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World War II Ads

Title: World War II Ads
Abstract: Research project undertaken by Jerry Shea.
Has Version: Link to exhibit

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Air Transport Association advertisement; "The Caissons Go Flying Along."
10" x 14"; black and white drawing
Alcoa Aluminum Corporation advertisement; "That's us you're giving the flag, mister."
10" x 14", Color drawing
American Gas Association advertisement; "Ladies, here's how you can help cook a tank!..."
10" x 14"
American Locomotive advertisement; "Ever face a firing squad?"
10" x 14" color drawing
American Locomotive advertisement; "Here are you!"
10" x 14"; Color drawing
American Locomotive Company advertisement; "A high honor for your daughter"
10" x 14". Color drawing
American Locomotive Company advertisement; "It's dinnertime in America"
American Locomotive Company advertisement; "Try This for Size."
10" x 14", Color drawing
American Meat Institute advertisement; "Meat Ashore!"
10" x 14"
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company advertisement; "With Flying Colors!"
10" x 14"
Beautyrest Matress advertisement; "The gentle art of relaxing in wartime"
10" x 14"
Bell Telephone System advertisement; "Please Mr. and Mrs. Public"
10" x 14"; Black and white cartoon drawing
Belmont Radio advertisement; "Marked for Destruction"
10" x 14"
Belmont Radio advertisement; "Thank God For Americans With Fighting Blood"
10" x 14"
Bendix Aviation Corporation (Bendix Products Division) advertisement; "The Invisible Crew of our Bullet Belching Monsters."
10" x 14"
Bendix Aviation Corporation advertisement; "Products of 35,000 Bendix craftsmen safeguard America by land, sea air!"
10" x 14"; 3-color separation
Bendix Corporation advertisement; "Doing the Wash in the Enemy's Water"
5" x 14"
Borden Company advertisement; " "I feel like the mother of the regiment.", giggled Elsie."
10" x 14" Color drawing
Brewing Industry Foundation advertisement; "Morale is a lot of little things."
10" x 14" black and white drawing
Cannon Towels advertisement; "Army day - crocodiles keep out!"
10" x 14"
Castle Films advertisement - "Japs Bomb USA!"
5" x 14"; 2-color separation
Chesterfield Cigarettes advertisement; "All Clear. That's the smoker's signal for a mild, cool cigarette."
10" x 14"
Chevrolet advertisement; "Three awards to three plants in one day"
10" x 14"; three color separation
Chris-Craft Corporation advertisement; "Buy U. S. War Bonds Today - Tomorrow command your own Chris-Craft."
10" x 14",
Chris-Craft Corporation advertisement; "Three Navy "E's" for Excellence in Production
10" x 14" color drawing and text
Chrysler Corporation advertisement; "It wasn't just dark...it was black as Tojo's heart!"
10" x 14"
Cup and Container Institute advertisement; "There is no dishwasher in a Bomber's crew."
10" x 14"
Curtiss Candy Company advertisement; "...and make it snappy!"
10" x 14" color drawing
Dr. Pepper advertisement; "Not January 1, but December 7, America's New Date for Resolutions"
10" x 14"
DuPont advertisement; "Container Industry finds way to save War materials"
10" x 14"; Color
Electric Boat Company advertisement; "Up from the sea in subs"
10" x 14"
Electric Companies under American Business Management advertisement (94 companies sponsored advertisement); "It's all yours - and no Jap or Nazi has anything like it!"
10" x 14"
Elgin Watch Company advertisement; "Hour By Hour She Stands Guard Above The Connecticut Coast."
10" x 14" and photograph
Ethyl Corporation advertisement; "Tokio Papers Please Copy"
10" x 14"; Color
Farnsworth Television & Radio Corporation advertisement; "Victory"
10" x 14" Color painting interpreting Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5"
Fisher (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Straight steer by Fisher"
10" x 14"
Fisher (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Finish Fight by Fisher"
10" x 14"
Fisher (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Hands Across The Sky"
10" x 14"
Florida Citrus Commission advertisement; " Because bomber crews must have "Victory Vitamin C", maybe your canned Florida Grapefruit Juice ... is over Nazi rooftops tonight!"
pg. 52
General Electric advertisement; "The girl who shattered the dream of Corporal Clark."
10" x 14"
General Electric Company advertisements; "Wartime Lighting Suggestions"
10" x 14"; Black and white photograph
General Electric Corporation advertisement; "She Knows what Freedom really means."
10" x 14"; Black & White Drawing
General Electric Corporation advertisement; "Why can't we wash dishes by pushing a button?"
10" x 14"
General Motors advertisement; "New Life for Old Cars"
10" x 14"; Black and White
General Motors advertisement; "Outposts In The War Against Waste"
10" x 14"
General Motors, Pontiac Division advertisement; "Our 56-pound problem child has lost a lot of weight."
10" x 14"
Goodyear Rubber Company advertisement; "Lightning War, U. S. Style - Leaps Rivers on Rubber Bridges."
10" x 14"
Greyhound advertisement; "More than ever, "It's this amazing America!""
10" x 14" Color drawing
Greyhound advertisement; "Serve See America Now! - so you can see America later."
