No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binocular – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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 No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binocular in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binocular
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Few wartime posters name specific optical brands, but this one lists Zeiss alongside the American maker Bausch & Lomb and asks households to lend their binoculars to the war effort. Printed in 1941, before the United States entered the war, it reflects the anxiety over German U-boats in the Atlantic and the need for civilian binoculars to help spot them from shore and sea. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, produced it as a silkscreen, a method that gave poster artists bold flat color at low cost. The poster's blunt, direct message is typical of the period's home-front appeals.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Submarines--1940-1950. World War 1939-1945--Equipment & supplies. World War 1939-1945--Naval operations. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 982 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 914_No_enemy_sub_will_dare_1941 |
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