Propaganda Collection (#7)

Events / Ireland / Valera
Election propaganda posters for Eamon De Valera Date: 1923

Pro British Stamps
British first - we do not stock Russian goods. These stamps were issued free to British businessmen and traders for use in the crack down on cheap Russian goods. Date: 1930s

French Colonial
CIVILISATION ON THE MARCH The Germans despised the French for using their Colonial troops, and liked to depict them as apes and (as here) rapists Date: 1920

WW2 - Propaganda first day cover - Do Your Share For Freedom
WW2 - Propaganda first day cover - " Do Your Share For Freedom And Victory Will Be Ours" Date: 1942

WW1 - Patriotic Fancy Dress
WW1 era - British Home front - A remarkable set of 3 postcards featuring three women, two of whom are dressed in patriotic fancy dress

WW2 - National Savings Committee Flier - Wings for Victory - The Skys The Limit. Date: circa 1941

New air route opens between Italy and France
Postcard commemorating the opening of a new air route between Italy and France in 1935. This was in the 13th year of the Fascist era in Italy (the 1st year was 1922)

Fancy Dress - WW1 - Group as patriotic national archetypes including Peace, Marianne, Britannia, Liberty and a lady from Japan

Vesta Tilley in khaki
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

WW1 recruitment: employers encourage servants to enlist, 1915
" 5 questions to those who employ male servant" s: an advertisement intended to encourage employers to get their servants to enlist during World War One. Date: 1915

WW1 - German poster shows England as Hauptfiend
WW1 - The German poster translates to, " He is guilty. While you must continue to fight and bleed. While you must go without. While you must save your coal and light

Boer War propaganda. Boer War propaganda postcard.Date: circa 1901

WW1 - French airborne chivilary, 1915
WW1 - Two French pilots seated in their aircraft called Lorraine as it prepares to set off to pay tribute to one of their dead comrades

Friedrichshafen FF 33H German plane, whose crew are apparently rescuing the crew of a downed enemy floatplane -- possibly staged for propaganda purposes

WW1 - French troops holding captured German trenches, 1915
WW1 - French troops during their recent successful operations near Les Eparges, France

WW1 - Lord Derbys Recruitment Drive - November 17th 1915
WW1 - Derbys Day - A cartoon, or satorical print from the magazine Punch on the subject of recruitment for the army, during the First World War

WW1 - Kitchener congratulates heroes of Dardanelles Campaign
Colonel Henry Elliott Chevallier Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener (1846-1937) - congratulating heroes of the Dardanelles Campaign. Date: circa 1916

WW1 - German women make blankets out of newspapers at the Palace of the German Princess in Berlin. Date: 1915

WW2 greetings card, Lord Haw Haw
WW2 greetings card, satire on Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) (inside) -- That Voice Again! Date: circa 1942

German Officer in Liege, Belgium - 1915
German illustration from a Berlin paper depicting the confident swagger of a German Officer in Liege, Belgium - 1915. Date: 1915

WWI. France (1915). Propaganda Poster to promote war loans to finance the cost of the war. Emprunt de la defense nationale, N oublie pas de souscrire... pour la victoire !... et le retour

A Censored Incident by H. M. Bateman
A cartoon by H. M. Bateman in their issue devoted to lampooning censorship during the Great War. Mr. Hilaire Belloc explaining how the war should be conducted

WW2 Poster - KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
Poster inscribed Keep Calm and Carry On under temporary ( ) King George VI crown. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945)

Women WW1 Joan of Arc
A poster appealing to the women of Britain to buy war savings certificates to help Save your Country, as Joan of Arc had saved France in the past. Once again the artist uses the iconic image of St

Suffragette Give Me a Vote Ceramic
A wild-eyed suffragette dressed in the colours of the W.S.P.U - purple, white and green, waves a flag which reads, I Want a Vote

Sphere cover - Italy receiving shield of gold by Matania
Front cover illustration by Sphere special artist Fortunino Matania showing Italy in allegorical human form (with an impressive chest plate protecting her bosoms)

Service cards in a window in Arundel, WW1
Four cards representing the fact that four members of a household in Maltravers Street in Arundel had enlisted 1914

Recruitment poster on post box, WW1
The Call to Arms - a recruitment poster pasted to a post box reminding Britains men that their King and Country needed them in 1914. Date: 1914

