We’ve got a special delivery this #TelegramTuesday! This ca. 1946 poster was created to encourage World War II servicemen stationed in occupied Japan to send telegrams, radiograms, and to make telephone calls for American holidays.
The poster shows a hand holding a blank telegram over a background of a map of the world. The additional text on bottom half of poster is in Japanese and urges use of Receiver to Pay (R.T.P.) messages from Japan to conserve Japan's foreign exchange.
This poster is part of the Hagley Library’s collection of Charles B. Jennings photographs, scrapbook boards, and other materials (Accession 2464.21), and is hosted online in the library’s David Sarnoff Library digital collection, which includes a selection of materials from the David Sarnoff Library including photographs, RCA Annual Reports, Broadcast News, and technical journals and newsletters produced by RCA. Click here to visit this site in our Digital Archive!