World War Two
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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…
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Strike down this monster! (American poster, 1942)
Text: Strike down this monster! Year: 1942. Publisher: U.S. Forest Service. Artist: NA. Additional information: Shows a man protecting a factory from a flaming wolf, representing forest fires.
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American democracy, private enterprise – and they said our system was crumbling! (American poster, ca. 1943)
Text: American democracy, private enterprise – and they said our system was crumbling! Year: ca. 1943. Publisher: Think American Institute. Artist: NA. Additional information: Shows a worker standing over a destroyed sculpture of Mussolini against a sunlit backdrop of factories and skyscrapers. The Think American Institute was a New York-based organisation formed by industrialists in…
