He's watching you. This poster, designed by Glen Grobe, well-known artist of Westport, Connecticut, is being distributed by the Division of Information, OEM (Office of Emergency Management). The poster is distributed in two sizes, 40 X 28 and 14 X 10. The original is printed in three colors: black, yellow and blue. – Antique Poster Print
(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 historic photograph of He's watching you. This poster, designed by Glen Grobe, well-known artist of Westport, Connecticut, is being distributed by the Division of Information, OEM (Office of Emergency Management). The poster is distributed in two sizes, 40 X 28 and 14 X 10. The original is printed in three colors: black, yellow and blue.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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He's watching you. This poster, designed by Glen Grobe, well-known artist of Westport, Connecticut, is being distributed by the Division of Information, OEM (Office of Emergency Management). The poster is distributed in two sizes, 40 X 28 and 14 X 10. The original is printed in three colors: black, yellow and blue.
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The title, "He's Watching You," is a blunt wartime warning, and this record is a film negative of the poster, which Glen Grobe, an artist from Westport, Connecticut, designed. Issued in June 1942, months after the United States entered the Second World War, it was distributed by the Division of Information of the Office of Emergency Management in two sizes and printed in black, yellow and blue. Posters like this one aimed to make civilians aware that enemy agents might be listening, so careless talk about troop movements or war work could cost lives. The negative was later transferred to the Office of War Information's overseas picture division, which helps explain its survival in this form.
| Created / published | 1942 June. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative ; 5 x 7 inches or smaller. |
| Genre | Film negatives. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 29. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,225 × 3,000 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114459 |
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