1942 · Blue-and-white photolithographic poster
This man is your friend: Chinese: he fights for freedom
United States Office of Facts and Figures, Graphics Division
Why it matters
The poster reduces the alliance to a direct lesson in recognition. A nationality label classifies the soldier, while his smile and the repeated words “friend” and “freedom” temporarily turn racial difference from a reason for exclusion into evidence of common purpose.
- Publication
- United States Government Printing Office
- Holding institution
- UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
- Shelfmark
- ARK metadc233; GPO Jacket no. 455918
United States Office of Facts and Figures. This Man Is Your Friend: Chinese: He Fights for Freedom. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1942. UNT Digital Library, ark:/67531/metadc233.
