Back to the future, in posters.
Some of them read today's world so well it's creepy, frankly. Although the rationing ones are a hoot. Pity you couldn't sell rationing today; it was an easy way to get people to feel they were doing something. Sacrificing for the cause, as it were.
And there's the whole Civilian Defense concept that will no doubt need to start bubbling to the surface sometime soon; we seem to already have the Civil Air Patrol going, sort of. Wonder how they'll get all of that working?
On the other hand, some of them are decidedly not appropriate for the day. For example, at the time, the ones discouraging travel would not be viewed in a good light, although it really does seem sensible, doesn't it? You don't need to travel, then don't. Unfortunately, since WWII, we've built up this whole domestic tourism and travel industry, and it kind of goes CLUNK! when people stay home. "Don't Travel -- unless your trip helps win the war" has somehow become "Travel! Your trip will help the economy and that will help win the war!" Which is freakin' weird, really.
Any road, it's an interesting collection.
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12/19/2001: vive la france
12/19/2001: princess, redux
12/19/2001: yemen and rumsfeld
12/18/2001: you're NOT in the army now
12/18/2001: interesting donation
12/18/2001: shame on winn dixie, indeed
12/18/2001: saudi princess
12/17/2001: new resolve
12/17/2001: a victim of the attack ... yeah, right
12/17/2001: polluters ho!