The Department of Commerce's National Inventors Council sought to encourage wartime innovation with this 1942 poster. Not all posters spurred individuals to enlist. Published around 1942 ...

advertisements and government information posters, published during World War Two, offer a fascinating insight into social attitudes of the time - as well as the impact of wartime austerity.

One of many posters produced by the Canadian Wartime Information Board designed to promote wartime production, recruitment and fundraising during the Second World War. (National Archives of Canada ...