10" x 14"
Greyhound Bus Company advertisement; "I drove a Greyhound...I'll drive one again!"
Pg. 88
Gruen Watch Company advertisement; "Tell Steve you cashed your war bond."
10" x 14"
Gruen Watch Company advertisement; "The life saver that was waiting in Honolulu, December 7, 1941."
10" x 14" Color drawing
Gruen Watch Company advertisement; "Tonight I leaned across 10,000 miles and kissed you!"
10" x 14"
Heinz Soups advertisement; "Soups Streamlined for Victory!"
10" x 14"; Black and white photographs
Hoover Corporation advertisement; "A quiet street , but a fighting street"
10" x 14"; watercolor drawing
Hoover Vacuum Cleaner advertisement; "The V-Home...Is your home one?"
10" x 14"s
Hoover Vacuum Company advertisement; "Can you find the 9 "War-Shorteners" in this picture?"
10" x 14"
Industry advertisement by the Council on Candy of the National Confectioners' Association; "The only thing that most soldiers and I have against candy is that we don't get enough of it."
10" x 14"
Ingersoll Watches (Waterbury Clock Company) advertisement; "Only two minutes to buy the best gift of all"
10" x 14"
International Harvester advertisement; "Invasion"
10" x 14"
International Sterling Company advertisement; "The wedding veil I'll never get to wear."
10" x 14" black and white photograph
Interwoven Socks advertisement; "Time for some good Socks"
10" x 14" and photograph
Kelvinator advertisement; "And we'll live happily ever after..."
10" x 14"
LIFE Magazine Cover
10" x 14" Black & white photograph
Life Savers Candy advertisement;
10" x 14"
Life Savers Candy advertisement; It's no sale, lady!"
10" x 14"
Lifesaver Candy advertisement; "Dear Mom..."
10" x 14"
Listerine Antiseptic advertisement (Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.); "Do your best...and be at your best."
10" x 14"; Black and white drawing
Lockheed Aircraft advertisement; "End of Rehearsal"
10" x 14"; Color
Lockheed Aircraft advertisement. "Lightning Strikes."
10" x 14"
Lockheed Corporation advertisement; "...dish it out!'
10" x 14" Color drawing
Magazine Publishers of America public service advertisement; "By His Deeds...Measure Yours"
10" x 14"
Martin Aircraft advertisement; "They're Making Scrap...Are You Collecting It?"
10" x 14", Color drawing
Martin Aircraft advertisement; "Tomorrow the world is yours!"
Minnesota Valley Canning Company (Green Giant) advertisement; "How to Eat Like a Patriot."
10" x 14"
Minnesota Valley Canning Company (Green Giant) advertisement; "How to Grow Your Own Peas"
8" x 11" color drawing and text
Nash Kelvinator advertisement ; "I can see the hills of home"
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "When you come back to me..."
Pg. 39
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "A Refrigerator and an Automobile Go to War!"
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "A wing, and a gun, and an engine by Nash!"
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "I looked into my brother's face."
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "I saw a miracle..."
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "Mom..."
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator Corporation advertisement; "Ice Cubes For Japan."
10" x 14"
Nash Motors advertisement; "My tomorrow..."
10" x 14"
Nash-Kelvinator advertisement; "For Joe and Pete and Jack and Harry..."
10" x 14"
Nash-Kelvinator advertisement; "I will come home again..."
10" x 14"
Nash-Kelvinator advertisement; "Reading between the lines of your blessed letter..."
10" x 14", Color drawing
National Carbon Co. (EverReady batteries) advertisement; "WHEN and HOW to Use Your Flashlight in a Blackout."
10" x 14"; Four color separation drawing
Nestlé's advertisement; "Chocolate is a fighting food."
10" x 14"
Norge Appliances advertisement; "Night Watch"
10" x 14" Color drawing
Norge Household Appliances advertisement; "Keep your War Bonds in this Free Budget Portfolio."
10" x 14".
North American Aviation advertisement; "Mustangs raise Hell in Heavens"
10" x 14"
North American Aviation advertisement; "North American sets the pace!"
10" x 14"; black and white photograph and drawing
North American Aviation Company advertisement; "15-gun salute from American flyers"
10" x 14"
North American Aviation, Inc. advertisement; "What! An artist's model building a bomber?"
10" x 14", Black and white photographs
Oldsmobile (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Tank-Eating Tiger!"
10" x 14"
Oldsmobile-Division of General Motors advertisement; "Keep 'Em Firing"
10" x 14"; Black & White drawing
Oldsmobile, Division of General Motors advertisement; "Fighting...Every Working Minute!"
10" x 14"; Black & white drawing
Oneida Limited advertisement; "These are the things we are fighting for, that our children may look to the skies in joy and confidence...and not in fear."
10" x 14"; Color drawing
Oneida Ltd. Silverware advertisement; "These are the things we are fighting for...the right to teach the truth...not propaganda."
10" x 14"
Oneida, Ltd. advertisement; "Back Home For Keeps"
Oneida, Ltd. advertisement; "These are the things we are fighting for. The right of a woman to marry for love and not at the State's command."
