Tag: historical posters
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Three images from the past welcoming in the new year in an ambivalent period caught between war and peace.
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Christmas in wartime: a German Christmas poster from around 1917 with an angelic fairy bearing presents and a sturdy soldier on the front.
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WPA poster promoting public hygiene: “Keep Clean” by Erik Hans Krause, ca. 1936–39.
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Poster for Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” in play form, presented in New York City by the WPA Federal Theater.
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Poster featuring a young woman in a dark blue (?) uniform at a switchboard, a mass of soldiers about to go into battle outside her window. Caption: “Back our girls over there / United War Work Campaign / Y.W.C.A.”
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I find this 1917 poster interesting because it seems to target urban, working-class immigrants. Besides the dress of the people waiting in line to lend Uncle Sam some money, there is the American flag held by the child, whose enthusiasm attracts the attention of the adults around her. Children, whether…
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Poster in orange, black, and gray tones: A stark drawing of a stricken young mother and her two children fill ost of the poster. Caption: “Hunger Knows No Armistice…”
