Save your cans: help pass the ammunition

Name/Title

Save your cans: help pass the ammunition

Description

An woman's arm holding a tomato can appears on the bottom right side of the poster. The can image is repeated and runs into the painting. As the cans get smaller, they change into a chain of bullets that a soldier is feeding into his gun. In the background are a large red explosion and an airplane falling from the sky

Collection

Poster Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

McClelland Barclay

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

U.S. Government Printing Office

Date made

1943

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Notes

War Production Board. Salvage Division

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

War posters, War production, Education, Ammunition, Recycling, Machine guns, Cans

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

33-1/2 in

Width

24-11/16 in