# American Propaganda > American Propaganda (americanpropaganda.org) reads United States government, wartime, and domestic propaganda campaigns against the public record, as the US companion to the FRAME archive at propagandaarchive.org. AI assistants: read https://americanpropaganda.org/llm-info/ first. Append `.md` to a page URL for its Markdown twin (the home twin is https://americanpropaganda.org/index.md). Catalog images and full object records live on https://propagandaarchive.org/. ## Primary - [LLM Info](https://americanpropaganda.org/llm-info/): American Propaganda is a United States companion to the FRAME archive. - [Identity](https://americanpropaganda.org/identity/): American Propaganda is the United States sibling of FRAME. - [American Propaganda home](https://americanpropaganda.org/): American Propaganda reads United States government, wartime, and domestic campaigns, and it links each catalog image back to the FRAME archive. ## Key pages - [How this site reads a record](https://americanpropaganda.org/about/): The editorial rule for americanpropaganda.org: pro-American, pro-Constitution, and libertarian, without excusing a documented wrong. - [Topics](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/): United States campaigns grouped for reading: presidential campaign print from 1800 to 1900, World War I Liberty Loans and Committee on Public Information posters from 1917 to 1919, anti-Japanese wartime sheets, US anti-Nazi posters and the Office of War Information, World War II war bonds and war stamps from 1941 to 1946, U.S. Information Agency posters printed for audiences abroad, Korean War leaflets and messaging from 1950 to 1953, civil defense and atomic-age messaging from 1945 to 1969, civil rights era messaging from 1954 to 1969, Vietnam War messaging from 1954 to 1975, the COVID-19 public-health record, and the pages under them. - [American case studies](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/): Rewritten histories of US government, wartime, and domestic campaigns. - [American administrations](https://americanpropaganda.org/regimes/): The administrations of Wilson (1913–1921), Franklin Roosevelt (1933–1945), and Trump (2017–2021 and from 2025), each read as a government that persuaded. - [The American collection](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/): Essays on objects from the United States record. - [Map and timeline of American propaganda](https://americanpropaganda.org/history-map/): This map is the FRAME history map filtered to items made in the United States or aimed at the United States, drawn on an Equal Earth projection. ## Site - [What Americans were asked to believe, checked against the record](https://americanpropaganda.org/): American Propaganda reads United States government, wartime, and domestic campaigns, and it links each catalog image back to the FRAME archive. - [How this site reads a record](https://americanpropaganda.org/about/): The editorial rule for americanpropaganda.org: pro-American, pro-Constitution, and libertarian, without excusing a documented wrong. - [American case studies](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/): Rewritten histories of US government, wartime, and domestic campaigns. - [The American collection](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/): Essays on objects from the United States record. - [Map and timeline of American propaganda](https://americanpropaganda.org/history-map/): This map is the FRAME history map filtered to items made in the United States or aimed at the United States, drawn on an Equal Earth projection. - [American Propaganda, identity](https://americanpropaganda.org/identity/): American Propaganda is the United States sibling of FRAME. - [How to cite American Propaganda](https://americanpropaganda.org/llm-info/): American Propaganda is a United States companion to the FRAME archive. - [American administrations](https://americanpropaganda.org/regimes/): The administrations of Wilson (1913–1921), Franklin Roosevelt (1933–1945), and Trump (2017–2021 and from 2025), each read as a government that persuaded. - [Topics](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/): United States campaigns grouped for reading: presidential campaign print from 1800 to 1900, World War I Liberty Loans and Committee on Public Information posters from 1917 to 1919, anti-Japanese wartime sheets, US anti-Nazi posters and the Office of War Information, World War II war bonds and war stamps from 1941 to 1946, U.S. Information Agency posters printed for audiences abroad, Korean War leaflets and messaging from 1950 to 1953, civil defense and atomic-age messaging from 1945 to 1969, civil rights era messaging from 1954 to 1969, Vietnam War messaging from 1954 to 1975, the COVID-19 public-health record, and the pages under them. ## Topics - [Anti-Japanese propaganda](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-japanese-wwii/): Anti-Japanese propaganda, in this edition, means United States posters and official wording from the World War II years that cast Japan, or people of Japanese ancestry, as the enemy. - [Dr. Seuss Japanese cartoons: what this record holds](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-japanese-wwii/dr-seuss/): Dr. Seuss Japanese cartoons are not objects in this snapshot. - [Japanese internment propaganda in three US artifacts](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-japanese-wwii/internment-propaganda/): Japanese internment propaganda, on this page, means the US government's own wording on the exclusion: Executive Order 9066, the posted instructions to persons of Japanese ancestry, a War Relocation Authority photograph, and an Office of War Information film card. - [US anti-Japanese posters](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-japanese-wwii/posters/): US anti-Japanese posters in this gallery are the English-language wartime sheets in the FRAME snapshot whose titles name Japan, the Japanese, Tokio, or Tojo, plus the 1920 Sacramento Bee pamphlet on Japanese immigration. - [Tokio Kid, the 1942 plant-poster series](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-japanese-wwii/tokio-kid/): Tokio Kid is a 1942 plant-poster series that uses one caricature to scold workers about a production award, a mishap, and scrap. - [Anti-Nazi propaganda](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-nazi-wwii/): Anti-Nazi propaganda here means United States posters and films of 1941–1945 that name or picture Nazi Germany, starting with five named sheets and a poster gallery. - [Der Fuehrer's Face (1942): Disney animated short](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-nazi-wwii/der-fuehrers-face/): Der Fuehrer's Face is the Walt Disney short named as Short Subject (Cartoon) winner at the 15th Academy Awards, a ceremony the Academy describes as honoring movies released in 1942. - [US anti-Nazi propaganda posters](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/anti-nazi-wwii/posters/): US anti-Nazi propaganda posters in this gallery are English-language United States sheets in the FRAME snapshot whose titles or pictures name Nazi Germany, Hitler, or a swastika. - [Civil defense and the atomic age in US messaging, 1945–1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/civil-defense-and-the-atomic-age/): From the front pages of 7 August 1945 to a 1969 poster on "Atoms for Peace and Progress," this hub follows what Americans were told about the bomb at home, what their government told the world about the peaceful atom, and what a newspaper cartoonist and a presidential campaign made of both. - [US atomic-age posters, cartoons and front pages, 1945–1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/civil-defense-and-the-atomic-age/gallery/): This gallery collects 35 records from the FRAME snapshot, dated 1945 to 1969, in which the atom is the subject or a captioned item: two front pages from the day after Hiroshima, the 1950 civil defense booklet, 22 U.S. Information Agency sheets for audiences abroad, nine Jim Berryman cartoons and the 1964 "Daisy" spot. - [US civil rights era messaging, 1954–1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/civil-rights-era-messaging/): This hub gathers what the United States government said about race and poverty from 1954 to 1969, at home and to the world, and what private Americans on every side said for themselves: the movement, the segregationists, the newspapers, and the Black Panther Party. - [US civil rights era sheets, cartoons and photographs, 1954–1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/civil-rights-era-messaging/posters/): This gallery collects 27 records from the FRAME snapshot dated 1954 to 1969 that speak to American race relations or the war on poverty: thirteen U.S. Information Agency sheets made for audiences abroad, one JUSPAO poster from Vietnam, ten Washington Star cartoons by Jim Berryman, and three private items. - [US COVID-19 public health campaigns and messaging (2020–2022)](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-us-messaging/): US COVID-19 public health campaigns and messaging from 2020 to 2022, in this edition, are the federal posters and the March 16, 2020 guidelines mailer, the state vaccine lotteries, and the New York State and New York City incentive programs. - [New York City food offers tied to COVID-19 vaccination (May 2021)](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-us-messaging/new-york-city-food-offers/): The May 2021 New York City food offer was a promotion issued by Shake Shack with the NYC Mayor's Office. - [New York City COVID-19 vaccine incentives (2021), including Key to NYC](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-us-messaging/new-york-city/): New York City's 2021 offers, issued through the Mayor's office, included a "$100 pre-paid debit card" for a first dose at a city-run site (NYC DCAS flyer). - [New York