Name/Title
Double War Stamps Poster, 1942Entry/Object ID
2025.56.2Description
Acc. No. 25.56.2
Subject Category: WWII (World War Two)
Date or Period: 1942
Object: double poster
Description: two posters on one sheet, with drawings in black of men, colored in in orange and teal/green, with dotted lines for cutting them apart.
At left: Heading: ‘Lexington, 1775’. Image shows four colonial freedom fighters. Three of them are pointing their muskets and one appears to have fallen on his weapon. Text under image: ‘ They fought for Freedom / We fight to keep it / BUY WAR STAMPS & BONDS.’
At right: Heading: ‘Independence / July 4, 1776’. Image shows Thomas Jefferson reading the Declaration of Independence while 4 other signers of it are seated around a table listening. Text under image: ‘They kept the faith and so do you every time / you lend a dime for WAR SAVINGS STAMPS.’
Size: 25 x 19".
Size each within dotted lines: 18 1/2 x 12” (45 x 30 cm)
History of Object: Small color posters promoting war stamps. Artist: Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974. Created for the United States. Dept. of the Treasury, publisher: United States. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1942. The poster was published as a sheet of 4 posters, War Savings Staff Poster 668; the acquisition only has the top two.
Found in museum storage awaiting processing, without donor information.
Donor: unknown
Donation Date: unknown, pre-2019
Catalog Date: 4/12/2025