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Military Recruitment and Propaganda

Vintage illustrations and propaganda from the World Wars promoting military enlistment and depicting wartime sentiments through art.

Death to the Finnish Butchers!, Leo, Boris Mikhaylovich (1904-1975)
Death to the Finnish Butchers!, Leo, Boris Mikhaylovich (1904-1975)
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Old Cop Reprimands Bourgeois, Police, Law Enforce, & Crime
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Postcard depicting the republican 5th Regimentduring the Spanish Civil War
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N ° 28 / News / Guillaume Tartefle, Bismarck, you go once again, I told you. Mein got! mein got !! ... (IT)
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During this period Japan is the scene of constant rivalry between powerful feudal clans - this battle scene is from a print of the period. Date: 12 / 13th centuries
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First World War cartoon, How Long Showing an allegorical harvest scene, with death in the form of a skeleton driving a team of horses, cutting down regiments of soldiers like corn in a field. Date: September 1914
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Europe, Germany, Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie of the Berlin Wall.
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Cartoon - Operation Ferdinand. John Collins (1917-2007)
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World War Two: Sentimental French postcard for civilians to send to their men at the frontline.
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WWII - Pin-up showing a lot of leg, accompanied by the caption: "This Front is quite active!" Date: 1943
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A satirical view of a French soldier guarding against radical revolutionary ideas. 19th century France. French illustration 1890
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Italian leader Benito Mussolini battered and bruised as he struggles to work out how to win a fight "It's Alla Greek to me!" - USA - WW2 Propaganda Date: 1941
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World War Two: Patriotic Russian war postcard depicting Russian soldiers and tanks in action.
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Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 19 May 1935).British author, archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat. Lawrence was portrayed by Peter O'Toole in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia,
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Norway and Sweden, 1905-1909. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Norway, Sweden
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A Coast Guard member secures a boat's mooring line to a bollard. US Coast Guard Art Program 2003 Collection, Ob ID # 200318, "Securing the Lines," Sharon Way-Howard, watercolor, 11 x 9
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Adolf Hitler inside Lansburg prison following the Beer Hall Putsch, Munich, Germany 1923
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Italian fascist propaganda postcard produced during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century
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French soldiers marching beside a river and over a bridge into a shelled Verdun. The battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest and costliest battle World War I. From publication sponsored by a French railway company, 1919.
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Colour illustration of an army captain holding a young boy upside down saying "Shit, he's not the right size (big enough to be in the army according to the rules). I'm going to have more problems again." The child has loads of bullets in him.
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Careless Talk Brings Tragedy in Wartime. Artist: L. B. Jameson Contributor: Director of Public Information; Minister of National War Services. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters
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Busy soldier's correspondence card. I've been here two weeks now, sergeant who do I see about a raise! , Military personnel, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Soviet Russian world War Two postcard showing a heroic soldier from the siege of Sebastopol 1942
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English cartoon showing the devil and German soldier looking at monthly report with numbers of killed innocent civilians, British propaganda accusing Germany of committing atrocities
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World war Two, Soviet propaganda postcard depicting heroic Russian soldiers and aircraft in action
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Cartoon - The Field of Honor. John Collins (1917-2007)
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A chart comparing NATO and Warsaw Pact land-based intermediate-range nuclear force aircraft deployed at the end of 1985. Country: Unknown
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Marine opens Bar of Chocolate.
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Double Cross, Police, Law Enforce, & Crime
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Digitally restored vector war propaganda poster. This vintage World War II cartoon poster features a soldier charging into battle and a factory. It declares - Making America Strong, US Industry Today Employs 18 Men To back Up One Soldier In The Army. It also shows how this ratio has changed throughout history.
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'Supremacy'! British made. Like the British Army, the Clemak has firmly established its ascendency. It may be outnumbered, it cannot be beaten. It may be attacked by every weapon known to commercial warfare, but still it triumphs. Sheer merit! Date: 1915
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Danger From Lyctus Beetle. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters
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Old French postcard representing a french soldier eating white bread and a german soldier eating rationing bread (Kleie und Kartoffeln K.K.).