Propagandopolis
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We Will Bury You! (American propaganda poster, ca. 1962)
Text: We will bury you! Year: 1962. Publisher: Bourns, Inc. Artist: NA. Additional information: Booklet produced by Bourns, Inc., an electronics company, in 1962. The booklet claims to expose ‘the communist blueprint for conquest and domination’ and states its purpose is, in the words of the company’s president Marlan E. Bourns, ‘to alert Americans of…
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The New Imperialism (American cartoon, 1951)
Text: The New Imperialism. Year: 1951. Publisher: St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Artist: Daniel R. Fitzpatrick. Additional information: Shows Stalin as a Tsar whose mantle spreads across half the globe.
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Me travel? (American poster, 1945)
Text: Me travel? …not this summer. Vacation at home. Year: 1945. Publisher: Office of Defense Transportation (ODT). Artist: Albert Dorne. Additional information: Encourages citizens to forgo summer travels in aid of the war effort. Both the US and UK embarked on ‘Holiday at Home’ campaigns during the war, largely to relieve the tremendous wartime strain…