Stop and get your free fag bag Careless matches aid the Axis. – Vintage Poster
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Stop and get your free fag bag Careless matches aid the Axis.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A small pouch for cigarette ends, offered free, is the hook of this silkscreen from the Pennsylvania WPA War Services Project, which dates it to between 1941 and 1943. The poster ties a careless match to the Axis war effort, a link that made sense when wartime demand for timber and wood products made forest fires a national concern. Its direct, everyday appeal to smokers and its bold color reflect the wartime campaigns that the Work Projects Administration's poster program produced for public spaces.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 273 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Japanese. Forest fires--1940-1950. Conservation of natural resources--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,166 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 447_Stop_and_get_your_free_1941 |
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