Loose talk can cost lives! Keep it under your stetson / Glenn Grohe. – Vintage Print
![Loose talk can cost lives! Keep it under your stetson / Glenn Grohe., [between 1941 and 1945] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/407a3e22272b-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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This rare vintage poster captures Loose talk can cost lives! Keep it under your stetson / Glenn Grohe. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Loose talk can cost lives! Keep it under your stetson / Glenn Grohe.
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Keep it under your stetson" turns the familiar saying "keep it under your hat," a call to keep a secret, into a nod to the broad-brimmed Western hat many American men wore. Glenn Grohe made the poster during the years of U.S. involvement in World War II, when the government urged civilians to guard information about troop and ship movements. Its subject tags point to naval warfare, reflecting the worry that idle remarks in bars, on trains, or at work could reach enemy agents. Loose-talk campaigns like this one were a common wartime tool, aimed at ordinary citizens as much as at service members.
| Created / published | [between 1941 and 1945] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J75. 194- |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Communications--United States. Naval warfare--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,187 × 1,494 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218188 |
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