This is what we're working for!

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Artist/Maker	US Navy (issued by)
Place of origin	Washington (made)

'This is what we're working for!', US World War II poster. The slogan, printed in a style mimicking handwriting, in black ink, 'This is what / we're working for!', is printed below a black-and-white photographic image of emotional mother greeting her sailor son who's returned home from the war.

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Categories	Prints Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	This is what we're working for! (generic title)
Materials and techniques	photolithograph Paper Ink Photo Lithography
Brief description	"This is what we're working for!" World War II poster, issued by the Industrial Incentive Division of the Navy Department, Washington DC, about 1943
Physical description	'This is what we're working for!', US World War II poster. The slogan, printed in a style mimicking handwriting, in black ink, 'This is what / we're working for!', is printed below a black-and-white photographic image of emotional mother greeting her sailor son who's returned home from the war.
Dimensions	Height: 43.3cm Width: 28cm
Marks and inscriptions	'This is what / we're working for' (Below the image, printed in black in in a style that mimics hand-writing.) 'Additional copies can be obtained from Industrial Incentive Division, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.' (Small black typeface, running along the lower right edge of the poster)
Credit line	Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Subjects depicted	Propaganda War Home Woman Man Mother Sons Sailors Uniforms World War II
Other number	LS.2320 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1608-2004

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Record created	March 22, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122267/this-is-what-were-working-poster-us-navy/

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