United Nations Fight for Freedom : colored, white and Chinese Boy Scouts in front of Capitol, They help out by delivering poster to help the war effort (LOC)

Rous, John,, photographer.

 

United Nations Fight for Freedom : colored, white and Chinese Boy Scouts in front of Capitol, They help out by delivering poster to help the war effort

 

[1943]

 

1 transparency : color.

 

Notes:

Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.

Source for date: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and information from poster. The Declaration of United Nations document was signed on Jan. 1, 1942 by 26 Allied nations. By 1943 Brazil, Iraq, Iran, Bolivia and Columbia signed the statement. Of these, only Brazil's flag is on the poster, indicating that poster was published in 1943.

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

 

Subjects:

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

Boy Scouts of America

Posters

African Americans--Children

Chinese Americans--Children

Capitols

World War, 1939-1945

United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)

 

Format: Transparencies--Color

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-49 (DLC) 93845501

 

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35389

 

Call Number: LC-USW36-473

 

 

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