Crush axl! Produce more for victory! / G. Laivson. – Historic 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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Crush axl! Produce more for victory! / G. Laivson.
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Here Adolf Hitler is caricatured as a figure being crushed under the weight of production, a visual argument that American factory output would defeat the Axis. The poster was made around 1942 by G. Laivson for General Motors Corporation, and it reflects the wartime push to convert civilian manufacturing into arms and war materiel. Uncle Sam, the national personification of the United States, appears alongside the swastika in a bold color design typical of the home-front posters of the early 1940s. Its exhortation to "produce more for victory" speaks to the industrial mobilization that followed the country's entry into World War II.
| Created / published | c1942. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Caricatures American 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J49.J71 1942. Copyright by Poster Machines Corporation. Poster for General Motors Corporation. |
| Subjects | Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Swastikas--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,150 × 1,724 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215807 |
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