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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
Free Labor Will Win
Anton Bruehl (1900-1982) · War Production Board, 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 photographic poster from Anton Bruehl's camera, issued by the War Production Board, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-835, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The War Production Board, set up in January 1942 under Executive Order 9024, turned peacetime industry to war work. Bruehl was an Australian-born American fashion photographer, and the image is his photograph.
What to notice
The word free in the title, the claim the whole sheet rests on.
A free hand, claimed as a weapon.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Anton Bruehl (1900-1982)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Production Board, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514329, local id 44-PA-835), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514329 · 44-PA-835
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 514329, 44-PA-835): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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