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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
Strong in the Strength of the Lord
David Stone Martin (1913-1992) · Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 8, 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 poster David Stone Martin made for the Office of War Information in 1942, OWI Poster No. 8, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-190.
Why it matters
It carries the number OWI Poster No. 8 and the date 1942, the year the Office of War Information was founded. Martin is best known for his drawings on jazz record albums.
What to notice
The scriptural cadence of the title, strong twice over, and the OWI number in the imprint.
Faith, enlisted in the first year.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- David Stone Martin (1913-1992)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 8, 1942
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513636, local id 44-PA-190), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513636 · 44-PA-190
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 513636, 44-PA-190): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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