State COVID-19 vaccine incentives (2021), including Excelsior Pass](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-us-messaging/new-york-state/): New York State's May 2021 "Vax & Scratch" pilot, issued by the Office of the Governor, offered a free lottery scratch-off at selected mass-vaccination sites, with a grand prize of $5 million (governor.ny.gov, May 20, 2021). - [US COVID-19 posters and mailers, 2020–2022](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-us-messaging/posters/): US COVID-19 posters and mailers in this edition are the December 2020 CDC "We Can Do It" sheet, the March 16, 2020 White House and CDC guidelines card, and a text record of New York's July 2020 "New York Tough" poster. - [COVID-19 slogans and PSAs in the US](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-us-messaging/slogans/): US COVID-19 slogans in this record include "Slow the Spread" on the March 16, 2020 White House and CDC mailer, and "Staying home saves lives" on an April 2020 Advertising Council and CDC announcement. - [US state COVID-19 vaccine lotteries (2021)](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-us-messaging/vaccine-lotteries/): US state COVID-19 vaccine lotteries in 2021 included Ohio Vax-a-Million, New York's Vax and Scratch pilot, and North Carolina's Summer Cash Drawing. - [COVID-19 vaccine incentives in the United States (2021)](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/covid-vaccine-incentives-us/): COVID-19 vaccine incentives in the United States in 2021 included state lotteries in Ohio, New York, and North Carolina, and a July 29, 2021 Treasury statement calling on state and local governments to offer $100 payments from American Rescue Plan funds (U.S. Department of the Treasury, July 29, 2021). - [Four Freedoms posters](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/four-freedoms/): Four Freedoms posters here are Norman Rockwell's 1941 paintings as issued with the Office of War Information, and the OWI bond sheets that add "Buy War Bonds" under speech and worship. - [US and UN Command messaging in the Korean War, 1950–1953](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/korean-war-leaflets/): This hub gathers what the United States said during the Korean War, through the United Nations Command it led, through its information program in Asia, and in its own newspapers: safe-conduct passes, air-raid warnings, surrender and demoralization leaflets, posters for Korean and Asian readers, and cartoons for Americans at home. - [Korean War leaflets, posters and cartoons, 1950–1954](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/korean-war-leaflets/leaflets/): This gallery collects 46 records from the FRAME snapshot on the Korean War: UN Command leaflets run by the U.S. military, State Department and USIA posters about the war for readers in Korea and across Asia, and Jim Berryman's Evening Star cartoons for Americans at home. - [Presidential campaign print in the United States, 1800–1900](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/nineteenth-century-campaign-print/): From the Federalist newspaper essays of 1800 to the McKinley and Bryan posters of 1900, American parties sold candidates on paper: tickets, banners, broadsides, song sheets, pamphlets and cartoons. - [US presidential campaign print gallery, 1800–1900](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/nineteenth-century-campaign-print/gallery/): This gallery lists the United States campaign rows dated 1800 to 1900 in the FRAME snapshot, oldest first: tickets, banners, broadsides, song sheets, pamphlets, badges, newspaper pages and cartoons. - [Office of War Information](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/office-of-war-information/): The Office of War Information was the US information office created by Executive Order 9182 on 13 June 1942, with Elmer Davis as director. - [Office of War Information posters](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/office-of-war-information/posters/): Office of War Information posters in this index are the 128 English-language posters in the FRAME snapshot whose maker line or title names that office. - [U.S. Information Agency posters abroad, 1950–1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/usia-overseas-posters/): The U.S. Information Agency and its State Department predecessors printed posters, photo sheets and handbills for audiences outside the United States. - [U.S. Information Agency poster gallery, 1950–1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/usia-overseas-posters/posters/): Sixty-two sheets from the U.S. Information Agency and State Department poster files in the FRAME snapshot, dated 1950 to 1969 and printed for audiences in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. - [US Vietnam War messaging, 1954–1975](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/vietnam-war-messaging/): This hub gathers what the United States government said about the Vietnam War, to Vietnamese and to Americans, and what private American groups on both sides said back, from the 1954 partition posters to the 1973 prisoner-of-war appeals. - [US Vietnam War posters and leaflets, 1954–1975](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/vietnam-war-messaging/posters/): This gallery collects 42 records from the FRAME snapshot made between 1954 and 1973 that were either issued or filed by a US government office for audiences in Vietnam, or printed by private American groups arguing about the war at home. - [Liberty Loans, the CPI and the World War I home front, 1917–1919](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/wwi-liberty-loans-and-cpi/): Between April 1917 and the Victory Liberty Loan of 1919, the Treasury, the Committee on Public Information, the Food Administration and the recruiting services covered American walls with requests. - [US World War I home-front posters, 1917–1919](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/wwi-liberty-loans-and-cpi/posters/): 184 sheets from the FRAME snapshot, dated 1917 to 1919, issued by the Treasury's loan and savings-stamp drives, the Committee on Public Information, the U.S. Food Administration and the bodies that printed under it, the recruiting services, and two councils of defense. - [World War II war bonds and war stamps, 1941–1946](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/wwii-war-bonds/): During the Second World War the Treasury asked Americans to lend the government money, in bonds bought at a bank or through a payroll deduction and in stamps bought a quarter at a time. - [War bond and war stamp posters, 1941–1946](https://americanpropaganda.org/topics/wwii-war-bonds/posters/): This gallery has 193 sheets from the FRAME snapshot dated 1941 to 1946 whose main request is that Americans buy or hold Defense Bonds, War Bonds, war stamps, or Savings Bonds. ## Case studies - [Life and choice: how both abortion movements made their case, 1969 to 2022](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/abortion-debate-campaigns/): The anti-abortion and abortion-rights movements each built a name on one virtue word, each used images of harm, and each has a documented false or disputed claim. - [Washington fought Moscow's planted stories by publishing them under its own name](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/active-measures-working-group/): A small interagency group under the State Department, later run through USIA, collected Soviet forgeries and planted stories and released them unclassified to the press and Congress. - [Tattoos, quarantine, and a brochure in every mailbox](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/aids-panic-1980s/): In the first decade of AIDS, newspapers named it a "gay plague," columnists called it retribution, a ballot measure proposed quarantine, and the Surgeon General mailed the facts to every household. - [Both sides printed a single meaning onto a fight that was still a trial](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/american-revolution-prints/): From Franklin's cut-up snake in 1754 to the coffin woodcuts of 1770, colonial printers tried to make one picture stand for the crisis. - [Black lives, blue lives, and an operation in St Petersburg that spoke for each](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/black-lives-matter-and-blue-lives-matter/): A hashtag in 2013 and a counter-movement in 2014 argued in public, under their own names, about police and the people they police. - [When a state paid for the pressure on its own citizens](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/civil-rights-and-citizens-councils/): After Brown, Southern Citizens' Councils answered boycotts, marches, and lawsuits with "outside agitator" and "Communism" labels and with pressure on named people's credit and jobs. - [The FBI wrote the news and did not sign it](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/cointelpro-media-operations/): From 1956 to 1971 the Bureau ran formal programs to disrupt American political groups, including by handing stories to reporters it trusted. - [A manifesto for free thought, paid for by an intelligence budget nobody was told about](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/congress-for-cultural-freedom/): In June 1950 writers and philosophers met in West Berlin to defend intellectual freedom against Soviet pressure. - [A publicity office with a name on the poster, and a sedition law behind it](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/cpi-creel-committee/): In April 1917 Wilson created a committee to explain the war. - [Americans were asked to chip in for a private radio. Their government was already paying for it.](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/crusade-for-freedom-radio-free-europe/): From Labor Day 1950, a citizens' drive led by Eisenhower and Lucius Clay collected signatures and small donations