WW2 Poster -- be discreet
You may be a walking RAF - but don t let everyone know it! Be discreet! Colour lithograph by Sgt Norman Tiger Harrison, Royal Corps of Signals, India

WW2 Poster -- What are you doing about Education?
What are YOU doing about EDUCATION Army Education Poster, by Sgt H F (Fred) Darking (1911-1999), Royal Engineers. Date: 1945

WW1 Football
John Bull, in the garb of an English Army officer, appears in the changing room after a football match in an attempt to shame the players into joining the armed forces

Recruiting band in London, WW1
A band from a Highland regiment use a recruiting banner, seen for the first time in London during the early months of the First World War. It reads, We are marching to the recruiting station

Business as usual - despite air raids, 1915
Business as usual - despite air raids: an amourous couple carry on regardless during an air raid. Date: 1915

Bystander cover-Derby scheme
An illustration showing the number of men attested in 1916 for the volunteer (Derby) scheme to encourage military recruitment

British propaganda leaflet - AP No. 56, Serial No. 12816 - What are you doing in Lithuania Approximately 600 words in German script - translation available. Commemorative Art

Johnny Get Your Gun by Frank Reynolds, outbreak of WW1
Illustration by Frank Reynolds showing a young man in tennis whites smoking a cigarette hesitating while the rest of the country rush to the colours at the outbreak of the First World War

Patriotism at the Halls, WW1
Sketches by Tony Sarg showing performers at various London shows singing patriotic songs shortly after the outbreak of the First World War

Replica of German shell sold in Berlin, WW1
A British soldier holding a life-size replica card of a German shell, as thrown by big siege guns, complete with photographs of places in which the shells had inflicted particular damage - Liege

French biplane dropping propaganda leaflets, WWI
How the French army contradicts German misstatements

Wartime information poster, WW2
Wartime information poster -- turn that GAS down! Less gas -- more ships. Date: 1940s

Waiting for Daddy by Lawson Wood, WW1 postcard
Waiting for daddy. I must take care of mummy now

Harry Lauder with his recruiting pipe band, WW1
Harry Lauder (1870-1950), Scottish music hall entertainer, pictured with a pipe he had organised, with the sanction of the War Office

Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, WW1
Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, showing Kaiser Wilhelm shivering in the sea at Calais, with Dover guarded by battleships in the far distance during the First World War

Cartoon, Fritz to Wilhelm, WW1
Cartoon, Fritz to Wilhelm during the First World War -- I didn t want to do it, but you made me. Date: 1914

Cartoon, The Work That Never Ceases, WW1
Cartoon, The Work That Never Ceases -- scene at Krupps works in Essen, Germany, during the First World War, where iron crosses are manufactured for distribution by the Kaiser. Date: 1914

Cartoon, German soldier with mask of Culture, WW1
Cartoon, German soldier with a mask of Culture (Kultur) during the First World War. Date: 1914

Hands Across the Sea, WW1 postcard, Lawson Wood
Patriotic wartime postcard showing A British and French officer, flags in hand, shaking hands across the Channel. Date: c.1916

WW2 poster, Industrial Propaganda keeps production up to concert pitch. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Cartoon, The Glad Hand, WW1
Cartoon, The Glad Hand -- Brother Jonathan (representing the USA) tells Kaiser Wilhelm to wash his hand first, before shaking it

Teddy Benson in uniform, a young recruiting officer, WW1
Four year old Master Teddy Benson, doing his bit by donning khaki and angling for recruits in 1915. He could be seen most mornings in Hyde Park. Date: 1915

Founders of the Sportsmans Battalion
The organiser of the Sportsmans Battalion and her husband, the recruiting-officer-in-chief, Mr and Mrs Cunliffe Owen

Cambridge University sportsmen during WW1
A spread from The Sketch magazine featuring 76 portraits of Cambridge Blues who had joined up during the First World War

Notice to Irish Munsters from Germans, 1916
A placard placed by the Germans above their trenches facing the Munsters after the Irish uprising of April 1916, claiming, English guns are firing at your wife and children

German air attack on British squadron by G. H. Davis
A German air attack on a British squadron in the North Sea, 150 miles off the coast of Norway, in the early stages of the Second World War

Cartoon, Men from The Moon, WW1
Cartoon, Men from The Moon, commenting on three neutral powers in the early weeks of the First World War (Holland, America and Italy), and how they are regarded by the German government

