1942
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The United Nations are going to win this war (American postcard, 1942)
Text: The United Nations are going to win this war. Year: 1942. Publisher: NA. Artist: Demosthenes Scourboutis. Additional Information: Shows Roosevelt and Churchill as the world’s helmsmen, with General MacArthur below them and various Allied nations assembled at the bottom.
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Lucky Strike GREEN has gone to war! (American advertisement)
Text: Lucky Strike GREEN has gone to war! Year: 1942. Publisher: Lucky Strike cigarettes. Artist: NA. Additional Information: From a 1942 campaign launched after the company changed the packaging colour from green to white (the gist obviously being that the green previously used in the cigarette packaging is now being used for military equipment). Designer…
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For what avail the plough or sail (American poster, ca. 1942)
Text: Freedom from want, Freedom from fear, Freedom of religion, Freedom of speech. For what avail the plough or sail / Or land or life if freedom fail? Year: ca. 1942. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional Information: Poster depicts Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek with the ‘Four Freedoms’. Lines from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem…