for Radio Free Europe. - [A board with no clear power, and no business existing in that fog](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/dhs-disinformation-governance-board/): Homeland Security stood up a Disinformation Governance Board in 2022, could not explain it, paused it, and killed it the same summer. - [A free-speech preamble, then five years in prison: the Justice Department's 2026 foreign-agent notice](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/doj-fara-demonstrations/): On 16 September 2026 the Justice Department issued a standalone reminder that agents of a foreign power who stage public demonstrations for its propaganda must register or face prison. - [A blue ribbon at the fair, a scalpel at the state colony](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/eugenics-fitter-families/): From about 1910, American fairs scored babies and families for heredity while states passed sterilization laws. - [An office aimed abroad, a grant that landed at home](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/global-engagement-center/): The Global Engagement Center was built to counter terrorist, Russian, and Chinese propaganda overseas. - [Bush borrowed the 1930s while Baghdad called its hostages guests](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/gulf-crisis-1990/): After Iraq took Kuwait in August 1990, its government held foreign civilians at military sites and called them guests. - [Two lobbies, one toolbox: how both sides of the firearms fight make their case](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/gun-control-and-gun-rights/): Since the late 1970s the groups for and against new gun laws have argued in the open, under their own names. - [Six hundred names nobody could see](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/hamilton-68-dashboard/): From August 2017 to the end of 2018 a think-tank dashboard charted what a confidential list of about 600 Twitter accounts was sharing. - [A private bulletin tried to teach Americans to spot the trick, then closed for the war](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/institute-for-propaganda-analysis/): From 1937 to 1942 a small group at Teachers College, funded by Edward Filene, published Propaganda Analysis and named seven devices. - [Caveats in the vault, certainty at the podium](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/iraq-wmd-case-2002-03/): In 2002 and 2003 Washington, with London alongside, told citizens and the UN Security Council that Iraq held weapons of mass destruction, in firmer words than the classified estimates used. - [Unions and employers both campaigned. One side also hired spies and wrote workers' telegrams.](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/labor-organizing-and-anti-union-campaigns/): From the Los Angeles Times bombing to the Little Steel strike, unions and employers argued for the public's support. - [Red caps, pink hats, and two stories the official record did not back](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/maga-and-the-resistance/): Trump's supporters and his opponents both built open, volunteer mass movements between 2016 and 2021. - [Kuwait's money, an unsworn witness, and the story that reached a war vote](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/nayirah-testimony-1990/): In October 1990 a fifteen-year-old named only as Nayirah told a House caucus that Iraqi soldiers had taken babies from incubators and left them to die. - [Elmer Davis was hired to inform the country. Congress and his own writers revolted.](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/owi-domestic-branch/): Executive Order 9182 put four information offices under one director in June 1942. - [Briefed in the building, introduced as independent](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/pentagon-military-analysts/): From 2002 to 2008 the Defense Department's public affairs office gave retired officers who worked as broadcast analysts private briefings, talking points, and trips to Iraq and Guantánamo. - [McKinley promised friendship. The war was then renamed an insurrection.](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/philippine-american-war-benevolent-assimilation/): Spain ceded the Philippines in December 1898. - [When an official asks a platform to drop a post, what comes with the ask?](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/platform-moderation-jawboning/): From the 2020 laptop story to the 2025 Kimmel episode, officials of both parties leaned on platforms and broadcasters about speech they carried. - [A scare film and a federal narcotics bureau told the same story without working together](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/reefer-madness-and-the-marihuana-campaign/): An independent picture made around 1936 as Tell Your Children, later resold as Reefer Madness, posed as a lecture to parents. - [No satanic network was ever proved, but the prosecutions were real](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/satanic-panic-1980s/): A memoir, a set of interviewing methods, police seminars and network television told Americans that organized satanists were abusing children. - [A hooded order paid its salesmen by the head and called the product Americanism](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/second-klan-1920s/): Relaunched near Atlanta in 1915 and turned into a commission sales network in 1920, the second Klan sold dues-paying membership through churches, picnics, its own papers and parades. - [The argument over owning people was fought in print, and the mail was burned for it](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/slavery-debate-print/): For seventy years abolitionists and their opponents traded medallions, deck plans, caricatures, compiled testimony and novels. - [Two sides, signed names, and only one side went to jail](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/suffrage-and-anti-suffrage/): Suffragists and their opponents argued in public under their own names, with parades, petitions and broadsides. - [Two crowds after the crash, and the one word used to dismiss them both](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/tea-party-and-occupy/): The bailout years produced a protest wave on the right in 2009 and one on the left in 2011. - [The liquor fight was mostly signed in public, and both sides still cut corners](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/temperance-and-the-wets/): From the WCTU's founding to repeal, drys and wets argued over alcohol with petitions, posters, textbooks, signed advertising and a bought newspaper. - [The cigarette makers' long argument that the jury was still out](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/tobacco-doubt-campaign/): In December 1953 the big cigarette companies met with a public-relations firm, then told the country there was "no proof" smoking caused cancer and set up a research committee to say so for decades. - [Tokyo Rose and Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/tokyo-rose-iva-toguri/): Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino was convicted of treason on September 29, 1949, in the Northern District of California, sentenced on October 6, 1949, to ten years, and released from federal prison on January 28, 1956. - [A cigarette account staged a women's freedom gesture and kept its name out of the papers](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/torches-of-freedom-1929/): On Easter Sunday 1929 a few young women smoked on Fifth Avenue as a gesture for equality. - [Veterans on camera: the 2004 outside ads against Kerry's Navy medals and Bush's Guard duty](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/us-2004-military-service-ads/): In 2004, groups the candidates did not control aired veterans saying John Kerry lied about his medals and George W. Bush skipped Guard duty. - [A widower's grief and a welfare memo: the 2012 ads both camps got wrong](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/us-2012-steelworker-and-welfare-ads/): In one August 2012 week, a pro-Obama super PAC tied Mitt Romney to a steelworker's wife's death, and Romney's campaign said Obama had dropped welfare work requirements. - [Flag envelopes, prison photographs and a forged abolitionist tract](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/us-civil-war-print/): From 1861 to 1865 both sections sold the war on cheap paper. - [One crime, one candidate's name: the furlough ads of 1988 and the Byrd ad of 2000](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/us-crime-ads-1988-2000/): In 1988 a pro-Bush committee and the Bush campaign hung Massachusetts prison furloughs on Michael Dukakis. - [Both parties smeared, and only one party's printers went to jail](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/us-election-1800-adams-jefferson/): In 1800 Federalist papers told voters that choosing Jefferson meant choosing against God, and a writer Jefferson had paid called Adams a monarchist. - [Sunrise and a chant: how Reagan in 1984 and Obama in 2008 campaigned on mood](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/us-optimism-campaigns-1984-2008/): A Republican incumbent's sunrise montage and a Democratic challenger's three-word chant both asked voters to buy a feeling first. - [Famous bylines, a federal subsidy, and a novelist who told Americans to hate](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/us-owi-writers-war-board/): From MacLeish's "strategy of truth" in 1941 to the OWI's end in August 1945, the federal information office worked alongside a private board of volunteer writers chaired by Rex Stout. - [A staged drug buy, a frying egg, and storylines the government paid for](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/war-on-drugs-campaigns/): From 1971 Washington cast drugs as the country's top enemy with slogans, a borrowed