Title: | For your guidance |
Description: | Image of poster with oversized fingerprint; lettering above fingerprint reads, "NEIGHBORHOOD FINGERPRINT STATION"; lettering below fingerprint reads, "FINGERPRINTS ARE YOUR IDENTIFICATION AND PROTECTION DURING WARTIME HAVE THE ENTIRE FAMILY TAKE THEIRS NOW! WAR IDENTIFICATION BUREAU-COVD." Caption on verso: "FOR YOUR GUIDANCE: This poster, issued by the Brooklyn Civilian Defense Volunteer Office, will be placed outside places in Brooklyn where you may register your fingerprints." |
Date: | 1942 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 7, 1942. Retouched. |
Collection: | Government [3]
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Subject: |
Fingerprints [4] World War, 1939-1945 [5] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Posters. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
ID: | GOVT 0001 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/bfec478157f2873d0dcd04caff3d8a01&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Government
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fingerprints
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/w/World War, 1939-1945