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Wed, Sep 9, 2026 09:00AM EDT
Lot 155

[WORLD WAR II, PROPAGANDA] 1942 "Strong in the Strength of the Lord..." OWI Poster

Estimate: $250 - $500

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David Stone Martin (1913-1992), designer

Strong in the strength of the Lord...

OWI Poster No. 8

[Washington, D.C.]

Government Printing Office; U.S. Office of War Information

1942

Mounted to 30 1/16 x 42 1/8 in. 

 

David Stone Miller was the art director for the United States Office of War Information, which sought to create a unified ideology to mobilize home-front support for the war. The poster here shows a soldier grasping their rifle flanked by the hands of two workers hoisting wrenches with the legend: "Strong in the strength of the Lord we who fight in the people's cause will never stop until that cause is won." 

 

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[World War II, WWII,  FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Allied, Axis, George S. Patton, Air Force] [Propaganda, Posters]

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