War Poster Archive

5 curated works in this category.

A dark 1940s-style shrimp-folk civil defense poster showing a helmeted warden shielding a lantern above a blackout reef city crossed by searchlights.

Blackout over the Home Reef

Reef War II civil defense poster archive · Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion

A shielded lantern turns civil-defense blackout into an image of public vigilance.

A vintage shrimp-folk recruitment poster with the readable words I WANT YOU above a stern admiral pointing a claw toward the viewer, with a bottom reef-defense slogan panel.

I Want You for the Reef

James Montgomery Flagg and recruitment poster traditions · Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion

The pointing claw, elder admiral face, coral medallion, and blunt headline turn reef defense into a personal summons.

A 1940s-style shrimp-folk war bonds poster showing a civilian family and civic treasurer gathered around a glowing pearl beneath patrol craft and protective netting.

Pearl Bonds for the Home Reef

Reef War II home-front poster archive · Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion

The glowing pearl becomes a civic promise held between family, treasury, convoy, and reef.

A 1940s-style shrimp-folk naval recruitment poster with a uniformed signal officer raising a claw above submarines, reef boats, searchlights, and coral fortifications.

Stand Watch for the Reef

Reef War II recruitment poster archive · Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion

Raised claw, signal flags, submarines, and coral rampart organize reef defense into a public call.

A Rosie the Riveter-like shrimp-folk labor poster with the readable words WE CAN DO IT! above a determined worker flexing a clawed arm.

We Can Do It, Reef Worker

J. Howard Miller and home-front labor posters · Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion

Scarf, sleeve, shell, and flexed claw convert wartime industry into home-front resolve.