You help build the B-29 – Historic 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of You help build the B-29. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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You help build the B-29
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This 1945 Army poster names a specific aircraft, the B-29, and speaks directly to the viewer as a builder of it. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a very large long-range bomber that entered combat over Japan in 1944 and carried much of the air campaign against the Japanese home islands. Posters like this one were part of the wartime effort to connect ordinary factory and home-front work to the fighting overseas. Its title, which puts the reader inside the production effort, is worth noticing as a reflection of how the government tried to make war industry feel personal.
| Created / published | U.S. Army, 1945 (U.S. Government Printing Office) |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Prints American Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Promotional goal:U.S.J71.B74 1945. U.S. Army official poster". I.S.D. no. 231." |
| Subjects | Bombers--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--American. |
| 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-215815 |
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