Government approved ideas were included in films, radio and advertising. Anything that negatively impacted the war effort or damaged morale was removed from public consumption. Photographers were sent across the country to document Americans doing patriotic work.
Propaganda posters were everywhere. They encouraged Americans to join up, plant a Victory Garden, stay quiet, work in factories and on farms, watch out for the enemy everywhere and, most of all, support the war effort.
Radio programs, newsreels and films were an essential part of this propaganda machine. This war of information was not limited to US shores; enemy troops in Europe and the Pacific were also targeted. Leaflets, newspapers in foreign languages and magazines were used to demoralize enemy soldiers and encourage them to surrender.
While politically progressive bureaucrats initially molded the OWI's graphic agenda, research reveals how politicians suppressed graphics that displayed the war's violence, racial integration, and progressive gender roles in favor of images resembling commercial advertisements. To articulate the manner in which issues of American self-representation evolved during the war, this study examines the graphic work of artists and designers such as Charles Alston, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Coiner, Ben Shahn, and Norman Rockwell.
The investigation unfolds across four chapters. The first chapter examines the institutional origins of American World War II propaganda by exploring the shifting content of New Deal promotional efforts during the s and early s. This analysis is critical, as government agencies used propaganda not only to support economic recovery during the Great Depression, but also to prepare Americans for war before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
The second chapter analyzes the ways OWI increasingly suppressed depictions of violence as the war progressed. While the agency distributed traumatic images of Axis hostility early in the war, such work was later deemed "too aggressive" by former advertising executives turned federal bureaucrats who preferred more friendly, appealing graphics.
Consolidated administrative services for OWI branches. Textual Records: General records of the Procedures Division, Subject file of the regional executive officer San Francisco , Correspondence with outposts and administrative officers, Textual Records: Correspondence of the director, Correspondence, directives, reports, and other records of the Speech Clearance Unit, Records of the Bureau of Campaigns, Records of the Office of Program Coordination, Issuances, guides, and pamphlets, Information campaign materials, Photostats of advertisements, Newspaper and magazine clippings, Drawings, Paintings, and Mockups images : For posters publicizing war production and conservation, ca.
Textual Records: Correspondence and other records, Records relating to war bond drives, ; the fuel conservation program, ; the V-Mail program, ; the economic stabilization campaign, ; the security of war information program, ; domestic campaigns for food production, gasoline allocation, and rationing, ; home front campaigns such as forest fire prevention, industrial safety, and juvenile delinquency, ; and information campaigns on manpower, salvage, recruitment of women, and discharged veterans, D-Day press releases, Textual Records: Correspondence, reports, radio scripts, and other records of the chief and deputy chief, Reports on relief and rehabilitation of liberated areas of Europe, Correspondence, reports, radio scripts, and other records of the Allocation Division, ; the Editorial and Production Division, ; the Script Clearance Division, ; the Special Assignment Division, ; and the Station Relations Division, Records of the Hollywood Office, Sound Recordings items : Recordings of the President, Vice President, and other government and foreign officials, Textual Records: Administrative records, Records of the bureau chief, Correspondence of the chief of the Casualty Section, ; the chief of the Negro Press Section, ; and the chief of the Photography Division, Sound Recordings items : Foreign language news and propaganda recordings, n.
Cartoons and Drawings 1, images : Original drawings and mockups for cartoons, and original drawings of famous black Americans by Charles Alston, n. Textual Records: Correspondence of the bureau chief, Records of the Art Section New York , Photographic Prints images : Poster proof book, PM. Posters images : Posters, streamers, stickers, handbills, and placards, PMP.
Textual Records: Records of the headquarters staff, Records of the Canadian Section, Textual Records: Records of the Office of the Chief, Records relating to government film coordination, ; film stock allocation, ; newsreels, ; subjects for films, ; research for government films, ; film distribution, ; and government educational films, Correspondence, scripts, and other records of the Production Division, Correspondence with commercial and noncommercial film producers, Motion Pictures 78 reels : Nontheatrical films on war subjects, Reports, publications, and maps of the Research Section, Textual Records: Records of the bureau chief, Records of the News Operations Division,
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