The Propaganda Archive

A project by Propagandopolis to create the internet’s largest archive of propaganda posters, postcards, pamphlets, stamps and other ephemera.

This archive is currently a work in progress. New content and features will be added over the coming months. If you would like to learn about or support the project, you can do so below:

1900

Are our teachings, then, in vain? (American cartoon, 1900)

Text: Are our teachings, then, in vain? Year: 1900. Publisher: Puck magazine. Artist: NA. Additional information: Confucius and Jesus looking down in disapproval at Chinese Boxer rebels and Christians battling during the Boxer rebellion. The Boxer at the bottom left holds a flag reading “Do not do unto others what you would not that others…

June 13, 2023

Propagandopolis

North America, United States

1900, Boxer Rebellion, Puck, USA
Down, Kruger, down! (British poster, 1900)

Text: Liverpool Express. Down, Kruger, down!!! Pretoria!!! Year: 1900. Publisher: Liverpool Express. Artist: NA. Additional information: Published during the Second Boer War, showing the British lion subduing the Boer leader Paul Kruger. Pretoria was the capital of the Transvaal Republic, which was led by Kruger: the British captured the city in June 1900, forcing the…

May 12, 2023

Propagandopolis

Europe, United Kingdom

1900, Boer War, Britain, Lion, Paul Kruger, South Africa