Neighborhood fingerprint station Fingerprints are your identification and protection – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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 vintage poster of Neighborhood fingerprint station Fingerprints are your identification and protection brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Neighborhood fingerprint station Fingerprints are your identification and protection
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A neighborhood fingerprint station, set up as a civil defense service, is the subject of this 1941 silkscreen poster, which presents fingerprinting as a practical step for residents. Its slogan, "Fingerprints are your identification and protection," reflects a wartime concern: if bombing or disaster left people unrecognizable, prints offered a reliable way to identify victims and reunite families. The poster was produced under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, and like many of its public-service posters, it uses bold flat color and simple shapes to reach ordinary Americans quickly.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 268 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Civil defense--United States. Fingerprints--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 987 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 595_Neighborhood_fingerprin_1941 |
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