Homeland Security U.S.A. Safety Poster, Historic American Patriotism Symbols Public Domain Image: "If you tell where he's going, he may never get there." U.S. Government Office of War Information Caution Advisory Poster

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"If you tell where he's going, he may never get there." loose talk homeland security usa WWII patriotic poster published for the Office of War Information a copyright free image of photographic artwork by Victor Keppler printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office Washington D.C. Click for larger print file public domain image graphic art homeland security USA poster If you tell where he's going, he may never get there..

Brief Biography Photographer
Victor Keppler (1904-1987)

Photographer/designer of this poster was Victor Keppler who is best known for his commercial photography which won him numerous awards throughout his career. Keppler was a pioneer in the world of commercial advertising, and made a name for himself as one of the foremost artists in color advertising photography. Using the carbro color process, he mastered techniques drawn from the latest trends in other visual art mediums to make images that were fresh and modern. Commercial photographer Victor Keppler worked for numerous major advertisers Hallmark, Campbells, DuPont, Noxzema and Liberty Mutual, General Electric, and Corning Glass among them. He also had photographs and cover art published in the many large important magazines, the Saturday Evening Post (Keppler shot the first color cover in 1937), Ladies' Home Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, Cosmopolitan, and others. He founded the Famous Photographers School in Westport, CT, where he became the director and president until his retirement in 1972. Keppler's artistry was recognized in many awards: Harvard Award (1944), Photographers Hall of Fame Award (1970), and five Gold Medal Awards from the Art Directors Club. Keppler also authored four books, the two most well known being The Eighth Art: A Life of Color Photography (1938), and Victor Keppler: Man and Camera: A Photographic Autobiography (1970).

World War 2 Homeland Security USA Safety Patriotic Posters, a U.S. "Loose Talk" Type Poster:
"If you tell where he's going, he may never get there."

Espionage has been with us since early time but the immigrant/melting pot based nature of the United States and our relatively late involvement in World War 2 made 1940s America a lucrative environment for spies and potential saboteurs. Naturally the dangers and concerns of national security intensified when the United States entered the war and America's overseas military and homeland patriots urgently needed additional protection. The U.S. Government had a great need to alert its' military and private citizens to the presence of enemy spies and saboteurs lurking in American society. A major advertising blitz involving all media eventually produced thousands of remarkable "careless talk" type posters to warn people that small snippets of information regarding troop movements or other logistical details would be useful to the enemy and could easily compromise national security and U.S. military personnel' safety. These vintage 1940s public domain poster images like this one "If you tell where he's going, he may never get there." displayed on this page from the Safety and National Security World War 2 Gallery of this website allow you to own a copyright free piece of WWII history, a historic patriotic artwork poster.

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