Ohio ~ Belmont by e r j k . a m e r j k a
Via Flickr:
Belmont, Belmont County, Ohio. The Belmont Market House is one of several gems I found in this small rural village. The tin facade and the ghost it hides are a fun find.
The inference is that the submarine is an enemy submarine which sank the liner, acting on information received through indiscrete conversation.
This may be a New Zealand-produced poster, but we don’t know the artist who designed it; in any case copies were displayed widely throughout New Zealand from 3 November 1941 as part of a “Don’t Talk” campaign. (See a photograph of such a poster hanging on an office wall). Advertisements with the same wording were published in periodicals such as the NZ Mirror, and NZ Listener in November and December 1941.
Artist unknown :Lest we regret … don’t talk. [1941].
Vintage travel poster for the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, circa 1947. The Canadian travel poster reads: “The vacation-land that has everything! British Columbia. Ask your travel bureau or the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, Department of Trade and Industry, Victoria, B.C., Canada.”
Not shown: pissed-off moose.
Minneapolis Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey throwing out the first pitch for the Minneapolis Millers at Nicollet Park on April 27, 1948 via MNHS
