File name: 07_01_000011
Title: Books are weapons in the war of ideas
Creator/Contributor: Broder, S. (artist); United States. Office of War Information
(sponsor)
Created/Published: U.S. Government Printing Office
Date issued: 1942
Physical description: 1 print (poster) : color
Summary: Poster of Nazis burning books, with quotation by Franklin D. Roosevelt on a large book in the background: "Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons." Poster produced by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) for distribution to libraries and book stores.
Genre: War posters
Subjects: Books; Propaganda; Book burning
Notes: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1942--O-487131; OWI poster no. 7;
For additional copies write Division of Public Inquiry, Office of War
Information, Washington, D. C. Specify O.W.I. No. 7
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated
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