Opening The Atlas
The next picture is on its way.
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
Use Your Skill to Build and Fight
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · 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 production poster held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-257, gathered by the Office of War Information's Bureau of Special Services and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The War Production Board, set up in January 1942 under Executive Order 9024, converted peacetime industry to war work, and skilled hands were what the conversion lacked.
What to notice
Build and fight joined by one conjunction, the factory and the front in one sentence.
A trade, drafted.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Production
- 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 513699, local id 44-PA-257), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513699 · 44-PA-257
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 513699, 44-PA-257): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
More from the Atlas
Painted Whiskers, our sister studio, will paint your pet in this school’s hand, after Be a Cadet Nurse: The Girl with a Future. See Yours Painted ↗