Remember Dec. 7th!
Object numberMO 2005.13.40.19.1
Name
Poster
Artist
Allen Russell Saalburg
(American, 1889 - 1987)
Maker
U.S. Government Printing Office
(American, founded 1861)
Issuing Body
U.S. Office of War Information
(American, 1942 - 1945)
Date1942
Mediumpaper
Dimensionsoverall H 28 in x W 22 in (71.1 cm x 55.9 cm )
DescriptionA color poster featuring an illustration of a tattered 48-star American flag flying at half-mast. The background of a blue sky is partially obscured with fire and smoke rising up from the bottom of the poster. At the top of the poster, in white text, is part of a quote from Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address: …we here highly resolve that these dead / shall not have dies in vain…" Red text at the bottom of the poster reads: REMEMBER DEC. 7th! Additional small text in the bottom margin reads: OWI Poster No. 14 / U. S. Government Printing Office : 1942-O-491977.
Additional DetailsCredit LineGift from the Adriance Memorial Library
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesOriginal Posters from World War I and World War II (National Archives Identifier 739394)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.Collections
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