Poster: 'To Protect Our Way of Living'
Image ID: 2605
Collection: Roland Marchand
Topic(s): War Posters, W.W.II, Propaganda
Region(s): United States
CA Standard(s): 11.7 - America's participation in World War II
National Standard(s): The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Card Text: Poster, "To Protect Our Way of Living." A blond couple walk hand in hand on top of a hill, with planes overhead and factories pumping out white smoke behind them. World War II.
Citation: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. Quantity Postcards, 1441 Grant Ave., San Francisco, CA.
Poster: 'YOU buy a LIBERTY BOND…LEST I PERISH'
Image ID: 3716
Collection: Roland Marchand
Topic(s): Symbols, Statue of Liberty, Propaganda
Region(s): United States
CA Standard(s): 11.4 - The rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century
National Standard(s): The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Card Text: "YOU buy a LIBERTY BOND…LEST I PERISH." Poster. The Statue of Liberty points a finger in James Montgomery Flagg style. Not until the outbreak of World War I did the Statue of Liberty become a national and international symbol of freedom and peace.
Citation: The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024. In James B. Bell and Richard Abrams, "In Search of Liberty," 1984, p. 61.
Poster: 'Destroy This Mad Brute' 1917
Image ID: 2652
Collection: Roland Marchand
Topic(s): War Posters, W.W.I, Propaganda
Region(s): United States
CA Standard(s): 11.4 - The rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century
National Standard(s): The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Card Text: Poster, "Destroy This Mad Brute...ENLIST if you want to fight for your country...If this war is not fought to a finish in Europe, it will be on the soil of the United States," 1917. Ad, U.S. Army, World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II has been turned into a huge, black, insane ape wearing a German spiked helmet labeled "Militarism," abducting a terrified Columbia for rape, bringing down a bloodied club labelled "KULTUR" on "AMERICA," and threatening the next victim, the viewer. Blood drenches his hands and wrists. This slobbering beast personifies several other stereotypes, racial ones included. H.R. Hopps poster.
Citation: Army Recruiting Station, Boston, MA. Hoover Institution Archives, Poster Collection, US 2003A, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010.
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Poster: 'Good Bye, Dad. I'm Off to Fight for Old Glory' 1918
Image ID: 2664
Collection: Roland Marchand
Topic(s): War Posters, W.W.I, Propaganda
Region(s): United States
CA Standard(s): 11.4 - The rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century
National Standard(s): The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Card Text: Poster, "Good Bye, Dad. I'm Off to Fight for Old Glory, You Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds...Third Liberty Loan," 1918. A young soldier shakes hands with his white-haired, white-bearded father; in the background are a few houses in rolling countryside. Rural imagery. Laurence S. Harris.
Citation: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-42152.
West Africans Examine British Armed Forces Ad, World War II
Image ID: 13469
Collection: Cynthia Brantley
Topic(s): W.W.II, Imperialism, Propaganda, War Posters
Region(s): Africa, Europe
CA Standard(s): 10.4 - Global change in the era of New Imperialism in Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines, 10.8 - The causes and consequences of World War II
National Standard(s): A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945
Card Text: "Together." Young West Africans looking at a World War II advertisement for the armed forces of the British Commonwealth, c. 1940. One man points at the African member of the "team." British war propaganda tried to convey an image of unity among the colonies that was not so apparent in real life. "For King and country. As happened throughout the Empire during the Second World War, men of military age were called up for service in their countries' armed forces. Recruiting propaganda stressed the unity of the British Commonwealth of Nations, a point being reinforced to these young men who are about to join the Royal West African Frontier Force." The RWAFF served as a cadre for the formation of two West African divisions, which fought in Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia (Ethiopia), and Burma. One of several ads produced with similar graphics and the same message.
Citation: Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ UNITED KINGDOM. Online at www.iwm.org.uk. In Trevor Royle, "Winds of Change: The End of Empire in Africa," (John Murray Ltd, 50 Albemarle St, London W1X 4BD UNITED KINGDOM, 1997) Fig. 1, opp. p. 116.
Poster: 'Longing won't get him back sooner... GET A WAR JOB!' 1944
Image ID: 2589
Collection: Roland Marchand
Topic(s): War Posters, W.W.II, World War II, Propaganda, Women in war
Region(s): United States
CA Standard(s): 11.7 - America's participation in World War II
National Standard(s): The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Card Text: Poster, "Longing won't get him back sooner... GET A WAR JOB! See Your U.S. Employment Service," 1944. World War II. Lawrence Wilbur.
Citation: War Manpower Commission. US National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001.