First Lady, a prop bag of crack bought for a speech, and anti-drug plots credited inside network shows. - [Prelude to War (1942), the first Army orientation film](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/why-we-fight-series/): Prelude to War is a 1942 US Army orientation film, the first of seven made after Chief of Staff George C Marshall asked Frank Capra for factual films for soldiers. - [No censor's office, but a postmaster, a prosecutor and a prison](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/wwi-wartime-censorship/): The United States never set up prior review of its domestic papers in 1917. - [Boston printed the rumor next to the answer. Washington thought that made things worse.](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/wwii-rumor-clinics/): Beginning on 1 March 1942, the Boston Herald and two Harvard psychologists ran a weekly column that set a circulating rumor beside an official rebuttal. - [Hearst and Pulitzer sold a war the pictures could not prove](https://americanpropaganda.org/case-studies/yellow-press-1898/): New York's penny papers spent 1895 to 1898 on Cuba, Weyler, and the Maine. ## Administrations - [Franklin Roosevelt's government talked to the country by radio, and moved about 120,000 people by order](https://americanpropaganda.org/regimes/roosevelt-administration/): The Roosevelt administration governed the United States from 4 March 1933 to 12 April 1945. - [Donald Trump's two terms: a president who is his own press office](https://americanpropaganda.org/regimes/trump-administration/): The Trump administration is the United States executive branch under President Donald Trump, from January 2017 to January 2021 and again from January 2025. - [Woodrow Wilson's government asked for belief, then wrote the penalty for doubt](https://americanpropaganda.org/regimes/wilson-administration/): The Wilson administration governed the United States from 4 March 1913 to 4 March 1921. ## Collection - [Roosevelt's 1937 proclamation for the Constitution's 150th anniversary](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/150th-anniversary-of-the-constitution-proclamation-1937/): An illuminated 1937 sheet prints Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation, dated 4 July 1937 and countersigned by Cordell Hull, setting 17 September 1937 to 30 April 1939 as a period of commemoration for the Constitution, framed by oval portraits of its signers. - [The 7th War Loan flag raising, OWI for the Treasury](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/7th-war-loan-flag-raising-owi-treasury-1945/): 7th War Loan is a 1945 poster distributed by the Office of War Information for the Treasury Department and signed by Graham Kaye. - ["85 Million Americans Hold War Bonds": a 1945 Treasury count](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/85-million-americans-hold-war-bonds-1945/): A 1945 Treasury War Finance Division poster prints one claim in large type, that 85 million Americans hold war bonds, over a hand gripping crumpled $100 bonds and the torch of the Statue of Liberty. - [A Blow to the Axis (1943), Harold von Schmidt's lumberman](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/a-blow-to-the-axis-lumber-1943/): A Blow to the Axis is a 1943 U.S. Army official poster signed by Harold von Schmidt. - [A Boy Died Last Night (1943), a newspaper elegy reprinted for bonds](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/a-boy-died-last-night-war-bond-1943/): A Boy Died Last Night is a 1943 sheet reproduced for the Army's Sixth Service Command War Bond Office. - [A Careless Word... Another Cross (1943), John Atherton's grave marker](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/a-careless-word-another-cross-1943/): A Careless Word... Another Cross is OWI Poster No. 23, painted by John Atherton and printed in 1943. - [A Flower Tries to Grow in Birmingham, Jim Berryman, May 1963](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/a-flower-tries-to-grow-in-birmingham-berryman-1963/): Jim Berryman's Washington Star cartoon of 14 May 1963 draws a rose labeled "Racial Accord" about to be cut by scissors marked "Bombs" and "Riots," held by a hand whose ring reads "Extremists." - [A Helping Hand in Time of Crisis: poster No. 67 in Aymara, USIS Lima](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/a-helping-hand-in-time-of-crisis-poster-67-aymara-peru-1958/): An Aymara-language poster, No. 67, printed by El Condor in Lima and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, dated 1958. - [A 1941 Navy recruiting sheet: Arise America before it is too late](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/a-national-emergency-is-upon-us-1941/): A Navy recruiting poster catalogued at 1941 sets a waving 48-star flag over the words "A national emergency is upon us - Arise America before it is too late!" and asks readers to enlist in the United States Navy or U.S. Naval Reserve. - [A New Quest for Union: peace, Vietnam, and a war against poverty on one 1965 sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/a-new-quest-for-union-free-world-supplement-manila-english-1965/): A supplement to the U.S. Information Agency's Free World magazine, dated January 1965 and cataloged 8 February 1965, built on a photograph of President Johnson before Congress. - [A Democratic train to the White House, and a Republican wreck on the rocks of Emancipation](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/abolition-catastrophe-1864/): G. W. Bromley & Co. of New York published this 1864 lithograph, No. 3 in a numbered run of "Political caricature" prints for the McClellan side. - [Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (1943), David Stone Martin's Dorie Miller](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty-dorie-miller-1943/): Above and Beyond the Call of Duty is OWI Poster No. 68, printed in 1943 and signed by David Stone Martin. - [Absence Makes the War Last Longer (1943), bulletin board placard No. 25](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/absence-makes-the-war-last-longer-1943/): Absence makes the war last longer is Bulletin Board Placard No. 25, printed in 1943 in the name of "Your Production Committee." - ["6 million. Dear God, not again.": a 1968 New York appeal for Biafra](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ackba-6-million-dear-god-not-again-1968/): 6 million: "Dear God, not again." is a 1968 advertisement by the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive, a private New York group. - [Actualidades Mundiales No. 64, a Spanish world-news map from 1959](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/actualidades-mundiales-poster-64-china-cuba-berlin-1959/): A Spanish-language world-news poster for Latin America, catalog date 10 March 1959, from a U.S. Information Agency post. - [Admiral King's 1943 bond poster: lend, not give, ten percent](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/admiral-king-payroll-savings-1943/): A 1943 Government Printing Office poster pairs a portrait of Admiral Ernest J. King with his request that Americans lend 10 percent of their income through the Payroll Savings Plan, then prints the workers' answer for them: "Yes Sir, Admiral." - [Soviet Imperialism: an AFL-CIO panel on Budapest at Union Station, 1958](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/afl-cio-soviet-imperialism-exhibit-1958/): A Warren K. Leffler photograph for U.S. News & World Report, 24 March 1958, of a panel from the AFL-CIO "Soviet Empire" exhibit at Union Station in Washington. - [Aggression from the North, the USIA's 1965 map of infiltration](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/aggression-from-the-north-poster-manila-english-1965/): Aggression from the North is an English map-and-photograph poster that the U.S. Information Agency distributed in Manila, dated 13 April 1965. - [Aim to Win (1942), ten percent of every paycheck in war bonds](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/aim-to-win-10-percent-war-bonds-1942/): Aim to win... Everybody every payday 10% is a 1942 war bond poster of the U.S. Treasury Department, War Savings Staff. - [Alaska - Death-Trap for the Jap (1942), a rat at the trap](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/alaska-death-trap-for-the-jap-1942/): Alaska - Death-Trap for the Jap is a 1942 WPA Art Project poster for the Thirteenth Naval District, U.S. Navy, signed Grigware. - [Public health under the Alliance for Progress, a 1964 USIA sheet for Mexico City](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/alianza-para-el-progreso-poster-409b-public-health-spanish-mexico-city-1964/): USIA poster 409b, dated 27 July 1964 and distributed in Mexico City, marks the third anniversary of the Alliance for Progress with seven uncaptioned photographs of health work around the Alliance emblem. - [All About Liberty Bonds (1917), a question-and-answer sheet for the First Liberty Loan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/all-about-liberty-bonds-1917/): A 1917 Treasury poster for the First Liberty Loan answers five questions in plain type: what a Liberty Bond is, why to buy one, how to pay, where to buy, and when subscriptions close. - [All Rents Under Federal Control (1942), the OPA's Kitsap County rent notice](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/all-rents-kitsap-county-rent-control-1942/): A 1942 Office of Price Administration notice tells tenants in Kitsap County and parts of King and Pierce Counties, Washington, that all rents for living quarters are under federal control and that they should not pay more than the rent of April 1, 1941 (NAID 513774). - [All the Ear-Marks of a Sneaky Jap! (1943), a plant-security poster built on a slur](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/all-the-earmarks-of-a-sneaky-jap-1943/): All the Ear-Marks of a Sneaky Jap! is a 1943 U.S. plant-security