Overview
- Artwork Title
- Deliver us from evil - buy war bonds
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1943
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
- Markings
- front, top : Deliver us from evil
front, bottom, blue ink : Buy War Bonds
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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War propaganda
- Object Type
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Posters, American (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Black and white photo offset poster with an image of a young child against the background of a swastika and a cloudy sky with text at the top and bottom.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
- Funding Note
- The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by the Crown Family.
- Record last modified:
- 2025-01-02 11:04:10
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn193325
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Also in War Bonds poster collection
The collection consists of a war bond poster and a war propaganda poster produced in the United States during World War II.
Date: 1942-1943
US War Bonds poster of three small children under the shadow of a swastika
Object
U.S. War Bond poster designed by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, after America's entry into World War II. It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. The poster was distributed by the United States Treasury Department and implied that purchasing war bonds would keep the children safe from the Nazi threat. War bonds were offered by the United States Government for purchase by the public; purchasers would keep the bond and be reimbursed for its return at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and an investment in victory. U.S. posters tended to focus on patriotic themes and appeals to emotion to garner support. This poster was one in a series of war bond posters that resulted from a wartime partnership between Abbott Laboratories and the U.S. Treasury. Abbott Laboratories also recruited artists to document the work of the military branches during the war. Smith was one of more than two dozen artists sponsored by Abbott and hosted by the War Department to serve in battle as a combat artist. In 1943, Smith spent three months on aircraft carriers in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, creating works on naval aviation operations. In 1944, he was sent to England to document the Medical Corps’ work there. He volunteered to stay beyond his tour in order to witness the Normandy invasion in June. By the end of the war, 85 million Americans had purchased over $185 billion in war bonds.



