| This is one of the many "propaganda" posters produced for the Wartime Information Board from 1942 to 1945. Designed primarily to promote recruitment, wartime production and fund-raising, these posters also encouraged public participation in the war effort on the home front. Although the term propaganda often has a negative connotation, sincere efforts to build morale and bring confidence to a society during periods of hardship have been used since the times of Aristotle in ancient Greece. Many significant Canadian artists produced designs for the Board, including A.J. Casson, Laurence Hyde, A.Y. Jackson, Harry Mayerovitch, Marion Scott, and Hubert Rogers (1898-1982), the creator of this example. The National Archives has over 3,500 First and Second World War posters in its documentary art collection. Offset lithograph C-103527 |