Don't save his face--Every blow counts in the battle for production / Packer. – Vintage Print
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Don't save his face--Every blow counts in the battle for production / Packer.
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The title is a pun: "Don't save his face" plays on the idiom about preserving dignity, and the poster urges Americans to hit the enemy hard instead of sparing him. Packer's cartoon was published around 1942, the year after Pearl Harbor, when the United States was converting factories to war output and posters like this one pressed workers to speed up production. Its subject pairs the industrial effort at home with a Japanese military figure as the adversary, a common wartime framing. The Victory Builders label shows it came from a commercial cartoon syndicate that supplied editorial art to newspapers and industry, so it was likely meant to be reprinted and posted widely.
| Created / published | c1942. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S.J49. 1942 and J71.F2 1942. Copyright by Victory Builders" Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--American. World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Japanese. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,690 × 2,159 px · prints to 6 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215814 |
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