Empire on the march: A 1939 poster emphasising the common aim
Posted on 10/03/2007 9:49:49 PM PDT by Stoat
From a patriotic call to eat less bread to proud soldiers extolling the benefits of signing up, these rare wartime posters are some of the finest pieces of propaganda art ever produced. Now they are going on public display for the first time in decades, in an exhibition appropriately named Weapons Of Mass Communication at London's Imperial War Museum.
Empire on the march: A 1939 poster emphasising the common aim
Dig deep for victory: Buying war bonds in 1917 helped the civilians feel they were contributing
Keeping the home fires burning: An iconic Great War image popular in 1915
Below: God save the village green - this 1942 poster left no doubt as to what Great Britain represented, and above putting the kybosh on the Kaiser
Home thoughts: Consumer goods raised morale in 1914
Clockwise from top: This 1915 poster jogged a few consciences; harsh necessity of war by 1917 overtook the patriotic zeal of 1914
Peacetime role: In 1919, the Army offered a secure berth
The Nelson touch: A 1939 poster depicts Britannia and her people as the shield of democracy
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What we should have dusted off and displayed after 9-11...
So true, so true.
bttt
I really doubt the people of today’s Britain or America would have been able to stand up to Hitler.
Thanks for the post.
NOTHING beats the wWII era posters from the Allies...
for a time when Art was sent off to war in service of the good guys.
I’ve been to Bristol/Bath area...I’ve GOT to make it to London,
The Imperial War Museum and “all the rest” some day!
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Here are some "online posters" I made. They are free for anyone to copy and use.
Hi Stoat,
Nice to meet a fellow collector of WWII posters!! I had no idea that there was another on this forum.
So...the usual questions: How many so far? Do you display them in your home? What’s your greatest find? You know the drill...LOL!
You're quite welcome, and I'm delighted that you like it!
NOTHING beats the wWII era posters from the Allies...
for a time when Art was sent off to war in service of the good guys.
Agreed....very stirring and powerful.
I’ve been to Bristol/Bath area...I’ve GOT to make it to London,
The Imperial War Museum and “all the rest” some day!
I hope that you will, but a word of warning....plan your museum visits carefully. There are so many wonderful and fascinating museums in London (and all of the UK) that unless you plan you can end up wanting to roll out a sleeping bag in a corner of the British Museum and asking the staff if you can stay there enjoying the exhibits for a month, because there is just SO MUCH!
A visit to London's museums will be an experience you'll never forget :-)
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
Hello :-) <<< extending furry stoat paw for a polite handshake
Nice to meet a fellow collector of WWII posters!! I had no idea that there was another on this forum.
So...the usual questions: How many so far? Do you display them in your home? What’s your greatest find? You know the drill...LOL!
I'm terribly sorry, there has been a misunderstanding and it's all my fault :-(
Because the original posted article here is from the Daily Mail, and it's about an exhibition of these posters, I wanted to add some additional images (because the Daily Mail included so few!) and I wanted to make it clear to readers that the images I was adding were mine and not part of the collection being shown at the museum, or the Daily Mail article. I regret that I am not a collector of the hard-copy originals or reproductions, I'm merely someone who appreciates the art and the message conveyed therein and collects the images from the internet whenever I run across them. I can see how when I said that these were "from my collection" it may indeed sound as though I own the originals....sadly I don't.
I hope that you're not upset with me for expressing myself so poorly, and I sincerely apologize for leaving the wrong impression.
However, I'm hoping that you might be willing to add images from your REAL collection to this thread :-)
I had a great propaganda poster on Afghanistan. It was the SOF in a Little Bird and listed some the cities. I lost the URL of the creator.
If anyone can post it or list any modern propaganda posters, that would be great.
No...I'm not upset...I always love threads about WWII posters. I only thought that I'd finally run across one of my Ebay competitors...LOL! You have already posted a few of those in my collection...I will try to find some images of those that I have (mine are framed, so real photos would not come across well).
Plenty here as well.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/
You don’t really know your own people then...
There is nothing wrong with Tommys or Yanks..
The problem lies in Leadership...
Todays leaders are whores for money..
The enemy thru Petrodollars, Asian Dollars, Eurodollars has so much money they are able to buy the extended families of Elected Officials which renders efforts to track and gain disclosure of influence peddling meaningless.
W
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