Accession No.: 07_01_000011

Title: Books are weapons in the war of ideas

Artist: Broder, Steven, artist

Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office

Agency: Office of War Information

Date: 1942

Period: World War II

Format: print (poster) : color

Description:
"1942--O--487131"
"O.W.I. no. 7"
Poster produced by the Office of War Information (OWI) for distribution to libraries and book stores. Poster showing Nazis burning books, with quotation by Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Books cannot be killed by fire ...."
The original is twenty inches by twenty-eight inches and is printed in black and red on white.

BPL Department: Print

Rights: Public Domain

Subject:
Book burning--Germany--1940-1950
Censorship--Germany--1940-1950
World War II--United States
War posters--United States--1940-1950
Political posters--United States--1940-1950