File:Alaska Death Trap.jpg
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Original file (1,120 × 1,448 pixels, file size: 1.48 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
| Description | Alaska - death-trap for the Jap / Grigware. Propaganda Poster for Thirteenth Naval District, United States Navy, showing a rat wearing a rising sun fez, representing Japan, approaching a mousetrap labeled "Army / Civilian / Navy", on a background map of the then-Alaska Territory. The poster's graphics and its caption reading "Death-Trap For The Jap" are aimed at Japan's then-occupation of Alaskan islands in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. |
| Date | between 1941 and 1943 |
| Source | Library of Congress REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-985 (color film copy slide) |
| Author | WPA Art Project (U.S. government) |
| Other versions |
Edited version of  with artifact adjusted, cropping, and mild sharpening. |
Licensing
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This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 17:15, 25 January 2010 |  | 1,120 × 1,448 (1.48 MB) | wikimediacommons>Ras67 | Losslessly cropped with Jpegcrop |
