Help RCA, help USA : you and I : beat the promise.

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In the foreground are two clasped hands, one representing Uncle Sam with a blue and gold-starred jacket sleeve; in the background is a factory with smokestacks. A U.S. flag stripe design connects the two images.

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1 poster : col. ; 56 x 46 cm.

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RCA Manufacturing Company, inc. 1942.

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This poster is part of the collection entitled: World War Poster Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Government Documents Department to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 742 times, with 6 in the last month. More information about this poster can be viewed below.

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  • Main Title: Help RCA, help USA : you and I : beat the promise.
  • Series Title: Beat the promise
  • Alternate Title: You and I, beat the promise
  • Alternate Title: Help R.C.A., help U.S.A., you and I, beat the promise
  • Series Title: American War Posters

Description

In the foreground are two clasped hands, one representing Uncle Sam with a blue and gold-starred jacket sleeve; in the background is a factory with smokestacks. A U.S. flag stripe design connects the two images.

Physical Description

1 poster : col. ; 56 x 46 cm.

Notes

Attributed to RCA in 1942 in "Design for Victory" (New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1998), p. 60. According to this source, as well as "Posters Used by American Industries as War Production Incentives" (Boston, Mass. : S.D. Warren Co., 1942), and the Smithsonian Institution (http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/victory4.htm), "Beat the promise" was the slogan of RCA's production incentive program.

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  • Accession or Local Control No: Database No. 798
  • Accession or Local Control No: Historical Collection Accession No. 2233
  • Call Number: Posters WW2 RCA 5
  • UNT Catalog No.: b2963105 | View in Discover
  • OCLC: 64685829
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc151

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World War Poster Collection

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World War Two Collection

These materials focus on World War II and the immediate postwar period of the late 1940s. In addition to materials created during the time period, materials may include modern studies and commemorative works about the era.

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  • 1942

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  • June 13, 2006, 1:49 p.m.

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  • June 18, 2020, 4:34 p.m.

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RCA Manufacturing Company, inc. Help RCA, help USA : you and I : beat the promise., poster, 1942; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc151/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

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