This WWII-era home-front poster, titled 'Jap Trap,' urged American civilians to conserve materials and scrap resources for the war effort. Like much wartime propaganda art of the period, it employs a racially charged caricature of the era's enemy, reflecting the prejudiced visual rhetoric commonly used in American media during World War II. Such artifacts are preserved today as historical evidence of home-front messaging and the attitudes of the period. Project: 218644