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Defense Passive [French civil defense posters, 1939]: Avez-vous mesure le peril arien? Sur Paris"" – Vintage Poster

Defense Passive [French civil defense posters, 1939]: Avez-vous mesure le peril arien? Sur Paris"", [1939] — vintage poster
Defense Passive [French civil defense posters, 1939]: Avez-vous mesure le peril arien? Sur Paris"", [1939]. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 Defense Passive [French civil defense posters, 1939]: Avez-vous mesure le peril arien? Sur Paris"" in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Defense Passive [French civil defense posters, 1939]: Avez-vous mesure le peril arien? Sur Paris""

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Its headline question, asking whether you have measured the aerial peril over Paris, sets this color lithograph apart from other civil defense posters of the period. It dates to 1939, when France was preparing its civilians for air attack in the months before and just after war broke out in September. Governments across Europe were urging residents to learn shelter procedures, observe blackout rules, and keep gas masks at hand, lessons drawn from bombing in Spain and China. Posters like this one carried that message onto city streets, where the threat from the sky felt most immediate.

Created / published[1939]
Medium1 poster, col.
SubjectsColor lithograph poster. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WWII--Aviation; WWII--France; Civil Defense; France--Hist.--1939; Posters; Bombing, Aerial. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 565.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,130 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142117

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