Propaganda Collection (#5)

British propaganda for the American entry into the war
The card shows a young woman holding aloft the Stars and Stripes with a background of aeroplanes in the sky. We are coming brother, coming, it says. WW1 Date: 1918

British Home propaganda
The young girl in a sailor's uniform is wearing a hat with Iron Duke on it

British propaganda for America
A young woman in the form of the Statue of Liberty is wearing part of the American flag. The Caption is My Country tis of thee, the name of the current National Anthem. WW1 Date: 1918

British propaganda for Italy
One of a series showing pretty ladies in National dress. This one is for Italy. WW1 Date: 1916

British propaganda for Russia
One of a series showing pretty ladies in National dress. This one is for Russia. WW1 Date: 1914

British propaganda for Belgium
One of a series showing pretty ladies in National dress. This one is for Belgium

British propaganda for France
One of a series showing pretty ladies in National dress. This one, holding the Tricolor, is for France. WW1 Date: 1916

National flag and pretty lady depicting Japan
British propaganda depicting ally Japan. Japan had been an ally since 1902 and formally declared war on 23 August 1914. WW1 Date: 1916

British naval propaganda
A pretty girl wearing a sailor's uniform and purporting to belong to a ship called the H.M.S. Great Britain stands beside the Union flag. WW1 Date: 1916

German propaganda for the Home Front
An unusual card showing a smiling German girl wearing a soldier's cap looking through a paper screen. WW1 Date: circa 1914

British propaganda welcoming the Americans
Little uniformed British girl gives a pointed thankyou to a little girl in stars and stripes I have waited for you for so long'. WW1 Date: 1917

French propaganda card welcoming the Americans
French soldier has his arm around a young woman wearing an outfit of stars and stripes. WW1 Date: 1917

Jingoistic British propaganda card
Soldiers representing the Dominion countries stand together over the words We don't want to fight..etc WW1 Date: circa 1914

WW1 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Patriotic message
An inset portrait accompanies a message to the German people from Kaiser Wilhelm II a month after the start of the First World War - 26th August 1914 (the war began on 28th July 1914). Date: 1914

Communist China - Palestinian women guerrillas
Palestinian women guerrillas training with heavy guns to gain the skills to fight the enemy - the Peoples Republic of China was a supporter of Palestine against the State of Israel during the 1950s

Communist China - young men on training exercise
Young men with a red flag on an exercise designed to strengthen the mind and the body during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

Communist China - chemical workers
A group of industrial workers discussing a technical issue at a chemical factory in Communist China, working together during the Cultural Revolution with an emphasis on the raising of standards

Communist China - teachers doing manual work
Communist China - teachers from Qinghua (Tsinghua) University and Beijing University forced to do heavy manual work during the Cultural Revolution period

Communist China - soldiers with flag
Chinese soldiers with a flag, from the Military and Political University of Resistance against Japan (Military Academy), during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Kaiser Wilhelm II - Turkish WW1 Propaganda Postcard
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) - a very interesting Turkish WW1 Propaganda Postcard of their Central Powers ally, set in an oval with a laurel wreath-style border above three lines of Ottoman script

WW2 - Patriotic postcard - Free French Army
WW2 - Postcard encouraging men to enlist with the Free French Army - Citizens With Weapons! A single battle for a single homeland!. circa 1942

French Cockerel proudly defeating the German Black Eagle
The French Cockerel stands proud having defeated the German Eagle (standing on a German fur busby decorated with a Totenkopf - Deaths Head symbols). Date: 1914

WW1 poster, Hun or Home?
Poster, Hun or Home? Buy more liberty bonds. circa 1918

WW1 - Italian Propaganda - The Tortoise and the Hare
WW1 - Italian Propaganda postcard - re-telling of the story of the tortoise (The Allies) and the hare (The Central Powers) striving to be the first to gain Victory. Date: circa 1916

Poster by Wlodzimierz Zakrzewski. Poland
Polish postwar communist propaganda poster showing soldier of communist Armia Ludowa resistance and soldier of Armia Krajowa. Made by Wlodzimierz Zakrzewski. Poland. Krakow. Gestapo Museum

