Careless Talk Brings Tragedy in Wartime

Place North & Central America: Canada
Accession Number ARTV02464
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 76 cm x 51 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset lithograph on paper
Maker Jameson, Lionel
Department of Public Information
Place made Canada
Date made 1940-1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Canadian Second World War poster advising about the importance of keeping secrets. The poster is created in the form of a comic strip, depicting a timeline between a soldier telling his sweetheart about a troop train, who told her father, who was then overheard by a spy, who sabotaged the train.

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