10" x 14"
Pacific Mill advertisement; "Speaking of postwar plans..."
10" x 14"
Pacific Sheets advertisement; "Please, God .. bring him back to me safely...."
10" x 14", two color drawing
Parker Pen Company advertisement; "Rationed in production to meet the needs of war"
10" x 14"
Parker Pen Company advertisement; "the Soldier whose letter Never Comes"
10:x 14" Black & white drawing and text
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement; "Molly Pitcher, 1944"
10" x 14"
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement; "On their way"
10" x 14"
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement. "Helping the Navy Launch Victory!"
10" x 14" Color drawing
Pepperell Manufacturing Company advertisement; "Mud to You...Luxury to Them."
10" x 14"; Black & White drawing
Philco Corporation advertisement; "You said it, Uncle!"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Axis Nightmare!"
10" x 14" Black & white cartoon and text
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows."
10" x 14"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Dig 'Em Out!"
10" x 14"; Black & White Drawing
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw!"
10" x 14"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "He is our boy!"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "One way to handle vandals!"
10" x 14"; Black & white drawing
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Tanks, Guns, Men."
10" x 14"
Philco Corporation advertisement. "Don't look now, boys, but..."
10" x 14" Black & white drawing
Plymouth Motors (Chrysler Corporation) advertisement; "The mightiest weapon of war"
10" x 14"
Polk Miller Products Corp (veterinary medicine producer) advertisement; "I can wait."
10" x 14" color drawing
Pontiac Motor Division (General Motors) advertisement; "He's the United Sates Army..."
10" x 14"
Pullman Company advertisement; "Dear Bill - The Navy doesn't cry."
10" x 14"
Pullman Rail Co. advertisement; "After you...Soldier!"
10" x 14"; Black & White
Quaker State Motor Oil advertisement; "Here's one great advantage the Axis can't match..."
10" x 14"; color drawing
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) advertisement; "Your war bonds will buy the secret weapons we need to lick the enemy; Your savings will buy the greatest radios and phonographs in RCA's history."
10" x 14"
Safe-T-Cones (ice cream cones) advertisement; "Attention! All you men in Uniform: Here's the best to the best."
10" x 14"; Color.
Scotch-Tape (Division of 3M Products) advertisement; "If war gas falls from the sky...he'll be ready!"
10" x 14"; Two-color drawing
Shell Oil Company advertisement; "Damn the Torpedoes! - we'll grow our own palm trees."
10" x 14"
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc. (Mobilgas); "Yes, your job is waiting for you, soldier!"
10" x 14"
Stromberg-Carlson advertisement; "His pal, the Tank Driver, was dead...!"
10" x 14"
Studebaker advertisement; "Studebaker craftsmen again give "more than they promise".
10" x 14"
Studebaker advertisement; "Tens of thousands of big Studebaker Trucks move the men and supplies of war."
10" x 14"; color drawing
Texaco advertisement; "Heil..."
10" x 14"
Texaco Company advertisement; "Just eleven hours on earth...with Hitler!"
10" x 14"
Texaco Company advertisement; "Report to the Emperor"
10" x 14"; color drawing
Texaco Company advertisement; "Your battles, too!"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "Fighting for the right to boo the Dodgers"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "Smoke means trouble. Do your gas coupons go up in smoke?"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "This might have been a scalpel!"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "When?"
10" x 14"; Color drawing
The Texaco Company advertisement; "...wonder what a "goose-stepper" thinks about?"
10" x 14".
Tubize Chatillon Corporation advertisement; "Will it take a bomb to break up the afternoon bridge game?"
10" x 14"
U.S. Electric Companies advertisement; "Uncle Sam has far more POWER for War production, than all these three together!"
10" x 14"; Black and White
United Airlines advertisement. "Cargoliner In the Age Of Flight"
10" x 14"
United States Army Recruiting and Induction Service advertisement; "One for All and All for One."
10" x 14" Black and white drawing
Unites States Steel advertisement; "The gun that sprang from nowhere"
10" x 14"
USO (United Service Organizations) advertisement; "Casualty - 1,000 miles from the enemy"
10" x 14"; Black and White
War Production Board advertisement; "Quiz on Junk"
10" x 14", Black & white text and drawing
Weco Products Company advertisement; "Guard your health for the job ahead!"
10" x 14", Color drawing and black and white photograph
Western Cartridge Company advertisement; "Now...he shoots for freedom"
10" x 14"
Western Electric advertisement; "Field Headquarters"
10" x 14"
Western Electric advertisement; "Fighting Words - From Our Fighting Men
10" x 14" Black and white photographs
Whitman's Chocolates advertisement; "A woman never forgets the man who remembers."
10" x 14"
Willys Motor Cars advertisement; "ZAMECHATELNO!" (Russian for " terrific")
10" x 14"
Wilson Sporting Goods advertisement; "No nation can be successful in war while its functions are frustrated by a people not physically fit to man capably all arms of the service...at home and on the fighting fronts." Pg. 112
5" x 14"; two color separation text
Winchester Guns advertisement; "Here's where my Hunting Pays Off."
10" x 14"