Opens January 19, 2007

Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941-1945

The Lyman Museum, in cooperation with the Hawai`i Council for the Humanities, will host the local showing of Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941-1945, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition featuring posters circulated throughout the United States during World War II to promote patriotism and increase industrial output. The exhibition will be on view beginning January 19, 2007 and continuing through April 19, 2007 at the Lyman Museum on 276 Haili Street in downtown Hilo. The museum is open to the public Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Produce for Victory features 25 reproductions of WWII posters from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. These posters were displayed in American factories, shop windows, schools, and other public places during the war years, rallying the nation to take the steps necessary at home to support soldiers in the field.

Hawai`i home front history is highlighted through a companion exhibit, Hawai`i under Martial Law: 1941-1944, sponsored by the Hawai`i State Judiciary History Center and the Hawai`i Council for the Humanities, and by the loan of posters from the private collections of local businessmen Doug Beatty and LaMont Carroll.

Produce for Victory is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Hawai`i Council for the Humanities.