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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
The Fighting Filipinos
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of Special Services, Commonwealth of the Philippines, 1617 Massachusetts Avenue, 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 by the Office of Special Services of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, from 1617 Massachusetts Avenue, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-1912 and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Japan occupied the Philippines in 1942, and the Commonwealth's government carried on from the United States; this office spoke for it there.
What to notice
The imprint naming the Commonwealth of the Philippines and its Massachusetts Avenue address.
A country in exile, keeping its name.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of Special Services, Commonwealth of the Philippines, 1617 Massachusetts Avenue, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515591, local id 44-PA-1912), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515591 · 44-PA-1912
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 515591, 44-PA-1912): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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