Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Poster |
Caption |
Boy Scouts of America-Norman Rockwell |
Scope & Content |
1971 Boy Scouts of America poster "America's Manpower Begins With Boypower" by Norman Rockwell Illustration for 1971 Boy Scout Calendar. ©Brown & Bigelow. Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and leaders are pictured with flags and emblem. Metal top edge. In 1924, Rockwell began painting what would become a half-century of calendar images for the Boys Scouts of America. Each of these featured a scouting-themed painting using models from his successive home towns of New Rochelle, New York, Arlington, Vermont, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The yearly calendar was published by Brown & Bigelow, one of the nation's largest calendar publishers, today the Boys Scouts of America own a sizable portion of the fifty-two calendar scenes which Rockwell painted. |
Catalog Number |
2015-0132-168 |
Search Terms |
Posters Boy Scouts of America "America's Manpower Begins With Boypower" (Poster) |
Subjects |
Posters Boy Scouts |