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.
