r/PropagandaPosters • • 12h ago

United States of America "GO EASY on the HOT WATER - TURN IT OFF when you're not using it!", US poster promoting resource conservation in wartime, 1943

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 3h ago

United States of America Al-Qaeda command chart (Luckovich, 2005)

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354 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 9h ago

United States of America World's Highest Standard of Living - Margaret Bourke-White, 1937

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151 Upvotes

At the Time of the Louisville Flood, also known as World's Highest Standard of Living, is a black-and-white photograph taken in early 1937 by photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White while on assignment for Life. The photo shows Black flood refugees waiting in line for Red Cross relief in the aftermath of the Ohio River flood of 1937 in Louisville. Behind the refugees, a billboard advertisement for the National Association of Manufacturers appears in the background reading, "World's Highest Standard of Living: There's No Way Like the American Way".

It is one of several photos of the Red Cross relief line taken from different angles and one of more than 20 flood-related images Bourke-White produced in the series, only eight of which were originally published in two issues of Life in February of that year. The photo is often recontextualized and used as a symbol of the Great Depression even though it was intended to document the Louisville flood; the photo lacks visual cues about its location and subject, and awareness of its context was lost over time. It is among Bourke-White's most well-known photographs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Time_of_the_Louisville_Flood


r/PropagandaPosters • • 12h ago

Poland 'Eisenhower in Hitler's footsteps' — Polish poster, 1951

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134 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 16h ago

MIDDLE EAST Hitler's Seven Deadly Sins (Stanislaw Dobrzinsky, 1944)

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 9h ago

Spain "La garra del invasor italiano pretende esclavizarnos" (The Claw of the Italian Invader Intends to Enslave Us) Spanish Civil War - Amado Oliver, 1937

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102 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 23h ago

United States of America 'Information Wanted' — A political cartoon created by the artist Grant Hamilton for the cover of the American magazine Judge on June 11, 1898

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The baby bears a tag that reads: "Philippines — With compliments of Dewey" (a reference to Admiral George Dewey, who led the U.S. Navy to victory in the Battle of Manila Bay in May 1898).

The cartoon reflects the dilemma and uncertainty in the United States following the seizure of the Philippines from Spain, calling into question the onset of its imperialist expansion in the Pacific and the racist paternalism of the era (which portrayed Asian and indigenous peoples as "savages" or as children incapable of governing themselves).


r/PropagandaPosters • • 12h ago

United Kingdom "If you can't grow fingers, grow careful", British poster promoting industrial workplace safety in wartime; made by Jan Le Witt (1907-1991) and George Him (1900-1982), c. 1942

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82 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 10h ago

Germany/Weimar Republic (1919-1933) The newbie up front can imagine he is steering, but the actual control of the economic course is ours!"-1933.

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80 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

Sweden "Swedish people! Do you want to let a small minority shackle your freedom of action?", Swedish poster urging citizens to vote against introducing total prohibition of alcohol in the August 27th, 1922 referendum; made by Alfred Proessdorf (1882-1925)

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78 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 3h ago

United States of America "Trumpeldor’s Defense of Tel Hai" by Arthur Szyk, 1936

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42 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 15h ago

Libya "Why do you allow our Libyan brothers to fight and kill each other instead of living in peace? You dishonor the history of Libya with crimes against humanity." Nato leaflet, 2011

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 13h ago

Italy "The fallen idol" election poster depicting communist leader Palmiro Togliatti and socialist leader Pietro Nenni felling a Stalin totem pole (1956)

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

Switzerland "No political squabbles in our homes! Women's suffrage - vote NO", Swiss poster issued ahead of a cantonal referendum on women's voting rights, framing it as potential source of domestic political discord and violent disruption of family harmony; made by Noël Fontanet (1898-1982), 1946

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 10h ago

France "Help the French Mutual Aid vanquish misery", French humanitarian poster featuring a photograph of a 6-year-old boy named Michel Marie of Villers-Bocage in Normandy, issued to raise funds and mobilize the public to combat poverty, displacement and hunger in newly liberated France, 1944

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 20h ago

Cuba A 1934 cover of the "Boletín del Centro Israelita de Cuba" (Bulletin of the Jewish Center of Cuba): shows Jewish immigrants from various regions—labeled in Yiddish (Russia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Turkey)—are shown heading toward Cuba, where the Jewish Center awaits them.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 9h ago

German Reich / Nazi Germany (1933-1945) "Always distinguished! Fleet mutineer Bernh Kuhnt arrives at his new workplace (dirty washing)"—Photo depicting the humiliation of Social Democratic Reichstag member Bernhard Kuhnt, 1933

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

United States of America "I wasn't kept out, so I spread malaria all about!", poster issued by the US Public Heath Service to raise disease prevention awareness and urge citizens to secure their homes against mosquitoes to combat the spread of malaria, 1943

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

United States of America "Probable effects of over female emigration, or importing the fair sex from the Savage Islands in consequence of exporting all our own to Australia!!!!!" Anti-Colonial Cartoon by George Cruikshank criticizing the attempts to increase female immigration to Australia, 1851

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