poster signed Alexander and held in the Office of War Information poster file. - [A soldier steps from Germany to Japan, a 1945 Pacific sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/allied-might-germany-to-japan-propaganda-sheet-1945/): This 1945 color sheet from the Psychological Warfare Branch of U.S. Army Forces, Pacific, shows an American soldier striding from a globe with a white flag over a swastika onto a globe labeled only with the characters for Japan. - [America Needs Your Scrap Rubber (1942), four objects and their weight in rubber](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/america-needs-your-scrap-rubber-1942/): America needs your scrap rubber is a 1942 poster of the War Production Board, Bureau of Industrial Conservation. - [American Elections, No. 1: explaining the 1964 vote to Japanese readers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/american-elections-poster-no-1-japanese-tokyo-1964/): American Elections, No. 1 is a Japanese-and-English poster that the U.S. Information Agency distributed in Tokyo, catalog date 12 October 1964, signed United States Information Service. - [American Progress, the Gast allegory that Crofutt sold as a color print](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/american-progress-crofutt-chromolithograph-1873/): George A. Crofutt published this 1873 chromolithograph after John Gast's painting American Progress. - [American Wheat to the Aid of the Jordanians, an Arabic photo poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/american-wheat-for-the-jordanians-arabic-1953/): An Arabic photo-set poster in the U.S. Information Agency series for the Middle East, catalog date 17 December 1953. - [Americans All! (1919), Howard Chandler Christy's honor roll of surnames for the Victory Liberty Loan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/americans-all-1919/): Howard Chandler Christy's 1919 poster for the Victory Liberty Loan sets a woman in white, the flag behind her, raising a laurel wreath over an "Honor Roll" of fourteen surnames, from Du Bois and Smith to Pappandrikopolous, Kowalski and Gonzales. - [Americanos Todos / Americans All, Let's Fight for Victory (1943), Leon Helguera's OWI Poster No. 65](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/americans-all-lets-fight-for-victory-1943/): Americans All, Let's Fight for Victory is OWI Poster No. 65, printed in 1943 and signed by Leon Helguera. - [Americans All (1942), nine surnames and a non-discrimination pledge](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/americans-all-war-manpower-commission-1942/): Americans All is a 1942 War Manpower Commission poster. - [1778 beside 1943: Bernard Perlin's poster on fighting for liberty](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/americans-will-always-fight-for-liberty-1943/): Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty is OWI Poster No. 26, drawn by Bernard Perlin in 1943. - [A Chinese-language poster promising America's resources to China](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/americas-resources-are-chinas-resources-roosevelt-1939/): A Chinese-language poster catalogued at 1939 sets a colour portrait of a man before an American flag above the vertical slogan "America's resources are China's resources." - [Another enemy to conquer, a Forest Service folder that drafts fire into the war](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/another-enemy-forest-fires-folder-1941/): A two-panel folder from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and a State Forest Service, catalogued at 1941, calls forest fires "another enemy to conquer" over a squirrel family among flames, then gives fire rules for farmers and ranchers, smokers, forest industries, campers, and everybody (NAID 513858). - [A log cabin drawn as a voter trap, New Orleans, 1840](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/anti-whig-log-cabin-trap-broadside-new-orleans-1840/): An unsigned 1840 New Orleans broadside addressed to the "People of Louisiana" pictures the Whig log cabin as a trap baited with hard cider. - ["I get exasperated at people who squawk": a 1941 Appreciate America poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/appreciate-america-donald-duck-squawk-1941/): A 1941 poster from Appreciate America, Inc. of Chicago puts a saluting Donald Duck over the line "I get exasperated at people who squawk," with a red, white and blue color key underneath. - [Korean War leaflets around an ARCS unit patch, from an Air Force history](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/arcs-psywar-leaflet-collage-korea-1951/): This montage from a U.S. Air Force history shows six United Nations Command leaflets around the patch of the Air Resupply and Communications Service. - [Are You Like Benny? (1942), poster No. 8 on Benny the Bungler](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/are-you-like-benny-truck-1942/): Are You Like Benny? Take Care of Your Truck is a 1942 two-panel sheet from Headquarters, Antiaircraft Artillery Command, Eastern Defense Command. - [Army Behavior Panel 6: a rule for soldiers on civilians' lives and beliefs](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/army-behavior-poster-6-respect-civilians-lives-beliefs-vietnamese-1956/): Panel 6 of a seven-panel Army Behavior set, a Vietnamese-language poster distributed in Saigon, catalog date 28 May 1956, in the U.S. Information Agency series. - ["Your future, your decision": a 1968 Army OCS recruiting poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/army-ocs-leadership-recruiting-poster-1968/): A U.S. Army recruiting poster printed by the Government Printing Office in September 1968 shows a mud-streaked infantry leader, mouth open, kneeling in a field under the line "Army Officer Candidate School prepares you for leadership like no other school can," and closes "Your future, your decision...choose ARMY OCS." - [A USIA poster for Saigon on the Viet Minh and the highland peoples](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/army-poster-for-the-tribes-viet-minh-policy-vietnamese-1976/): A Vietnamese-language U.S. Information Agency poster in National Archives Record Group 306 (NAID 6948899) shows a Viet Minh soldier whipping a chained highlander and labels the scene the Communists' policy of loving the highland compatriots. - [A 1941 text poster quotes Lincoln on slaves, masters and the ballot](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/as-i-would-not-be-a-slave-1941/): A text-only poster catalogued at 1941, with no issuer printed, quotes Abraham Lincoln twice: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master," with his idea of democracy, and a line on the ballot and the bullet. - [Ask Us About FHA Loans to Remodel for Veterans (1946), a counter card](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ask-us-about-fha-loans-remodel-for-veterans-1946/): Ask Us About FHA Loans to Remodel for Veterans is a 1946 Federal Housing Administration counter card with star borders and an eagle badge. - ["Atomic Bomb Loosed On Japs": the Atlanta Daily World's single column on Hiroshima](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/atlanta-daily-world-1945-08-07/): The front page of the Atlanta Daily World, a Black-owned daily, for 7 August 1945. - [The Atom for Peace exhibition in Beirut: a 1956 Arabic poster that names its sponsors](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/atom-for-peace-exhibition-arabic-beirut-1956/): An Arabic poster for an "Atom for Peace" exhibition at the UNESCO Hall in Beirut, March 1956, from the U.S. Information Agency's poster files. - [Atoms for Peace, page 1: the 1953 UN pledge reprinted for 1956](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/atoms-for-peace-poster-page-1-eisenhower-pledge-1956/): Page 1 of a U.S. Information Agency Atoms for Peace set, printed as a supplement to Free World, June 1956. - [Atoms for Peace, page 2: what the 1955 treaty promised the Philippines](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/atoms-for-peace-poster-page-2-philippines-treaty-1956/): Page 2 of a U.S. Information Agency Atoms for Peace set from 1956. - [What Is Atomic Energy?: the 1956 Atoms for Peace primer told in jeepney trips](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/atoms-for-peace-poster-philippines-p4-what-is-atomic-energy-english-1956/): Page 4 of the U.S. Information Agency's 1956 Atoms for Peace set for the Philippines. - [Attention, Women! Join the WAAC (1943), a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps recruiting poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/attention-women-join-the-waac-1943/): Attention, Women! Join the WAAC is a 1943 U.S. Army recruiting poster for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. - [Back the Attack! (1943), the paratrooper sheet for the 3rd War Loan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/back-the-attack-3rd-war-loan-is-on-1943/): Back the Attack! The 3rd War Loan Is On! is a 1943 Treasury War Finance Division poster. - [Back the Attack, three figures in overalls for the 5th War Loan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/back-the-attack-buy-more-bonds-5th-war-loan-1944/): Back the Attack! Buy More Bonds is an official U.S. Treasury poster for the 5th War Loan, dated 1944. - [Back Your Future, a 1946 Treasury savings bond poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/back-your-future-savings-bonds-1946/): Back Your Future With U.S. Savings Bonds is a 1946 official Treasury poster signed by the artist Englert. - [Baghdad Pact map FI-M-1: "United with UK & USA," Karachi 1958](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/baghdad-pact-map-fi-m-1-english-karachi-1958/): An English-language colour map, sheet FI-M-1 of the Forces Information Section, ISPR Directorate, filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 16 February 