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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
Let 'Em Have It: Buy Extra Bonds
Bernard Perlin (1918-2014) · 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 war bond poster Bernard Perlin made, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-1253, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The Treasury ran eight War Loan Drives between 1941 and 1946, and this sheet asks for a bond beyond the ones already bought. Perlin moved from New Deal social realism through war art and illustration to magic realism.
What to notice
The slang of the first line, let 'em have it, and the one word that does the selling: extra.
The extra dollar, fired with the rest.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Bernard Perlin (1918-2014)
- 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 514859, local id 44-PA-1253), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514859 · 44-PA-1253
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 514859, 44-PA-1253): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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