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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
He's Watching You
Glenn Grohe · 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 careless-talk poster by Glenn Grohe, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-99 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The careless-talk campaign warned that a word overheard could cost a ship, and its most famous line, loose lips might sink ships, was created by the War Advertising Council and used on Office of War Information posters.
What to notice
The he of the headline is never named, and the reader supplies the enemy.
An unseen eye, kept on every conversation.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Glenn Grohe
- 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 513552, local id 44-PA-99), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513552 · 44-PA-99
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 513552, 44-PA-99): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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