American first world war propaganda: liberty bonds
We eat lots of chow over here, and liberty bonds pay for it

American First World War postcard. Kind thoughts from glorious France! 1917-1918

Lo-Shun Art Academy
The Lo-Shun Art Academy, situated in caves and divided into Drama, Music and Painting departments, with the courses lasting six months

Anti-Japanese wall art
Anti-Japanese wall paintings during the Sino-Japanese War Date: 1941

Chinese propaganda
A Chinese propaganda poster during the war against Japan Date: 1939

Anti-Japanese printing press
An anti-Japanese printing press based in a cave outside the Chinese city of Hangzhou (Hangchow) Date: 1938

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Buy Victory Loan leaflet
A Message from the Skies - a Victory Loan leaflet dropped from British air balloons during the World War One war savings campaign. Date: 1917

Liberty and Justice - USA
USA - Liberty and Justice for all. World War Two propaganda postcard produced in the United States of America. Date: 1941

Suffragette selling copies of The Suffragette
London Life - A Rotary Postcard photograph showing a suffragette selling copies of The Suffragette paper - October, 1912

I m not afraid of the Germans - Boy & Patriotic Bulldogs WW1
WW1 - I m not afraid of the Germans - Boy sat between two Patriotic Bulldogs. Date: circa 1916

WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - emulating ancestors
WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - a little boy strives to emulate the military feats of our ancestors, or in this case his elders! Date: circa 1916

WW2 - Home Front - Two boys playing on a see saw
WW2 - Home Front, November 1940 - Two boys playing on a see saw - happy and content and not afraid of the war raging around them

WW2 - Home front - British housewives queue to buy eggs
October, 1940 - British housewives queue to buy eggs, both domestically sourced and supplied from the Dominions - in this case, Canada. Date: 1940

For The Empire! King giving his Two Sons to the War
For The Empire! King George V giving his Two Sons to the War - on the left HRH Edward The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) (1894-1972)

Election propaganda postcard for the Liberal Party, featuring a quote from The Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future Prime Minister) David Lloyd George on 30th July 1909

Joseph Chamberlain as a Lion Tamer, taming his various opponents and enemies, named as the Radicals, the opposition Press and the Boer African Lion (bearing a suspicious likeness to Paul Kruger)

John Bull standing at the parting of the ways
The Parting of the Wats - John Bulls Rival Guides

Patriotic Postcard, Signees of Declaration of Independence
Flowers of Freedom - The Spirit of 1776 had for its motto: " Right, and not might, shall prevail." That motto still lives with Germanys Unconditional Surrender of May 8th, 1945

WW2 - Russian Propaganda - Repelling Germans in the Baltic
WW2 - New Years greetings to the Baltic - a Soviet propaganda postcard from 1942 showing a Russian soldier finishing off an Invading German in the Baltic

WW2 - Propaganda - parachuting safely back to his girl
WW2 - Propaganda - the benefits of being a member of the Italian Airforce! Relief on the girls face as her man parachutes safely from his stricken plane to join her back on the ground

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Listening to Winston Churchill
Churchill: " We Shall never stop, never weary

Twixt Love and Duty - WW1 - Soldiers leaving for the front say goodbye to their loved ones at the railway station. Date: circa 1915

Thessaloniki, Greece - Patriotic Ottoman Empire Card (when Thessaloniki was still under Ottoman control), showing a shooting exercise by Cavalry troops in the Champ de Mars. Date: circa 1903

WW2 - Royal Air Force pilot and positive poem
WW2 - photograph of a Royal Air Force pilot accompanied by a positive patriotic poem by G. D. Wilkinson. Keep Smiling ! Date: circa 1943

WW2 - The Scales of Victory - Oil and Steel Output compared between the Free Labour of the British Commonwealth and the USA and the Slave Labour of Germany and her subject nations

WW2 - Canadian Patriotic Postcard - Land, Sea and Air, We re over there. Date: circa 1943

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Home Grown
" Every pound you lend today will hasten victory on its way." A little girl and boy proudly water their window box vegetable patch - doing their bit to dig for victory during WW2

Nurses from Great Ormond Street Hospital examine bomb
Nurses from The Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital examine fragments from the bomb which struck the building but (thankfully) caused no loss of life - September, 1940

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