It's Great to be Helping Uncle Sam
Artist
Ralph Moses
Datec. 1940
Dimensions12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.6118
DescriptionIn this National Safety Council (NSC) poster, Uncle Sam is not deployed to recruit new soldiers, as he had been in James Montgomery Flagg's famous World War I poster in which he pointed at the viewer and proclaimed (ungrammatically): "I Want You for U.S. Army." His job here is to assert the importance of workplace safety. This is a relaxed-looking Uncle Sam in the guise of a friendly factory foreman, with rolled-up shirtsleeves and a vest decorated with the stars of the American flag, apparently reassuring a new munitions worker. Ralph Moses designed numerous posters for the NSC, both before and during World War II.On View
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