Keep Us Flying poster

Title: Keep Us Flying poster
Description: Poster created by the U.S. Treasury Department during World War II to encourage war bond purchase.; The poster features a portrait by Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888-1964) of Major Robert W. Deiz (1919-2004), an African American Tuskegee Airman. Major Deiz gazes upward while wearing a flight jacket and gear in front of a blue sky background. Above him, blue, italicized letters read ‘Keep us flying!’. Below him white lettering on a dark blue background reads ‘BUY WAR BONDS’.

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Rights: This material is subject to copyright law and is made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. For access to the original or a high resolution reproduction, and for permission to publish, please contact Temple University Libraries, the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection (blockson@temple.edu; 215-204-6632).
Language: eng
Contributor: Temple University Libraries, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
Date Created: (n.d.)
Date: 1943-1944
transcription: Keep us flying!
BUY WAR BONDS
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943–O-560778
OFFICIAL U.S. TREASURY POSTER
WFD 874