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Collection: Gettysburg College Digital Humanities Projects
Description: "During World War II, propaganda posters produced under the auspices of the Office of War Information and the War Advertising Council were a fixture of daily life in the United States. From their ubiquitous positions in shop windows, post offices, streetcars, trains, and office/factory breakrooms, the posters kept the war effort constantly in Americans’ sightlines as they went about their daily business. Visually eye-catching and relatively inexpensive and easy to produce, the posters sought to shape the behavior of citizens in ways that would support the nation’s military effort; they implored Americans to sacrifice, conserve resources, pursue war-related work and volunteer service, purchase war bonds, police their speech/behavior, and enlist in the military, among other desired aims. While many posters were aimed at the broadest audience possible, others were targeted to certain segments of the population, such as homemakers, factory workers, farmers, racial minorities and young people of enlistment age. As artifacts of the 1940s, some of these posters reflect ideas about race, gender, and war aims that are troubling to modern audiences yet nonetheless provide valuable windows into the ways that everyday Americans experienced World War II. Special Collections & College Archives, Musselman Library is home to a remarkable collection of 114 World War II propaganda posters. The majority are related to the American homefront, although Allied nations such as Great Britain, France, and Canada are represented in the collection as well. This primary source collection began as an effort to teach about World War II through visuals produced during the era. The bulk of the collection came to Gettysburg College through a collaborative preservation project with the Adams County Historical Society. The entire collection can be viewed on GettDigital." - From website.
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Subject: World War II--Propaganda, Gettysburg College--Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, Undergraduate research
Creator: Titus, Jill Ogline
Source: https://jilloglinetitus.sites.gettysburg.edu/propaganda-posters/world-war-2-propaganda-posters
Language: EN
Date: 2019
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Contributor: HIST 301, Fall 2019
Collector: Miessler, R.C.
Platforms: Scalar, StorymapJS, TimelineJS
Rights: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Relation: https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p126301coll3/
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