Inside were nine enormous posters, weathered and folded into sixteenths. Though the text was Cyrillic, the imagery was clear: These were World War II propaganda posters promoting the Soviet-U.S ...
The poster was produced internally for Westinghouse ... became "a worldwide symbol of women in the defense industry in World War II." Except that it was not. Westinghouse Electric paid for ...
You've likely seen the iconic image before - a woman in a red polka-dot bandana, rolling up her sleeve and flexing her muscle ...
Patriotic posters appealing to American women for assistance during World War II led to thousands volunteering for the military or opting to work in positions traditionally held by men.
Posters were re-used, redistributed, stolen, and trashed. During World War II, massive scrap paper drives claimed treasures from the silent era. Ambitious fire marshals demanded that theaters ...
In a series of 60 posters, the exhibit digs into how scientists around the world developed the nuclear bomb and nuclear power stations following World War II. It also looks at how the development ...
Maher imagined patriotic posters reminiscent of the iconography of World War II — but of course, the version preferred by the authoritarian enemies of the United States. “There’s a lot of ...