I Need Your Skill in a War Job
1943
Designer
James Montgomery Flagg
Publisher
Office of War Information
Printer
U.S. Government Printing Office Washington D.C
DIMENSIONS
40 x 28 1/2 in. (101.6 x 72.4 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.830
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Homefront, Labor, Political, Uncle Sam, War, Work Incentive, WWII
In this World War II poster, the federal Office of War Information repurposed James Montgomery Flagg’s iconic image of Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer in his World War I recruitment poster I Want You for U.S. Army; here, Uncle Sam is recruiting labor for war-related industries. The U.S. Employment Service, based on a previous organization, had been formally established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933 to coordinate employment placement and services.
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