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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
Five Sullivan Brothers: They Did Their Part
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · 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 naming the five Sullivan brothers, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-777, gathered by the Office of War Information's Bureau of Special Services and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa, served together on the light cruiser USS Juneau and were all killed when she was sunk on 13 November 1942. The sheet asks the reader to do a part that matches theirs.
What to notice
The past tense of the title, they did, set against the present tense the reader is left to supply.
One family's whole share, already paid.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- War Bonds
- 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 514265, local id 44-PA-777), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514265 · 44-PA-777
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 514265, 44-PA-777): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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