Poster of the Propaganda campaign of Maos Little Red Book, 1970. China

WW1 poster, Don t... 1. Don t use a motor car or motor cycle for pleasure purposes. 2. Don t buy new clothes needlessly. Don t be ashamed of wearing old clothes in wartime. 3

Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1
Cartoon, German intellectual women as seen by the French. Date: 1916

Propaganda / Baby Impaled
Grinning enemy soldier with a baby impaled on his bayonet Date: 1909

Cartoon, German officer (Boche Faces), WW1
Cartoon, Boche Faces. A group of German officers, looking rather stolid and described as the asphyxiating brutes of humanity. Date: 1915

Caterpillar Tank cartoon scatters fleeing Germans
Proposal for a caterpillar tank - in World War One Date: circa 1916

WW2 poster, And please don t throw FOOD away either
Second world war poster by Fougasse, encouraging people not to waste clothing or food. A sailor on board ship throws his trousers to the winds

WW1 - Anzacs fighting near the Krithia heights, Gallipoli
WW1 - The Anzac troops gain fresh ground in Gallipoli as they storm the enemys line near the Krithia heights. The soldiers fight among the ridges of the road to Constantipole. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Remember the Lusitania
Remember the Lusitania! Enlist Today. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster in letterpress, using emotive anti-German propaganda. Date: 1916

Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys, WW2
Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys. Wartime flyer from World War Two showing civilian ships escorted safely across the sea by British planes and destroyers. Date: World War Two

WW2 Poster -- Smash Japanese Aggression
Smash Japanese Aggression. Propaganda poster, colour lithograph, showing the Gloucester Regiment in action. Date: 1945

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Letter from George V
An open letter To my people from King George V. One of thirteen printed posters produced in Britain between August 1914 - March 1916. Date: 1916

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- To the Women of Britain
To the Women of Britain -- Some of your men folk are holding back on your account

Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird). 1887-1965. Best known for editorship of Punch magazine and World War I propaganda posters Date: circa 1928

Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, WW1
Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, showing Crown Prince Wilhelm during the First World War, taking anything else he can lay his hands

WW2 poster, To the Merchant Navy, Thank You! Date: 1940s

Germans showing guns on the Lusitania 1915
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on 7 May 1915 during the First World War, by a German U-boat, hitting the Lusitania twice with torpedoes, sinking within 18 minutes

German postcard, U-Boat and sailing ship, WW1
German propaganda postcard, depicting a German U-Boat which has fired on an enemy sailing ship and set it on fire during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German propaganda postcard, Our U-Boats, WW1
German propaganda postcard, Our U-Boats, depicting an enemy seaplane crashing into the sea near a German submarine during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German poster, England is to blame, WW1
German propaganda poster, declaring that England is to blame for all the problems in Germany during the First World War, depicting a man in a Scottish cap with a bulldog at his feet

WW2 - London Auxiliary Ambulance Service Driver on the farm
WW2 - British Home front, October 1941 - Mrs John Steel, daughter of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British Pathologist, lends her hand to the war effort

The motto of Paris - WWI - Propaganda - Patriotism
Flutuat nec mergitur

Postcard illustrating the merits of Free Trade - Larger Loaf
Postcard from 1906 issued as part of the campaign to elect the Liberal politician Sir Robert Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (18361928) to office

WWI - Propaganda postcard - Kaisers dream bubbles burst
WWI - Propaganda postcard - The German Kaisers dream bubbles are popping before his eyes

WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them

WWII - Mussolini slips up invading Greece - First Day Cover. A nice pun on Greece and Grease. Date: 1941

Uncle Sam. US World War Two propaganda postcard
The Personification of the United States of America - Uncle Sam leaning against a large letter v on this US World War Two propaganda postcard. Date: 1941

WW2 poster, This is one way to hail a bus
WW2 poster by Fougasse, This is one way to hail a bus -- this is another. Please queue up at a fixed stopping point

