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'Tokio Kid' WWII War Production Propaganda Poster — Tool Waste/Scrap Conservation Campaign

'Tokio Kid' WWII War Production Propaganda Poster — Tool Waste/Scrap Conservation Campaign

A 'Tokio Kid' war production poster, part of a WWII home-front campaign created by illustrator Jack Campbell for aircraft manufacturers to discourage tool waste and encourage material conservation. The poster employs a racially caricatured depiction of a Japanese figure, a common and now widely criticized propaganda device of the period, to shame workers over broken tools and wasted scrap metal. Project: 218644