Propaganda Collection (page 15)

British recruitment poster, WW1
A British recruitment poster during the First World War. A mother tells her son to Go! Its your duty lad. Join today. Date: 1914-1918

D Annunzios propaganda drop over Vienna, WW1
Aerial view of the centre of Vienna, Austria, with thousands of propaganda leaflets dropped by the Italian poet and nationalist Gabriele d Annunzio from his Ansaldo SVA biplane

German poster giving air raid instructions, WW1
A German poster giving air raid instructions, warning of danger from enemy aircraft, and telling vehicles not to stop in this location. Date: 1914-1918

Cavalry Charge - World War One
A propaganda patriotic postcard from World War One, showing a cavalry charge. " Theirs not ro reason why" For King and Country! Date: circa 1910s

Ten per cent more poster, 1948
Large poster with a personal message from Prime Minister Clement Attlee, asking the British public to put in maximum effort in to increase industrial production output by ten per cent

Italian Sharpshooter - World War One era
Italian propaganda postacrd depicting a poised Sharpshooter - World War One era. The caption translates as: For King and Fatherland: this is the ideal of the Sharpshooters Date: circa 1916s

Greek Anti-Plutocrat Propaganda Postcard
An anti Plutocrat Greek postcard from the Second World War, praising the austere simple pride in the life of a Greek soldier against the extravagant largesse of the Plutocrat

Greek Anti-Allies Propaganda Postcard
Greek anti-British/American propaganda postcard from the Second World War. The caption translates as: " Greeks! If you are sorrowful for the future of your children - pity the British children

Captured German officer in Paris
" His triumphant entry into Paris" - reads the sarcastic comment on this card, depicting a captured German officer surrounded by French soldiers

Flying out another girl for the Harem
Hand-drawn anti-Turkish French propaganda card depicting a semi-naked woman being sent as a volunteer to the Sultans Harem via a Turkish kite! circa 1910s

Population Postcard 1930
French postcard encouraging population growth - If France is to live, join the Alliance against depopulation... Date: 1930s

Rome / Trajan Column C1760
Trajans Column in Trajans Forum, Rome.The monument was built under Emperor Trajan and was finished in 113 AD. The carvings depict Trajans campaigns in Dacia. Date: 2nd century AD

Leaflet Distribution
The Liberals take to the air, scattering leaflets over Marble Arch from a plane adorned with portraits of Asquith and Lloyd George Date: 1923

Animals / Cats
Lucky black cat on map chasing German soldiers out of France. Date: 1914 - 1918

WW1 Propaganda
A sinister, if rather coy, note from German soldiers to British soldiers during World War One." Dear Tommy, You are quite welcome to what we are leaving

No Mans Land notice
Hand written German notice in No Mans Land, Gommecourt Sector, May 1916

Montevideo wartime brochure cover
Cover of souvenir brochure of scenes from Montevideo, Uruguay, from the Municipal Office of Propaganda and Information, to the soldiers of Great Britain, defenders of the liberty of the world

General Election: Confusion Worse Confounded
Three bewildered voters read the daily newspaper posters which give rather conflicting views on the status of their preferred political parties

Rent, Profit and Interest, supported by two miners
A propaganda cartoon by W E Jones, made for his father to use while campaigning for support for the Miners Union. It shows three plump gentlemen representing Rent, Profit and Interest

Woman suffering the effects of poverty, South Wales
A woman in despair, suffering the effects of poverty in South Wales. This photograph, entitled Poverty, was used to illustrate talks designed to raise support for the South Wales Miners Federation

Two donkeys in a field. Used as a visual aid for propaganda purposes, used to describe two MPs as a pair of donkeys

The Old Labourers Last Job, picture and poem
An old man sits breaking stones while a workhouse looms behind. In the accompanying verse he bemoans his poverty, particularly at the hands of the Tories who have taxed our clothes and bread

Bones Make Explosives - World War II poster
World War Two poster encouraging civilians on the Home Front to save all bones for salvage as they can be made into bombs for the war effort

International Friendship Exhibition Palace, North Korea
External view of the International Friendship Exhibition Palace (or Hall), a six-storey temple at Myohyang-san (Mysterious Fragrant Mountain) in North Pyongan province

Statue below the Juche Tower, Pyongyang, North Korea
A statue depicting three members of the proletariat, one with a hammer, one with a sickle and one with a writing brush (an idealised worker, a peasant and a " working intellectual" )

Young people in Pyongyang, North Korea
Young people in formation in Kim Il Sung Square, in front of the Korean Central History Museum, Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. They are practising for a mass show to take place in a sports stadium

War Against Japan
Patriotic British poster issued during World War Two with a tank carrying a British Flag and a quote from Winston Churchill stating that

Bones Wanted for Salvage - World War II poster
Ministry of Information poster during World War Two encouraging people to save bones for salvage

Czech Republic - 7th All Sokol Rally in Prague
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Patriotic postcard - Czechoslovakia
A patriotic postcard from Czechoslovakia, possibly published to mark the end of the First World war and the creation of Czechoslovakia out of the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Czech Republic - Promoting Sokol Rally 1920s
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Czech Republic - Sokol Rally in Prague
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

German Children playing War Games during WW1
German Card depicting children playing with model soldiers, balloon and flag in representation of a proclamation of the victorious events of Germany (and their allies)

Britannia as a patriotic Butterfly - WWI
A World War One era postcard from a French series Les Allies - Britannia depicted as a patriotic butterfly, with red ensign wings

Poster by Burkhard Mangold
Poster by the Swiss artist, Burkhard Mangold: Der Wolf zieht um. Probably a comment on German expansionism

London blackout, World War II
London shop windows blacked out with paper and posters advertising their wares and with gas mask propaganda on the home front in London during World War II

Turkish veiled beauty and Battleship
A veiled Turkish beauty in a decorative inset oval, above an illustration of a Turkish World War One era Battleship

German First World War Propaganda Poster
Propaganda postcard - Germany - First World War

Are We Downhearted? by Ethel Parkinson
A World War One postcard showing France, Britain and Belgium represented by three children snuggled up under the shelter of an umbrella together

The Girls He Left Behind Him by Ethel Parkinson
World War One postcard showing a cluster of small girls waving their handkerchiefs and bidding farewell to a war ship sailing off into the distance, obviously carrying a particularly popular sailor

British soldier postcard
World War One postcard featuring children, a boy dressed in a British soldiers uniform holding the Union Jack flag aloft and being presented with a rose by a little girl who holds a basket of

All for the Fatherland
Wounded French soldiers of different countries gather round a newspaper as a nurse reads the latest on Frances involvement in WW1. A German helmet, a war trophy, rests beneath the table

Vultee P. 66 Vanguard plane
Keep em FLYING! - a supportive postcard for the United States Army Navy and Marine Corp, featuring the Vultee P.66 Vanguard. Production of this model ceased in 1942

British and Indian soldiers - WWI allies (1 / 3)
United we stand. Divided we fall British and Indian troops fighting together during WWI

British and Indian soldiers - WWI allies (3 / 3)
What do we care British and Indian troops fighting together during WWI - putting all differences aside in the fight for the common cause

Tom Titt / Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney
Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman. British Liberal Party politician and journalist. Related to Elizabeth Fry (his great aunt). Was head of British propaganda in World War One

Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army Corp
Doing Their Bit. Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army Corp during the First World War

Christian propaganda postcard
A postcard depicting the Ayasofya Mosque with a fascinating inset picture showing the Turkish crescent shoe stamping on the Christian cross and on the reverse of the card the caption reads

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