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World War II Posters
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World War II Posters
Description
Posters used to promote the war effort among Americans on the home front. Bangor Public Library acquired its collection of war posters through the efforts of L. Felix Ranlett, a World War I veteran and librarian from 1937 to 1962. These posters were digitized through a collaboration with Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine with the support of Eugene and Barbara Daigle.
Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons. Franklin D. Roosevelt
All over the country Americans still in school are making posters that tell how they feel about the war, and how they want others to feel. In a way, they all feel alike--as the posters show. They all want their country to win quickly and triumphantly. All the poster-makers urge us to save, to conserve, to work with whatever talents we have at the wartime jobs that come to hand--as they themselves are doing through their art. Some of these student poster-makers say these things differently because they see America and the war with a special vision. The three posters on this page were made by boys who see America as the home their people have had always. They share it with us now and they see the war as their fight to be fought with their ancient courage and cunning, but by modern methods. The larger poster, by Ben Quintana, is especially interesting because it shows what Indian children actually must do to help. It describes better than words what it is like to ride for miles over the bright, bare cactus-studded land and buy War Stamps at a desert post office. Ben Quintana (Ha-a-Tee), and Eva Mirabal (Eah-Ha-Wa) who painted the smoke-signal poster, and Charles Presbetonequa who painted the "Tomahawk" poster are all students at the United States Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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