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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
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Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · U.S. Treasury Department, poster WSS 339-C, 1942
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 war bond poster of Uncle Sam, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1942 as WSS 339-C, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-186.
Why it matters
The Treasury's eight War Loan Drives between 1941 and 1946 sold bonds for the war, and the printer's code, 1942-O-469197, dates this sheet to the first full year of the American war.
What to notice
The imprint at the foot, U.S. Government Printing Office 1942-O-469197 and WSS 339-C.
The old uncle, called back for a second war.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Printer / house
- U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
- Campaign
- War Bonds · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Treasury Department, poster WSS 339-C, 1942
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513632, local id 44-PA-186), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513632 · 44-PA-186
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 513632, 44-PA-186): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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