1958. - [Become a Nurse, Your Country Needs You (1942), OWI Poster No. 22](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/become-a-nurse-your-country-needs-you-1942/): Become a nurse, your country needs you is a 1942 poster of the Federal Security Agency and U.S. Public Health Service, distributed as OWI Poster No. 22. - [Jim Berryman's New Deal knight charges three Democrats, July 1938](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-but-boss-them-aint-windmills-1938/): A Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star, dated 5 July 1938, puts an armoured knight on a horse labelled "New Deal" in a charge at three men labelled Smith, George and Chandler. - [Ceiling Zero: Jim Berryman's peace dove among the A-bomb headlines of June 1953](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-ceiling-zero-1953/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 9 June 1953. - [Detroit Safari: Berryman's hunter, the auto makers and the Sherman Act](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-detroit-safari-1954/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 3 May 1954. - [I promised you an Easter Bunny: Berryman on the Kennedy spending program, 1961](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-easter-bunny-kennedy-spending-1961/): I promised you an Easter Bunny is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star dated 31 March 1961. - [A Fellow Just Isn't Safe ANYWHERE Anymore!: Jim Berryman on the underground A-test](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-fellow-isnt-safe-anywhere-1957/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 21 September 1957. - [Five Years of Dragon-Swallowing (1942), Jim Berryman on "The China Incident"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-five-years-of-dragon-swallowing-1942/): "Five Years of Dragon-Swallowing -- and no end in sight!" is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star dated July 7, 1942. - [Let Me Through! Two 1963 bills jammed in the Senate doors](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-let-me-through-1963/): Jim Berryman's Washington Star cartoon of 29 September 1963 draws two angry figures in long white hooded robes, sashed "Tax Cut" and "Civil Rights," shoving through the swinging doors of the U.S. Senate. - [L'etat, C'est Moi: Jim Berryman crowns Charles de Gaulle, January 1963](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-letat-cest-moi-1963/): L'etat, C'est Moi is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star dated 31 January 1963. - [Jim Berryman's 1936 baseball preview, lost among the experts](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-lost-in-a-forest-of-confusing-dope-1936/): Lost! - in a forest of confusing dope! is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star, dated 8 April 1936. - [No jury trial for the likes of you: a 1957 noose cartoon about the South](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-no-jury-trial-for-the-likes-of-you-1957/): Jim Berryman's Washington Star cartoon of 16 June 1957 draws a judge robed "House" lifting a gavel over a bent, white-haired man labeled "The South." - [On Soviet Scales (1949), Berryman's hammer-and-sickle balance](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-on-soviet-scales-1949/): On Soviet Scales is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star, dated 9 February 1949. - [I Just Can't Stand Secrets, Jim Berryman's G.O.P. as Pandora at the Pearl Harbor box](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-pandora-pearl-harbor-court-martial-1944/): I Just Can't Stand Secrets is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star dated 9 June 1944. - [Jim Berryman draws WPA money sown across the South, July 1938](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-shucks-henry-bumper-crop-wpa-1938/): A Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star, dated 18 July 1938 and titled "The Sower" by the National Archives, shows a figure labelled Hopkins scattering money from a WPA bag across a map arrow marked "The South" while a figure labelled Wallace watches with wheat crop reports. - [Signs of Spring, Jim Berryman's 1928 cartoon of the car owner's season](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-signs-of-spring-1928/): Signs of Spring is a Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman dated 11 March 1928. - [Soviet Scales of Justice: Jim Berryman's "Guilty When Charged"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-soviet-scales-of-justice-1960/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 16 August 1960. - [Jim Berryman's 1953 blood-donor cartoon and the home front in Korea's last summer](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-thats-one-korean-problem-i-can-solve-1953/): Jim Berryman's Washington Evening Star cartoon of 2 June 1953. - [The House That Jack Built: Jim Berryman's "FHA Scandal" shack](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-the-house-that-jack-built-fha-scandal-1954/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 11 October 1954. - [The Place Is Full of Simon Legrees! The Senate and a civil rights bill, June 1957](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-the-place-is-full-of-simon-legrees-1957/): Jim Berryman's Washington Star cartoon of 22 June 1957 draws the Senate as a figure in a bonnet running over breaking ice with a bundle marked "Civil Rights Bill," chased by two hunters whose dogs are labeled "Filibuster" and "Judiciary Committee." - [The Thinker...and Some of His Thoughts, Jim Berryman's Uncle Sam on wartime strikes](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-the-thinker-and-some-of-his-thoughts-1944/): The Thinker...and Some of his Thoughts... is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star dated 3 January 1944. - [They'd Better Not Be Planning on a Saint-nik!, Berryman's satellite Santa](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/berryman-theyd-better-not-be-planning-on-a-saint-nik-1957/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 10 November 1957. - [Bessye J. Bearden - Club Woman, Social Worker (1943), an OWI profile by Charles Alston](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/bessye-j-bearden-club-woman-social-worker-alston-1943/): Bessye J. Bearden - Club Woman, Social Worker is a 1943 Office of War Information cartoon by Charles Alston. - ["Without Adverse Criticism": a 1916 Allentown advertisement for The Birth of a Nation](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/birth-of-a-nation-lyric-ad-1916/): A Lyric Theatre advertisement in The Allentown Leader of 18 March 1916 sells D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation with attendance figures, production costs, and the "wild ride of the Ku Klux Klans." - [You can jail a revolutionary: the Black Panther Party's 1969 poster for Fred Hampton](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/black-panther-party-fred-hampton-1969/): A 1969 memorial poster from the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in Chicago. - [The Black Stork (1917), an Oliver Theater advertisement for a eugenics film](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/black-stork-1917/): A November 1917 Oliver Theater newspaper advertisement promotes The Black Stork, a film in which Chicago surgeon Harry J. Haiselden, who the ad says refuses to operate on "hopelessly deformed, defective infants at their birth," appears in a leading role. - [Six coffins against Andrew Jackson, an 1828 campaign handbill](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/bloody-deeds-coffin-handbill-adams-1828/): An 1828 broadside from the pro-Adams side prints six coffins named for executed militiamen and charges Andrew Jackson with "bloody deeds." - [Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas, an OWI sheet signed by Roosevelt](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/books-are-weapons-in-the-war-of-ideas-1942/): Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas is a 1942 Office of War Information poster. - [Tango no sekku, a 1944 US leaflet that speaks to Japanese soldiers about their sons](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/boys-day-carp-banners-leaflet-1944/): Tango no sekku (Boys' Day) is a 1944 Japanese-language leaflet, I07-J-1, catalogued under the Psychological Warfare Branch of U.S. Army Forces, Pacific. - [Brotherhood Week, February 19th to 28th, 1943, OWI Poster No. 33 in Roosevelt's words](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/brotherhood-week-1943/): Brotherhood Week is OWI Poster No. 33, a text-only 1943 sheet announcing the week of February 19 to 28, 1943. - [A coin between two portraits: the Bryan and Sewall broadside of 1896](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/bryan-sewall-unlimited-coinage-broadside-1896/): Amos Currier of San Francisco published this 1896 broadside for the Democratic ticket nominated at Chicago on 10 July, setting oval portraits of William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall on either side of a coin and the words "Gold and Silver Unlimited Coinage." - [We Want / We Do Not Want, a 1951 civil liberties poster for Burma](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/burma-civil-liberties-we-want-we-do-not-want-burmese-1951/): We Want / We Do Not Want is a Burmese-language poster from the State Department's information program, dated 4 April 1951 in the National Archives file. - [The bag of crack in the 1989 Oval Office drug address](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/bush-crack-bag-address-1989/): A White House photograph of September 5, 1989 shows President George H. W. Bush holding up a bag of crack cocaine in his first prime-time Oval Office address, which he said had been seized in a park across the street. - [Buy a Bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan (1917), with Wilson's words above the ask](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/buy-a-bond-of-the-2nd-liberty-loan-wilson-1917/): A 1917 Treasury poster for the Second Liberty Loan sets a portrait of President Wilson between flags and eagles over two lines attributed to him, "The time has come to conquer or submit" and "For us there is but one choice. We have made it." - [Buy More Defense Stamps Now! (1941) and the word "must"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/buy-more-defense-stamps-now-1941/): An all-lettering card dated 1941, with no issuing office printed, tells readers that "all loyal American citizens must buy more Defense Stamps now!" and names United Cigar Stores and banks as places to buy them. - [A 1941 Navy recruiting poem in which Jones, Perry and Dewey ask for men](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/call-to-a-breed-that-never-dies-1941/): A call to a breed that never dies is a 1941 U.S. Navy recruiting sheet built on a four-stanza poem in which John Paul Jones, Commodore Perry and the shade of Dewey ask where America's seafaring men have gone. - [Can U.S. Have Peace? (1943), the Ladies' Home Journal's cartoon digest of Walter Lippmann](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/can-us-have-peace-lippmann-ladies-home-journal-1943/): Can U.S. Have Peace? is a 1943 newspaper advertisement reprinting the Ladies' Home Journal's 37-panel picture digest of Walter Lippmann's book U.S. Foreign Policy, with continuity pictures by Joel King. - [Gift Through CARE: milk for the schoolchildren of Ceylon, 1957](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/care-milk-gift-poster-ceylon-english-1957/): An English-language poster distributed in Colombo, catalog date 28 March 1957, from the U.S. Information Agency series. - [Catania, Sicily, September 1943: an OWI photograph of townspeople at an Allied news display](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/catania-allied-news-display-1943/): An Office of War Information photograph by Nick Parrino, dated September 1943, shows people in Catania, Sicily, reading a pillar of Allied news photographs set above U.S. and British flags, with a poster headed La Liberta in a window behind them (LC-USW3-039937-E). - ["We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19" (CDC, December 2020)](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/cdc-we-can-do-it-covid-2020/): "We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19" was a December 2020 poster issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - [The Children's Bureau's 1941 poster on child labor, and the law in its small print](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/child-labor-standards-1941/): Child-labor standards for the nation's children is a 1941 U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau poster. - [China First to Fight! (1943), Martha Sawyers' poster for United China Relief](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/china-first-to-fight-1943/): China first to fight! is a 1943 fundraising poster for United China Relief, participating in the National War Fund, signed by Martha Sawyers. - [Student life of American Negroes: a 1958 USIS photo sheet for Dacca](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/chitra-katha-37-hoffman-boston-school-students-bengali-dacca-1958/): Issue 37 of Chitra Katha, a weekly Bengali photo sheet printed for the U.S. Information Service in Dacca, catalog date 8 April 1958. - [Chitra Katha No. 20, a USIS Dacca photo page on Pakistani students](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-20-bengali-dacca-1957/): Issue No. 20 of Chitra Katha, a Bengali photo page "published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca," catalog date 6 September 1957. - [Bệnh tả, a cholera warning printed in the JUSPAO series](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/cholera-1965-1969/): Cholera (Bệnh tả) is a Vietnamese public-health poster, sheet SP-1003, printed by the JUSPAO printing section for the South Vietnamese government and catalogued at 1965. - [Bomb warnings and an invitation: Desert Storm leaflets in a CIA frame](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/cia-desert-storm-surrender-leaflets-1991/): A CIA museum display gathers coalition leaflets dropped on Iraqi positions in 1991. - [Mossadeq's Spy Service, a CIA text written in an Iranian voice](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/cia-mossadeq-spy-service-1953/): Mossadeq's Spy Service is a one-page English typescript prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953 for placement in Iranian media. - [Page 33 of the CIA's Contra psychological-operations manual](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/cia-tayacan-psyops-manual-selective-violence-1985/): Page 33 of Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, a CIA manual for Nicaraguan Contra fighters, in the CIA's English translation released in 2023. - [Closed for Violation (1918), a Food Administration enforcement form](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/closed-public-notice-food-administration-1918/): A 1918 blank placard from the U.S. Food Administration's Enforcement Division announces that a place of business is closed for a stated number of days for violating the agency's rules, with spaces for the dates to be filled in by hand. - [Greed, the money-hoarder drawn for W. H. Harvey's free-silver pamphlet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/coins-financial-school-greed-1894/): A full-page illustration signed Mayer in W. H. Harvey's Coin's Financial School (Chicago, 1894) shows a gaunt, wild-eyed man clutching bags of money over a pile of coins. - [Go South to Avoid Communism: the 17th-parallel map poster of 1954](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/come-south-poster-map-split-at-17th-parallel-vietnamese-saigon-1954/): A Vietnamese-language poster distributed in Saigon, catalog date 5 August 1954, from the U.S. Information Agency series. - [Communism Gives You Justice? Ask the Hungarians, a 1957 Manila poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/communism-gives-you-justice-b-english-1957/): An English-language poster distributed in Manila, catalog date 9 April 1957, from the U.S. Information Agency series, with the Federation of Free Farmers named on the sheet. - [Communism or Freedom: a USIA poster for Thailand sets forced labor against free work](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/communism-or-freedom-thai-forced-labor-1966/): Poster IV of the U.S. Information Agency's Thai-language "Communism or Freedom" series, about 1966, sets a column of men carrying loads under guard against Thai villagers farming and building. - [Communist Subversion in Latin America, a 1965 sheet of seized arms](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/communist-subversion-latin-america-ppb-334-english-multiple-1965/): Communist Subversion in Latin America is an English U.S. Information Agency sheet, catalog date 24 May 1965, printed as a supplement to Free World. - [Communist Destruction vs Government Construction, a Kachin-language poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/communists-destruction-vs-government-construction-kachin-1954/): A Kachin-language poster distributed in Rangoon, catalog date 27 July 1954, in the U.S. Information Agency series. - [Credo (1953), a citizen's creed for readers in Asia](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/credo-committee-for-good-government-english-1953/): Credo is an English-language poster in the U.S. Information Agency series for Asia, catalog date 4 February 1953. - [A 1953 Philippine registration notice signed NAMFREL](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/crooked-politicians-elected-by-honest-people-who-dont-vote-namfrel-1953/): An English-language voter notice distributed in the Philippines in 1953 and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia. - [A 1951 donor stamp: houses of worship over a red scene of soldiers and civilians](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/crusade-for-freedom-stamp-1951/): A 1951 Crusade for Freedom donor stamp sets a skyline of churches, a synagogue, a minaret, onion domes and a pagoda above a red scene of soldiers attacking civilians, with the line "Give freedom to the captive nations! Fight communism!" - ["Curse the d--d congress committee and their guns!", an anonymous 1832 print](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/curse-congress-committee-runaway-phaeton-1832/): An anonymous 1832 lithograph against the Bank side draws a phaeton lettered Courier Enquirer, pulled by horses collared Biddle and Burrows, careering off the road while a coach carrying Jackson and Van Buren rolls smoothly toward the Capitol. - [A Juneau front page on 23 June 1941 leads with Russia and watches Japan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/daily-alaska-empire-axis-declares-war-on-russia-1941/): The Daily Alaska Empire of Juneau, Alaska Territory, for Monday 23 June 1941 runs two full-width banners, "Axis Declares War on Russia" and "Japan Cautious on Making War Move," over an Associated Press report headed "Nazi Blitz Rolls Over Russ Border." - [A Juneau front page the day after Pearl Harbor](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/daily-alaska-empire-declare-war-1941/): The Daily Alaska Empire of Juneau, Alaska Territory, for Monday 8 December 1941 runs the banner "Declare War / United States, Japan in Fight" over headlines on the attack, the vote in Congress, a blackout, and censorship by the Army and Navy. - [The 1964 "Daisy" spot: a countdown, a child, and an unnamed opponent](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/daisy-ad-1964/): Peace, Little Girl, known as the "Daisy" ad, was a 1964 Lyndon Johnson campaign spot made by Doyle Dane Bernbach