War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes. One of each of these stamps is reproduced separately below the picture of the book. Important note: Actual dimensions of the point ration stamps are 78 inch x 1 inch, while the unit stamps are 716 inch x 1 inch. The U.S. Secret Service requests that ration stamps not be reproduced in actual size, but less than 34 or over 1 12 times. Also, stamps should not be reproduced in color. This photograph, if reproduced, same size, meets these requirements
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1722.
Tags
Date
01/01/1940
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain