Design for victory
Subtitle: World War II posters on the American home front
By: William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein.
Contributors: Rubenstein, Harry R., 1951-
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Posters; Posters, American
Description: The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-107).