Grind These Heels in Our Wheels
Artist
Designer Unknown
Datec. 1943
MediumSilkscreen
Dimensions36 x 23 1/2 in. (91.4 x 59.7 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.251
DescriptionThis poster was issued by the Office of War Information (OWI), set up by the U.S. government in 1942 to shape and communicate its various wartime propaganda objectives. It was produced by the Work Projects Administration (WPA), an agency established in 1935 as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal program to employ millions of Americans in public works projects, from building infrastructure to painting murals in federal spaces. This poster, showing the leaders of the Axis powers—Hideki Tojo of Japan, Adolf Hitler of Germany, and Benito Mussolini of Italy, hats flying off and with expressions of terror on their faces as they are about to be crushed under the heel of Uncle Sam and ground in the turning wheels of a huge American contraption, was intended to boost the morale of factory workers producing war materials.On View
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