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Reelect Roosevelt (American poster, 1940)
Text: Reelect Roosevelt. Year: 1940. Publisher: NA. Artist: Mitchell Loeb. Additional information: The poster contrasts the purported achievements of Roosevelt’s first two terms with the purported failures of his predecessor Herbert Hoover. Scenes of misery and crisis in Hoover’s America in 1932 are juxtaposed with the more hopeful scenes of “New Deal 1940”, with higher…
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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.