The purple heart – Historic 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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Step back in time with The purple heart, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The purple heart
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A color offset poster from about 1944, printed by the Tooker Lithograph Company of New York, puts star Dana Andrews front and center for *The Purple Heart*. The 20th Century Fox war drama, directed by Lewis Milestone, follows American airmen captured by Japan after the April 1942 Doolittle raid on Tokyo and put on a show trial. The film's title refers to the decoration first created by George Washington in 1782 and revived by the Army in 1932 for wounded or meritorious soldiers. Its imagery reflects the wartime effort to rally public support for the fight in the Pacific.
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : offset, color ; 101.7 x 67.5 cm. |
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| Notes | N.Y. : Tooker Litho. Co., c1944. |
| Subjects | Andrews, Dana,--1909-1992--Performances. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners--American--Japan. Military decorations--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,942 × 6,129 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225508 |
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