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Careless conversation caution advisory patriotic poster from 1942 World War II; "Loose talk can cause this" large text over a gloomy ominous image by Adolph Treidler of German Nazi Concentration Guard watching over a captured American G.I. barbed wire; 50.5 cm x 35.5 cm lithograph produced 1942 in the United States of America by the British and American Ambulance Corps Incorporated; Click for larger print file public domain image graphic art homeland security USA careless conversation advisory poster "Loose Talk Can Cause This" by Adolph Treidler.
Famous Artist Poster Painter
Adolph Treidler (1886 - 1981)
The creator of this gloomy second world war loose talk caution advisory poster was prolific American artist/magazine illustrator painter and poster designer Adolph Treidler who was born in Westcliff, Colorado, studied at the California School of Design in San Francisco and with Robert Henri in New York. He first illustrated for McClure's magazine in 1908, then made pictures or cover designs for Harper's, Century, Scribner's, Collier's The Saturday Evening Post, Woman's Home Companion and ads for many national notable advertisers. Adolph Treidler was a long time artist for the Pierce-Arrow motor car company and produced many beautiful travel poster for the Bermuda Board of Trade but posters were artist/painter Adolph Treidler's particular forte and he created approximately 20 dynamic posters for the U.S. Government across both World Wars.
World War 2 Homeland Security USA Safety Patriotic Posters, a U.S. "Loose Talk" Type Poster: "Loose Talk Can Cause This"
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. The greatest percentage of these posters by far were published by the Office of War Information and lithographs printed by the U.S. Printing Office in Washington D.C. but many were made by private industry too and the poster on this page was paid for and produced by the British and American Ambulance Corps.; small text on the bottom margin reads: Distributed in the interest of national defense and as a means of obtaining funds for ambulances wherever needed. British and American Ambulance Corps 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Lithographed in U.S.A.. These vintage 1940s public domain poster images like this one "Loose Talk Can Cause This" 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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