Home safety is front line defense Conserve - protect / Wagner. – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Home safety is front line defense Conserve - protect / Wagner.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Home safety is front line defense Conserve - protect / Wagner.
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Under the slogan "Home safety is front line defense," this silkscreen poster by John Wagner argues that the household was a battleground in its own right. Produced by the WPA War Services in New York City between about 1941 and 1943, it reflects a period when the federal Works Progress Administration's artists turned their skills to wartime messages. The poster's central idea was that preventing home accidents and fires would conserve labor, materials and attention for the war effort. Its pairing of "Conserve" and "protect" shows how such posters urged civilians to take part in the national defense without leaving home.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Poster design by John Wagner. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 266 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Civil defense--New York (State)--New York. Safety--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 819 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 909_Home_safety_is_front_li_1941 |
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