Button Your Lip! Loose Talk Can Cost Lives

  • Share this
  • Printer-friendly version
  • Send to friend
 
Button Your Lip! Loose Talk Can Cost Lives
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE
  • Title :     Button Your Lip! Loose Talk Can Cost Lives
  • Artist:     Otto Soglow Designer British and American Ambulance Corps, Inc. Publisher
  • Accession:     1993.1.65
  • Country:     United States New York New York
  • Date:     1942
  • Dimensions:     Inches 20 14, Centimeters 50.8 35.6
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     Propaganda , War/Military , Caricature and Cartoons , Loose Lips , World War II 1940-1945
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of The Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
  • URL:     1993.1.65.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper lithograph promoting the need for concealment of war related information; depicts a black and white cartoon figure in military dress with three buttons across his mouth; set against red background with inscriptions contained within yellow borders located at top and bottom.