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U.S. Government Printing Office Our Good Earth... Keep It Ours

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09654.05 Author/Creator: U.S. Government Printing Office Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Poster Date: 1942 Pagination: 1 poster ; 55.9 x 35.5 cm.

One poster entitled, "Our Good Earth... Keep It Ours," printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office, dated 1942. Poster features a farmer in his field with two children. The farmer is gripping three stalks of wheat and looking off into the distance. The identifying numbers at the bottom of the poster are WSS-509 and O-470156. The artist who painted the image for the poster is John Steuart Curry.

Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
War Bonds
Children and Family
Farm Work
Propaganda
World War II
World War II

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