Don't talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it--spies are listening – Vintage Print
![Don't talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it--spies are listening, Boston : Walker Lith. & Pub. Co., [1918?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/17/17ac0f5b17fb-L.webp)
(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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Don't talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it--spies are listening comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Don't talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it--spies are listening
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Here the German Emperor Wilhelm II is drawn as the spider at the center of a sprawling web, a metaphor that makes the poster's warning about unseen threads hard to miss. Printed in Boston by the Walker Lithograph & Publishing Company, it belongs to the wave of American war posters that followed the nation's 1917 entry into World War I, when fears of German spies and saboteurs ran high. Its slogan asks ordinary citizens to hold their tongues and help break the web, treating careless talk as a form of wartime duty.
| Created / published | Boston : Walker Lith. & Pub. Co., [1918?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J75. 1918? |
| Subjects | William--II,--German Emperor,--1859-1941. World War, 1914-1918--Covert operations--German--United States. Spying--United States--1910-1920. Spiders--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,144 × 1,448 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216885 |
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