Digital Collection
1969.151.032

Poster

Road to Tokyo

Advertisement poster from Caterpillar Tractor Company with the message, "Caterpillar Machines are leaving daily for urgent front-line duties because You - Micromatic Hone Corporation and other suppliers like you are getting to us essential materials that help us to meet Uncle Sam's production quotas." The poster features a drawing entitled, "Road to Tokyo," which shows a military access road that is being cut through a snow-covered pine forest. Caterpillar bulldozers are working to clear and grade the roadway. The artist's name, "Charles Zurn[?]," is shown in the lower right corner of the drawing. Inset text in the upper right corner of the drawing discusses the durability of Caterpillar equipment made by "Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Illinois."

Date
c.1943
Collection
Extent of Description
13" x 18.5"
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