World War II Home Front Propaganda Poster Strong In The Strength of the Lord by David Stone Martin 1942

WWII Effort Poster

Broadside

Stone Martin, David. Strong In The Strength of the Lord We Who Fight In The People's Cause Will Never Stop Until That Cause Is Won, 1942, a U.S. government wartime poster that articulates the ideological pro-America push on the American home front during World War II. Produced in the first full year of U.S. involvement following Pearl Harbor, the poster advances a unified vision of civilian and military participation by aligning industrial labor, military service, and women’s wartime work within a single visual and rhetorical program. The quotation from Vice President Henry Wallace, a central political figure in wartime liberal internationalism and later the Progressive Party presidential candidate in 1948, situates the poster within federal efforts to frame the war as both a democratic and moral struggle requiring total societal commitment.

Strong In The Strength of the Lord We Who Fight In The People's Cause Will Never Stop Until That Cause Is Won. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Poster measuring approximately 40 x 28 inches. Designed by David Stone Martin, the composition presents three raised arms, one female and two male, each holding tools or instruments that signify industrial production and military participation. The visual program emphasizes coordinated effort across gender and occupational roles, reinforcing federal messaging that positioned women as essential industrial laborers while sustaining the symbolic presence of the soldier and the worker. Issued as part of a broader federal propaganda campaign, the poster would have circulated in workplaces, public buildings, and transportation hubs to reinforce wartime discipline, production quotas, and civic obligation.

The poster belongs to a larger body of U.S. Office of War Information and Government Printing Office materials that sought to define the “home front” as a site of organized labor, patriotic duty, and ideological unity. During 1942, federal agencies intensified messaging that encouraged participation through war bond purchases, factory labor, and adherence to rationing and production directives. Wallace’s language, invoking moral purpose and collective struggle, reflects the administration’s effort to frame the war in universalist and populist terms, linking domestic labor to global democratic outcomes. Minor bumping along the edges of the matting, otherwise very good condition.

Item #17322

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