American Legion Posters Go Green

I was reading through boingboing.net as I often do, and saw a link to the American Legion's online collection of World War II posters. They've got really large scans of dozens, maybe hundreds, of these classics.


This was a time when the best minds in American advertising turned their skills toward winning the war in every way possible.


Their goal: to enlist the unenlisted in the war effort through gas conservation, victory gardens, and scrap drives.


Come to think of it, the messages on these posters have a lot of resonance right now as well...if you think of global warming as the enemy.