Russian Patriotic Propaganda Poster - Red Army Day
" The glory of these days will never fall silent." A quote from the march of the Amur Far East partisans of the Russian Civil war era

Greek Anti-British Propaganda Postcard - this translates as: " Greek Soldiers - this is whom you are fighting

Bayonet Charge - British soldier - World War One
Don t be Alarmed, the Bulford Boys are on guard

Ken Livingstone with Morrissey, Mari Wilson and others
Ken Livingstone (Kenneth Robert Livingstone, b 1945), British Labour politician

Monument, North Korean Communist Party, Pyongyang
View of the monument to the founding of the North Korean Workers Party, in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea

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

Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey as a monkey
What my beautiful Councils have given me

Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey - Turkish Propaganda
Turkish propaganda card. Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918) oversaw a period of decline in the power and extent of the Empire, ruling from 31 August 1876 until he was deposed on 27 April 1909

Liberty Bonds War Poster
A World War One poster urging people to buy Liberty Bonds to prevent the Germans attacking civilians

John Bull as Protector
John Bull der Freund und Beschutzer der Kleinen - John Bull depicted as the friend and protector of lesser nations

Poster; Mechanize
we Shall Mechanise the Donbas

French Wwi Propaganda
Child-appeal is exploited in this French World War One poster encouraging donations

WW1 - Uniform of the Allies series - British Officer barking out a command to his troops set against a backdrop of (a slightly stylised version of) the red ensign flag. Date: circa 1915

WW1 - Captured German Guns - Horse Guards Parade, London. British trophies from the Battlefield

WW2 - Souvenir sewn postcard - from France
WW2 - Souvenir sewn postcard sent home by a British soldier stationed in France, featuring tricolore and union flag lettering. Date: 1940

Five Patriotically-dressed children - WW1 era. The tall girl in the centre is Britannia with Union Flag shield and trident, and from the left are: Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England

WW1 Propaganda - Vive L Italie - Gloire aux Allies. Date: circa 1916

WW1 - A Red Cross dog relieves himself on a German Standard
WW1 - A Red Cross dog in France shows his opinion of the enemy by relieving himself on the fallen German Border post at St Petit Croix (where the Germans crossed the border in 1914) Date: 1915

A scene from the Propaganda Film Unmarried
A scene from the Propaganda Film " Unmarried" : Lady Greenwood(wife of Sir Hamar Greenwood), Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck(in the chair); Mr Gerald du Maurier and Dr Saleeby(standing)

Gymnastics Demonstration in the Stadium, Ankara Turkey. Date: circa 1930s

Frank Pick, 1940
Frank Pick, wartime Director-General of the Ministry of Information, formerly vice-chairman of London Transport. 1940

Charles Peake, Sir Walter Monckton and Lord Hood
Charles Peake (left-centre), head of the Foreign Office News Department, and Sir Walter Monckton (right-centre) with Lord Hood (far right). 1940

Walter Monckton at the Civil Service
Walter Monckton, future Viscount Monckton, was brought in to the propaganda department of the Civil Service during the War

WW2 - Lets Go! USA - Keep em Flying! - US Coastguard Date: 1944

Communist China - sabotaged supply line
Chinese villagers standing behind an uplifted railway track in Communist China - they had sabotaged a supply line to cut off the enemys route in wartime. circa 1940s

Communist China - sorting weapons and ammunition
Communist China - soldiers sorting weapons and boxes of ammunition captured from the enemy, probably during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). circa 1940s

Communist China - soldiers in wartime, taking time out for political study and discussion, while others look out for enemy action, probably during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Communist China - scene in Jan an
Landscape in Yan an in Shaanxi Province, with marching people and three red flags during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China

Communist China - communication team in water
Adults and children, members of a philosophy communication team, crossing a river in the mountainous area of Dabie

Communist China - workers playing basketball
Workers playing and watching a game of basketball after work during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

Communist China - State Propaganda Booklet
Young woman member of a communication team, reading Maos Little Red Book with a poor female farmer during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China

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