La Visión Eterna, 1492...1942
A painted Columbus stands at a ship's rail looking toward a luminous, crowned female figure with a torch and book above a distant shore, with rough sailors in the foreground; the title reads 'La Visión Eterna, 1492 * * * 1942'. The tell is the transfer of the Columbus voyage's prestige onto the year 1942 through the torch-bearing figure, with 'eternal vision' left as a virtue phrase and no stated claim or request.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Artist Howard Chandler Christy (signed and dated 1942); no issuing body or printer is shown on the poster
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (artist signed 1942)
Howard Chandler Christy, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-1.
Text on the object
LA VISIÓN ETERNA 1492 * * * 1942 [signature:] Howard Chandler Christy 1942 [Translation: The Eternal Vision, 1492 * * * 1942]
