I’m not really sure how to feel about this:

“What you’re making may save my daddy’s life.” It’s a propaganda poster put out in 1942 by the U.S. War Production Board. The creator is identified as Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

I can’t look at it for any length of time without wanting to cry, and this fact makes me feel very manipulated.

It’s part of a remarkable collection of U.S. World War II propaganda posters maintained online by Northwestern University. A link to the underlying image (which I cleaned up a bit for blogging purposes) can be found here. Ed at Gin and Tacos gets a hat-tip for an old post which brought my attention to the collection.