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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
The Enemy Is Listening
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of Naval Intelligence, FBI and Office of Facts and Figures, 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 issued jointly by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the FBI and the Office of Facts and Figures, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-1909 and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Three agencies put their names to one warning. The careless-talk campaign's best-known line, loose lips might sink ships, came from the War Advertising Council.
What to notice
The imprint at the foot, ONI, FBI and Office of Facts and Figures, three issuing bodies on a single sheet.
Every room, assumed to have a stranger in it.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Printer / house
- U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
- Campaign
- Careless Talk
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of Naval Intelligence, FBI and Office of Facts and Figures, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515588, local id 44-PA-1909), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515588 · 44-PA-1909
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 515588, 44-PA-1909): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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