Their real pin-up girl / Hungerford. – Vintage 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: Their real pin-up girl / Hungerford., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Their real pin-up girl / Hungerford.
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Their real pin-up girl" turns the wartime pin-up convention toward the factory, suggesting that the woman doing war work deserved the admiration usually given to glamour illustrations. This color halftone poster, dated around 1944 and copyrighted by Cyrus C. Hungerford of Pittsburgh, belongs to a large body of home-front posters urging American women to take jobs in defense plants and shipyards. By then millions had entered the workforce, many for the first time, as men left for military service. The title borrows from pin-up culture, showing how advertisers drew on popular entertainment to make industrial labor appealing.
| Created / published | c1944. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | War posters 1940-1950.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | K55823 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Cyrus C. Hungerford, Pittsburgh, Pa. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1944. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States. Women--Employment--United States--1940-1950. War work--United States--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,160 × 1,459 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219241 |
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