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I want you F.D.R.--Stay and finish the job! / James Montgomery Flagg. – Antique Wall Art

I want you F.D.R.--Stay and finish the job! / James Montgomery Flagg., [ca. 1944] — vintage poster
I want you F.D.R.--Stay and finish the job! / James Montgomery Flagg., [ca. 1944]. Vintage poster from the Presidents 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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This rare vintage poster captures I want you F.D.R.--Stay and finish the job! / James Montgomery Flagg. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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I want you F.D.R.--Stay and finish the job! / James Montgomery Flagg.

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Here, Uncle Sam, the figure James Montgomery Flagg made famous in his 1917 World War I recruiting poster, points a finger at the viewer and asks for Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection under the line "Stay and finish the job!" The poster dates to 1944, when Roosevelt sought an unprecedented fourth term against Republican Thomas E. Dewey, and the wartime slogan argues against changing leaders while the fighting continued. Flagg reused his earlier design so viewers would recognize the appeal to duty at once. The poster's display in Berlin in 2007, in an exhibition on art and propaganda, reflects how durable its imagery has remained.

Created / published[ca. 1944]
Medium1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 60 x 47 cm.
GenrePolitical posters American 1940-1950.Chromolithographs Color 1940-1950.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. H3. 1944. Exhibited: Art and Propaganda, Deutsches Historiches Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2007.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1940-1950. Presidential elections--1940-1950. Presidential terms of office--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,792 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220171

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