USA WW2 Home Front Propaganda Collection: For an easier reading and maintenance, these posters are divided into subsections based on subject in posters; Books for Soldiers, Fire Fighting, Food & Nutrition, Postal Services, Price Control & Rationing, Salvage, Saving on Gas & Transport, Savings on Water, War Time Advertising and General Home Front. If you know anything more about these posters than mentioned, all help is appreciated.
USA WW2 Home Front Poster Collection:
Books for Soldiers:
1943 Give Your Good Books To Our Fighting Men
Fire Fighting:
1942 careless matches aid the Axis. Prevent Forest Fires!
Food & Nutrition:
1943 Eat the Basic 7… Every Day! Eat A Lunch That Packs A Punch!
1943 Food Is A Weapon. Don’t Waste It! Buy Wisely – Cook Carefully – Eat It All
1943 Meat is material of war, use it wisely!
1944 Every Child Needs A Good School Lunch
1944 For work. For play. 3 ‘squares’ a day. Eat The Basic 7 Way
1945 Grow Your Own. Be sure!
1945 A Message About Food From The President Of The United States
Postal Services:
1942 Reach Your Boy Overseas by Vmail
1943 He’s Sure to Get V…- Mail. Safest Overseas Mail
1945 Be with him at every mail call. V-Mail Is Private, Reliable, Patriotic
1944 Don’t let this happen to you! Too Little. Too Late. Order Coal Now!
Price Control & Rationing:
1943 Do with less – so they’ll have enough! Rationing Gives You Your Fair Share
1944 Keep The Home Front Pledge. Pay no more than Ceiling Prices. Pay your Points in full
Red Cross:
Salvage:
1942 Keep America Rolling! Save your 5 best Tires. Sell others to Uncle Sam
1942 Scrap
1942 Get In The Scrap
1943 Sugar and spice and everything nice… That’s What Bombers Are Made Of
Saving on Gas & Transport:
1941 Defense needs Rubber. Save Your Tires
1942 Hitler Rides In The Empty Seat. Double Up!
1942 They’ve got more important places to go than you!… Save Rubber. Check Your Tires Now
1943 Is Your Trip Necessary? Needless Travel interferes with the War Effort
1943 I’ll carry mine too! Trucks And Tires Must Last Till Victory
1943 Millions of troops are on the move… Is Your trip necessary?
1944 Have You Really Tried To Save Gas By Getting Into A Car Club?
1945 Could this be you? Don’t Travel – Unless Your Trip Helps Win The War
1945 Me travel? … not this summer. Vacation At Home
Saving On Water:
Unsorted Home Front Posters:
1942 Homemaker’s War Guide
1943 Visit Your Schools. Education for Victory. American Education Week
War Time Advertising:
1942 ‘He doesn’t say where … but he got the Camels!’ Send him his favorite … Camels
1942 Attention! All You Men In Uniform… Safe-T Cones
1942 Claudette Colbert is doing a grand job in the Volunteer Army Canteen Service. Chesterfield
1942 Deanne Fureau, member of the Motor Transport Corps of ‘The American Women’s Voluntary Services’. Chesterfield
1942 Keep ‘Em Smokin’, It’s Chesterfield
1942 Michigan Football Roster, Minnesota Football Roster, It’s all the Go, Chesterfield
1942 Rosalind Russell. All Clear. That’s The Smoker’s Signal For A Mild Cool Cigarette. Chesterfield
1942 Joan Bennett. His Cigarette and Mine. It’s Chesterfield
1942 Where I work, It’s Chesterfield
1942 More than ever It’s Chesterfield
1942 ‘Coca-Cola goes along’
1942 Pause… Work refreshed. Coca-Cola
1943 Standard Equipment Camel. First In The Service
1943 Have You A Man In The Army? Do remember _ Camels are first in the service
1943 There’s just one cigarette for me _ Camel … says ‘Red’ Hulse
1943 They’ve Got What it Takes. First In The Service. Camels
1943 It’s Chesterfield For Mildness And Taste
1943 Soldiers On Skis – The Cigarette For Me Is Camel … – says former Olympic ace Dick Durrance who trains ski troopers for the Army. First In The Service. Camel
1943 Women in the War, Co-Ed leaves Campus to fill a Man’s job. Camel
1943 But there’s no hiding Chesterfield’s Milder Better Taste
1943 On The Long Voyage Out And The Long Voyage Home… where a cigarette counts most… It’s Chesterfield
1943 U.S. Marine Raiders, Watch Our Smoke …. It’s Chesterfield For Mildness And Taste
1943 Where A Cigarette Counts Most It’s Chesterfield
1943 They’ve Got What it Takes!, First In The Service, Camels
1943 They’ve Got What it Takes! They Dive At 125 M.P.H. First In The Service, Camels
1943 You Want Steady Nerves when you’re flying Uncle Sam’s bombers across the ocean, Steady Smokers Stick To Camels
1943 Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake. At Home and Over There It’s Chesterfield
1943 first choice Chesterfield
1943 Head and Shoulders Over Others, Chesterfield
1943 It’s Chesterfield for my taste
1943 WAFS. Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. With us It’s Chesterfield
1943 What I Can’t Do Without It’s Chesterfield
1943 Have a Coca-Cola = Merry Christmas … or how Americans spread the holiday spirit overseas
1944 ‘Hi ya, solder!’ Cottons Pacific Rayons
1944 They’ve Got What It Takes! ‘Get That Sub!’, First In The Service Camels
1944 Over the Jumps _ on Uncle Sam’s ‘Iron Ponies’. They’ve Got What it Takes! First in the Service. Camels
1944 The Marines are landing… on the Jump! Camels
1944 ‘Just like a taste of home’ First in the Service – Camels
1944 Ernie Pyle, World-Famous War Correspondent with Chesterfield
1944 Have a ‘Coke’ = Kia Ora … or sealing friendships in New Zealand. Coca-Cola
1944 Same girl… Same smile… Same cigarette. Camel
1944 Greetings, brother… Have a Coca-Cola … or initiating a new subject of Neptune
1944 Have a Coca-Cola = As you were … a way to relax on a battleship
1944 Have a Coca-Cola = Howdy, Neighbor … or greeting friends at home and abroad
1945 Here you sit and in I walk and say. Your slippers and your Chesterfields, Sir
1945 One for All. With the downright Smoking Pleasure they all want … Chesterfield
1945 Checkmate, pardner… Have a Coca-Cola … refreshment fulfills a friendly mission
1945 Everybody’s happy… Have a Coke … the pause that refreshes brightens the trip. Coca-Cola
1945 Have a Coca-Cola = You’re my kind … or allies enjoy a friendly pause
1945 Now you’re talking… Have a Coca-Cola … or tuning in refreshment on the Admiralty Isles
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