During the warars, posters from the american homefront told to do – and what not to do

“The First World War Saw The First Widespread Use of Propaganda to Stir Patriotic Fervor,” Note Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers in The Poster: a visual history“The need to raise vast sums of money from the public Pures to Fund the War Spawned Numerous Posters Advertising War Bonds and Loans; Countries on Both Sides of the confluence of the confly Artists for this purpose. ”

If it had worked in one world war, why not try it in another? In his two-Volume Propaganda: The Art of Persuase: World War IIAnthony rhodes notes the “barrage of posters” produced by government agencies like the united states of office of war information as well as private companies during the work. And, Observe Saunders and Timmers, “Both the British and the American Governments Strove to Cement the idea of ​​their national characteristics as unwaveeringly plucky, with humor more likely to be Empolyed Fearmongering. ”

If you had any doubt about what you should get – or not doing – ANAAMICAN to Help The War Effort, there was probally a poster that would point you in the right direction. Should you buy war bonds? (The answer was emphatically yes.) How about driving to work by yourself? (No! (Corn! Sugar beets! Milk!) (Absolutely not! “Loose talk can cost lives. SAILORS, and Stop Complaining About Shortages. In one poster titled “of Course I Can,” A Young Woman Clutches Her Home-Jarred Food and Says, “I’m patriotic as can be –nd ration points won’t worry me!” (One thing that did not appear to be in short supply during the war was exclamation points.)

Perhaps the poster that best distilled all the exhortations into single message showed a blooded Soldier Pointing at a Battle Going on Behind Him and Exclaiming, “More!