Proslavery propaganda, 1852
Image ID: 8894
Collection: Karen Halttunen
Topic(s): Nineteenth Century, Nineteenth Century Slavery, Slavery and Abolition, Propaganda
Region(s): United States
CA Standard(s): 8.7 - The divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s
National Standard(s): Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) , Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Card Text: Proslavery propaganda: "The Negro In His Own Country" vs. "The Negro In America," from "Bible Defence of Slavery," 1852
Citation: Josiah Priest, "Bible Defence of Slavery," W. S. Brown: Glasgow, KY 1852. Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Poster: 'Someone Talked!' 1943
Image ID: 2645
Collection: Roland Marchand
Topic(s): War Posters, W.W.II, Propaganda
Region(s): United States
CA Standard(s): 11.7 - America's participation in World War II
National Standard(s): The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Card Text: Poster, "Someone Talked!" 1943. Office of War Information. Henry Koerner.
Citation: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZC4-1858.
Broadside for Boycott of Merchant who Continued to Stock English Goods, Boston, 1770
Image ID: 7820
Collection: Karen Halttunen
Topic(s): Eighteenth Century, Revolution, American Revolution, British Empire, Business, Civil Rights, Class Structure, Colonial America, Decolonization, Domesticity, Early Ads, Imperialism, Individualism, Technology, Institutions and social disorder, Invention, Labor Organizations and Leaders, Luxury, Middle-Class Culture, National Events, Nativism, Politics & Government, Pre-Industrial Work - Misc., Propaganda, Stores, Strikes and Violence, Symbols, Taxes, Trade, Women in the Revolution, Women's image, Women's organizations, Work and Workers
Region(s): United States, North America
CA Standard(s): 8.1 - Major events preceding the founding of the nation and the development of American constitutional democracy, 5.4 - Political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era. , 5.5 - The causes of the American Revolution, 5.6 - The course and consequences of the American Revolution, 5.7 - People and events associated with the development of the U.S. Constitution and it's significance as the foundation of the American republic
National Standard(s): Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
Card Text: Broadside urging the boycott of merchant William Jackson, who continued to stock English goods at his business on Corn-Hill, Boston, MA, 1770. "It is desired that the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, would not buy any one thing of him, for in so doing they will bring disgrace upon themselves, and their Posterity, for ever and ever, AMEN." Like the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767 produced controversy and protest in the American colonies. For a second time, many colonists resented what they perceived as an effort to tax them without representation and thus to deprive them of their liberty. The fact that the revenue raised by the Townshend Acts would pay royal governors only made the situation worse, because it took away control from colonial legislatures that otherwise had the power to set and withhold a royal governor’s salary. The Restraining Act, intended to isolate New York without angering the other colonies, had the opposite effect, showing the rest of the colonies how far beyond the British Constitution some members of Parliament were willing to go.
The Townshend Acts generated a number of protest writings, including “Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer” by John Dickinson. In this influential pamphlet, which circulated widely in the colonies, Dickinson conceded that the Empire could regulate trade but argued that Parliament could not impose either internal taxes, like stamps, on goods or external taxes, like customs duties, on imports.
Women were encouraged to take political action by boycotting British goods, especially tea and linen, and to manufacture their own homespun cloth. Building on the protest of the 1765 Stamp Act by the Daughters of Liberty, the non-importation movement of 1767–68 mobilized women as political actors.
In Massachusetts in 1768, Samuel Adams wrote "The Massachusetts Circular" to the other colonial legislatures. It laid out the unconstitutionality of taxation without representation and encouraged the other colonies to protest the taxes by boycotting British goods. Even in this letter of protest, the humble and submissive tone shows the Massachusetts Assembly’s continued deference to parliamentary authority. Even in that hotbed of political protest, it is a clear expression of allegiance and the hope for a restoration of “natural and constitutional rights.”
Britain’s response to this threat of disobedience served only to unite the colonies further. Lord Hillsborough demanded that the Massachusetts colony retract the letter, and warned that any colonial assemblies that endorsed it would be dissolved. This ultimatum pushed the other colonies to Massachusetts’s side. Even the city of Philadelphia, which had originally opposed the Circular, came around.
The Daughters of Liberty once again supported and promoted the boycott of British goods. Women resumed spinning bees and again found substitutes for British tea and other goods. Many colonial merchants signed non-importation agreements, and the Daughters of Liberty urged colonial women to shop only with those merchants. The Sons of Liberty used newspapers and circulars to call out by name those merchants who refused to sign such agreements; sometimes they were threatened with violence. The boycott in 1768–69 turned the purchase of consumer goods into a political gesture. It Consumption was political; the very clothes you wore indicated whether you were a defender of liberty in homespun or a protector of parliamentary rights in superfine British attire.
Citation: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-43568. Text: "The Townshend Acts," OpenStax. https://open stax.org/books/us-history/pages/5-3-the-townshend-acts-and-colonial-protest. © 1999-2019, Rice University, 6100 Main St, MS-375, Houston, TX 77005. All rights reserved. May 17, 2020.
