Disaster Broadcast receivers can help the enemy sink you (S) Dont use them! / ETG. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Disaster Broadcast receivers can help the enemy sink you (S) Dont use them! / ETG., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Disaster Broadcast receivers can help the enemy sink you (S) Dont use them! / ETG.
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Printed in silkscreen in 1941, this poster carries the blunt warning "Don't use them!" against radio receivers, tying everyday listening to the danger that enemy navies could exploit electronic signals to find and sink ships. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, produced it while the United States was still at peace, months before the attack on Pearl Harbor drew the country into the war. Its subject line names both Japanese and German naval operations, reflecting how much Allied shipping worried officials on both coasts. The poster shows how wartime security campaigns reached ordinary households through public art.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). No. 16. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Naval operations--Japanese. World War 1939-1945--Naval operations--German. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,832 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 903_Disaster_Broadcast_rece_1941 |
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