1942 Loews 'Remember Pearl Harbor' Pictorial Map of the Pacific Ocean

This is a c. 1942 Loew's 'Remember Pearl Harbor' pictorial map of the Pacific Theater of World War II (1939 - 1945). The map was composed to inspire both patriotic outrage and fear that the 'American way of life' was under threat - and thus to encourage the purchase of 'War Bonds'.

A Closer Look

Pictorial vignettes throughout North America, the Pacific Ocean, and China, include tanks, howitzers, and a rank of soldiers firing rifles. An advertisement in the United States declares 'Buy War Bonds. Remember Pearl Harbor. Help Set the Rising Sun.' American flags mark bases in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor, Midway, Wake, Guam, and Manila. The included Burma Road reinforces the American commitment to supplying China. A large portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt occupies the lower right, along with smaller portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The text of the Pledge of Allegiance and the Bill of Rights are incorporated. Inset maps of Guam, Wake, Midway, Honolulu and Pearl Harbors, and Samoa are included in the lower left. The whole is surrounded by a portraits of every American president up to that time along with a reproduction of each president's signature.

Publication History and Census

This map was created and published by Loew's c. 1942. The 'Loew's' in question is not to be confused with the modern American conglomerate of the same name. The producer of this map was a chain of 'cut rate' drug stores in Texas operating in the 1930s and 1940s. This is the only known surviving example.