US WWII Propaganda Posters - Democratic Underground

kwyjibo

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Fri Jun-23-06 10:08 PM
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US WWII Propaganda Posters

Check out this amazing Flickr set of posters from the WWII era!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/sets/72057594121519817/

This last one makes me wonder if this opportunity for women to enter the workforce had never happened, what would the status of women be now?

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Bruce McAuley

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Fri Jun-23-06 10:19 PM
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1. Here's another I just discovered...

This one I just found today, talk about coincidence...Change the race and put "arab hunting license" in there, and it'd be almost current.
Strange how propaganda works.

Bruce

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Cerridwen

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Sun Jun-25-06 09:46 AM
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9. The image you posted made me think of this...

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Hugin

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Sun Jun-25-06 09:50 AM
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10. Actually, other websites are issuing...

Democrat hunting licenses.

They say all political parties are the same... :eyes:

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Big Kahuna

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Fri Jun-23-06 10:27 PM
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2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivor portraits

http://www.janebernhardt.com/hibakusha_project.html

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Captain Hilts

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Fri Jun-23-06 10:38 PM
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3. The women's movement - and general civil rights - would have been delayed

by decades without WWII.

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Endangered Specie

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Fri Jun-23-06 10:49 PM
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4. See what these propoganda cartoons do to you...

This one sends chills down me at the end...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2857278388843745235&q=spirit+of+%2743

Interesting....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEHd0nGNuo&search=banned%20cartoons
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5611353179314742028&q=blitz+wolf

yikes!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2375352037449803288&q=education+for+death

par for the course

one of my favorites, quite ironic:

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rwenos

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Fri Jun-23-06 11:32 PM
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5. "Now You Take Your Average Russki . . .

. . . I mean, Chrissakes, he's got GUTS. But frankly, we're beginning to think Ivan is long on talk and short on, well, performance, Mr. President."

General Buck Turgidson, in the War Room, in "Dr. Strangelove."

GREAT posters. Thanks for the links. Here's another link to Spanish Civil War posters (of interest to all anti-fascists):

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/vizindex.html

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dipsydoodle

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Sat Jun-24-06 07:48 AM
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6. I always assumed this to be

the US equivalent of the UK's Walls have Ears poster but naybe it's a modern one. Cracks me up all the same.

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Monkey see Monkey Do

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Sat Jun-24-06 11:24 AM
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7. Have you ever seen the Dr Seuss cartoons?

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991) was a life-long cartoonist: in high school in Springfield, Massachusetts; in college at Dartmouth (Class of 1925); as an adman in New York City before World War II; in his many children's books, beginning with To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937). Because of the fame of his children's books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained largely unknown, we do not think of Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist. But for two years, 1941-1943, he was the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM (1940-1948), and for that journal he drew over 400 editorial cartoons.

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/

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kwyjibo

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Sun Jun-25-06 09:42 AM
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8. wow, I had no idea

I have seen some of his paintings though with more adult themes.. he had quite an imagination. I'll have to check out those cartoons. Thanks!

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