Monday, 24 September 2012

We Can Do It


this is an american propaganda poster designed by J. Howard Miller in 1943. He was hired by Westinghouse electric's internal commitee, through an agency to create a series of posters to inspire their workers to work harder. In total 43 posters where designed and where displayed amongst the factory walls in pittsburg, pennslyvania and the midwest. 1,800 copies where printed on this poster. the first showing was on february 15th 1943 and was on the factory walls for only 2 weeks. 

image found on google images http://theaverageconsumer.com/2012/09/labor-day/
this image is relating to the workers that were already working in the factories at the time because they were only shown in the factory walls. its aiming to inspire the workers to work harder.  

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