Photograph caption dated January 7, 1942 reads, "Continuing their all-out campaign to discourage careless talk about shipping and military operations in the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor area, Naval authorities today began distributing thousands of posters driving home the vital message, 'Serve with Silence.' At the Terminal Island yard of the California Shipbuilding Company, Miss Jane Russell, motion picture actress, tacked up the first poster. The posters are brightly colored, with illustrations volunteered by Warner Brothers Art Department. By authority of Captain Richard B. Coffmann, USN, Commandant of the Naval Operating Base, similar posters will be displayed throughout the area adjoining the Defensive Sea Area proclaimed by President Roosevelt at the local port. Through San Pedro, Wilmington and Long Beach, buses, street cars, business offices, union halls, docks and warehouses, lodges, cafe´s bowling and billiard halls, ballrooms shipyards, factories, all the places where people work or play, will be asked to cooperate by prominently displaying the posters."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Russell, Jane,--1921-2011 United States.--Navy World War, 1939-1945--War work Shipyards--California--Los Angeles Harbors--California--Los Angeles War posters, American Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) Terminal Island (Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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