 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.12
No one had to tell him to save food and equipment 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.13.c1-
U.S. means us, soldier it's our property, let's take care of it 1944
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.14
They'd give a lot to sleep in YOUR bed tonight--Take Care of Your Quarters
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.15
"...And bless those back home who, knowing of our sailing, kept that knowledge to themselves"--Silence means Security 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.16
"The Secret"--Silence means Security 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.17
"A wise old own sat in an oak"--Silence means Security 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.18
Silence means Surprise 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.19
For Them!--See your company commander today about your national service insurance
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.20
Let's Get this Shield Up!--Buy War Bonds Today 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.21
Battleship "X"--Story of the U.S.S. South Dakota 1943
MilColl.WWII.Posters.15.22

16. WWII Bond Press Files

WWII Bond Press Folder 1
Folder 1
WWII Bond Press Folder 2
Folder 2
WWII Bond Press Folder 3
Folder 3
WWII Bond Press Folder 4
Folder 4
WWII Bond Press Folder 5
Folder 5
WWII Bond Press Folder 6
Folder 6
WWII Bond Press Folder 7
Folder 7
WWII Bond Press Folder 8
Folder 8

Subject Headings

  • Posters
  • 1939-1945--War work--Red Cross World War
  • World War, 1939-1945--Home front
  • World War, 1939-1945--United States
  • World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States
  • North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian
  • World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States
  • World War, 1939-1945--Recruiting & enlistment--United States
  • World War, 1939-1945--United States--Posters