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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
This Man Is Your Friend: Ethiopian
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of Facts and Figures, 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 in the Office of Facts and Figures series This Man Is Your Friend, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1942, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-2097B.
Why it matters
Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, six years before Pearl Harbor, and the series introduced each ally to Americans by nationality.
What to notice
The nationality set after the title as a label, Ethiopian, one sheet in a lettered run with 44-PA-2097C.
An ally whose war began first.
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
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of Facts and Figures, 1942
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515794, local id 44-PA-2097B), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515794 · 44-PA-2097B
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 515794, 44-PA-2097B): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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