Alaska Death Trap
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
- 1941–1943
- Photographer / author
- WPA Art Project (U.S. government)
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 1,120 × 1,448 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US WPA; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Alaska Death Trap" (1941–1943). WPA Art Project (U.S. government). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska_Death_Trap.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 164703.
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