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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Americans Suffer When Careless Talk Kills
Harry Anderson · Office of War Information, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A poster Harry Anderson made for the careless-talk campaign, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-355, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The campaign's best-known line, loose lips might sink ships, came from the War Advertising Council and ran on Office of War Information posters, and the OWI's Bureau of Special Services gathered this sheet into the series.
What to notice
The headline puts the verb at the end, so the sentence closes on kills.
Gossip, entered in the casualty list.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Harry Anderson
- Campaign
- Careless Talk
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513805, local id 44-PA-355), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513805 · 44-PA-355
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 513805, 44-PA-355): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted. The record title reads American's; the sheet's own line, as the DPLA file gives it, is Americans Suffer When Careless Talk Kills.
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