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Record information – Brief 1Canada. Wartime Information Board (WIB) [graphic material] National Film Board of Canada
Hierarchical level:AccessionDate:[ca. 1940-1945].Reference:RG19, R200, 1983-030 PICLocal class no.:A161 to A175, A216 to A217, A278, B013, B026, WMB RM 0254Type of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:20380Link to this record
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Record information – Details Accession includes:1096 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s)Date(s):[ca. 1940-1945].Place:Ottawa :Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedPublisher:Wartime Information Board,Extent:ca. 3444 prints offset lithographsLanguage of material:EnglishProvenance:Finding aid:Graphic (art): (Paper) descriptions item-level poster filesAdditional information:General note:Posters produced by the Wartime Information Board on a variety of subjects, including recruitment, propaganda, Victory Loans, production, etc. Included are poster campaigns on behalf of the War Finance Committee, National Defence, and other government departments. The Director of Public Information also transferred copies of British and other Allied posters with the WIB material. There is no detailed descriptive list of this accession, although titles have been listed wherever possible. Among the artists employed by the NFB in producing posters were Harry Mayerovitch, Hubert Rogers, Laurence Hyde, Marion Scott, Charles Fainmel, Alexander Young Jackson, and A.J. Casson, among others.
This collection has been assigned an arbitrary restrospective accession number of 1983-30. The Wartime Information Board did assign specific numbers to each poster series, which usually appears as WIB-1, WIB-2, etc. However, the collection is not organized to any extent.
An effort has been made to indicate when most of the posters were transferred by listing the entries from the Division of Prints and Drawings Memoranda Book from 1927-1945. This is unfortunately very incomplete.
The posters in this collection were probably received from a large number of sources, but the majority were produced by the Wartime Information Board under the auspices of John Grierson. These posters were produced under the supervision of Albert Cloutier, John Grierson, and Harry Mayerovitch.Citation/reference note:Stacey, 100 Years of the Poster in Canada (Toronto: Methuen, 1979), Bibliographic citation: Young, Making the Truth Graphic... The Wartime Information Board (PhD. Thesis, UBC, 1978)Language note:Language of accompanying material: english / french.Associated material note:The related government files may be found in RG 36, Series 31, Wartime Information Board (WIB).Source:GovernmentRelated control no.:00001
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1975-381 NPC
1983-030
1983-030 X PIC
1983-030 PIC
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R1196-15-9-E
R1196-15-9-F
R1196-990-4-E
R200-110-5-E
R200-110-5-F
RG19-E-5-m
RG53Former archival reference no.:Other accession no.:1983-030 PIC -
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