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Power for defense. Rural Electrification Administration. U.S. Department of Agriculture / Beall. – Historic Reproduction

Power for defense. Rural Electrification Administration. U.S. Department of Agriculture / Beall., [between 1940 and 1950] — vintage poster
Power for defense. Rural Electrification Administration. U.S. Department of Agriculture / Beall., [between 1940 and 1950]. Vintage poster from the Work & Industry collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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*Power for defense* casts rural electrification as part of the national defense effort, a theme its catalog record links to bombers. The Rural Electrification Administration, a Department of Agriculture agency founded in 1935, was created to bring power lines to farms and small towns that private utilities had largely skipped. By the early 1940s, those rural lines were also supplying energy that the government considered vital to war production, and the poster makes that link directly. Credited to Beall, it shows how federal agencies promoted New Deal programs as the country moved toward wartime mobilization.

Created / published[between 1940 and 1950]
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenrePosters American 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. J6. 193-. Promotional goal: U.S. J3. 193-. Promotional goal: U.S. D61. 193-.
SubjectsUnited States.--Rural Electrification Administration--1940-1950. National defense--United States--1940-1950. Bombers--United States--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,152 × 1,468 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216771

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