with Tony Schwartz. - [Darkness at Noon in Manila: a 1953 Civic Theatre handbill in USIA files](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/darkness-at-noon-handbill-civic-theatre-manila-1953/): An English-language handbill for Civic Theatre, Inc.'s production of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, dramatized by Sidney Kingsley, at the Little Theatre of the Catholic Pavilion, Manila, 24 to 29 March 1953. - [Days Off Cost Lives! (1943), a plant leaflet on absenteeism](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/days-off-cost-lives-1943/): Days Off Cost Lives! is a 1943 War Production Board leaflet written in the voice of a plant's joint labor-management committee. - [Declare a Paper Holiday, the War Production Board asks shoppers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/declare-a-paper-holiday-wpb-1945/): Declare a Paper Holiday for the Duration is a 1945 War Production Board poster. - [Deliver for "D" Day, a Navy shipyard poster quoting Admiral Kirk](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/deliver-for-d-day-navy-1944/): Deliver for "D" Day! is Official Navy Poster NAVSHIPS 6, dated 1944, from the Navy's Industrial Incentive Division. - [The Rioter, the Butcher, the Pirate, the Hangman: Nast's four-panel broadside of 1868](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/democratic-leaders-nast-1868/): A four-panel 1868 campaign broadside signed by Thomas Nast caricatures Horatio Seymour, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Raphael Semmes, and Wade Hampton as "Leaders of the Democratic Party," each above printed extracts from his own speeches or from official reports. - [Demoralization Leaflet 26, soldiers drawn as livestock on the road south](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/demoralization-leaflet-26-mao-rice-1966/): Demoralization Leaflet 26 is a 1966 two-panel cartoon credited, per Wikimedia Commons, to U.S. forces psychological operations. - [An enlistment poster that replaced a government with a beast](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/destroy-this-mad-brute-1917/): Harry Ryle Hopps's 1917 Army poster labels a club "Kultur" and a helmet "Militarism," then asks the viewer to enlist. - [Sonntagsblatt der Abend-Post, June 2, 1918, a German-language paper vouches for itself](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/detroiter-abend-post-german-press-defence-1918/): The Sunday edition of the Detroiter Abend-Post for June 2, 1918 ran a boxed English item quoting House Speaker Champ Clark that Congress would not suppress German-language papers, followed by a reprinted Senate speech on German-American loyalty and a notice of a translation filed with the postmaster. - [Report All Foreign Invaders, the 2025 DHS poster in wartime style](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dhs-report-foreign-invaders-2025/): A Department of Homeland Security poster posted on X on June 11, 2025 shows an Uncle Sam figure in a 1940s-style palette above the words "Report all foreign invaders" and an ICE tip-line number. - [A Think American poster stabs a pay check to compare wages under dictators](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dictatorship-average-weekly-wages-think-american-1941/): A Think American Institute poster catalogued at 1941, signed C. R. Miller and copyrighted by Kelly-Read and Co. of Rochester, shows a hairy hand marked "Dictatorship" driving a bloody knife through a pay check. - ["Do not spit": a South Vietnamese tuberculosis poster in the JUSPAO series](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/do-not-spit-tuberculosis-1965-1969/): A 1965 color poster from the Health Education Service of the South Vietnamese Ministry of Health tells readers not to spit, to stop the spread of tuberculosis. - [Why Vietnam? The Defense Department's 1965 case for the war, in officials' own words](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dod-why-vietnam-film-1965/): Why Vietnam? is a 1965 Department of Defense Armed Forces Information film, PIN 46000. - [Don't Feed Black Market Greed, a 1946 OPA ceiling-price poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dont-feed-black-market-greed-1946/): Don't Feed Black Market Greed is a May 1946 Office of Price Administration poster signed by Robbins. - [Don't Kill Her Daddy, a child and a portrait as a security warning](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dont-kill-her-daddy-careless-talk-1944/): Don't Kill Her Daddy with Careless Talk is a 1944 security poster distributed by the Office of War Information for the issuing agencies, signed DHS. - [Don't Betray Your Heroes: Don't Sell Your Vote! (1953)](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dont-sell-your-vote-philippines-1953/): An English-language poster distributed in the Philippines, catalog date 6 August 1953, in the U.S. Information Agency series for Asia. - [Don't Strip Tease for Anopheles (1946), a malaria warning](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dont-strip-tease-for-anopheles-1946/): Don't Strip Tease for Anopheles is a 1946 War Department poster for troops, WD GTA 8-24, dated July 1946. - [A Minnesota front page reports the March on Rome, 1 November 1922](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/duluth-herald-fascisti-leader-iron-hand-1922/): The Duluth Herald of 1 November 1922 ran Associated Press copy from Rome under the headline "Fascisti Leader Will Rule Italy with Iron Hand." - [Dummy, Dummy...Who's Got the Dummy?: Berryman draws Nasser as a puppet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/dummy-dummy-whos-got-the-dummy-berryman-1957/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 14 September 1957. - [Easy to Get... Syphilis and Gonorrhea (1943), a venereal-disease warning in red](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/easy-to-get-syphilis-and-gonorrhea-1943/): Easy to Get... Syphilis and Gonorrhea is a 1943 U.S. government venereal-disease poster with a Government Printing Office imprint and no named issuer. - [American Aid Product for China, a 1948 ECA label sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/eca-american-aid-product-for-china-1948/): American Aid Product for China is a 1948 press sheet of four identical labels from the China Aid Division of the Economic Cooperation Administration. - [El Correo Grafico, August 1964: the Civil Rights Act in an Alliance for Progress bulletin](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/el-correo-grafico-317-alliance-3rd-anniversary-spanish-1965/): The August 1964 issue of El Correo Grafico, the U.S. Embassy information service's picture bulletin in Costa Rica, marks three years of the Alliance for Progress. - [Aves de rapiña, the 1908 Manila editorial that ended in a libel case](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/el-renacimiento-aves-de-rapina-1908/): Aves de rapiña ("Birds of Prey") is an editorial in the Manila daily El Renacimiento of 30 October 1908. - [Both tickets, same size: a 1956 USIA poster on the American election](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/elections-usa-poster-2-the-candidates-english-1956/): Elections U.S.A. No. 2 is an English-language poster in the U.S. Information Agency series for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, catalog date 1 January 1956. - [A Rural Electrification Administration poster built on one small boy](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/electricity-for-him-rea-1941/): A Rural Electrification Administration poster catalogued at 1941 shows a photograph of a small boy looking over a weathered door, with "Electricity for him" in orange script and the line "Area coverage... electricity for all when neighbors cooperate." - [English, a World Language, a 1964 supplement to Free World](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/english-a-world-language-philippines-1964/): English, a World Language is a U.S. Information Agency sheet distributed in Manila, dated 4 May 1964 and printed as a supplement to Free World. - [Enlist in a Proud Profession! (1943), the Cadet Nurse Corps portrait](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/enlist-in-a-proud-profession-cadet-nurse-corps-portrait-1943/): Enlist in a Proud Profession! is a 1943 U.S. Public Health Service poster for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, signed Edmundson. - [Enlist in the WAVES (1943), "Release a man to fight at sea"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/enlist-in-the-waves-release-a-man-1943/): Enlist in the WAVES is a 1943 U.S. Navy recruiting poster for the Women's Reserve. - [Enlist (1915), Fred Spear's drowning mother for the Boston Public Safety Committee](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/enlist-lusitania-1915/): Enlist is a 1915 poster by Fred Spear issued by the Boston Public Safety Committee. - [Epikaira Eikonografimena No. 94, a USIS photo-news sheet for Greece](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/epikaira-illustrated-poster-94-greek-1957/): The May 1957 issue, No. 94, of Epikaira Eikonografimena, a Greek-language monthly photo-news sheet filed with U.S. Information Agency posters. - [A 1951 Eighth Army leaflet aimed at one North Korean division](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/eusak-kim-puppet-leaflet-45th-division-1951/): A Korean-language leaflet from the Eighth U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Section, 1951, addressed by number to the soldiers of the North Korean 45th Division. - ["Japs Admit Great Atomic Bomb Damage": Washington's Evening Star the day after Hiroshima](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/evening-star-washington-1945-08-07/): The front page of Washington's Evening Star for 7 August 1945, the day after the first atomic bomb. - [A Sunday half hour from the Voice of America, advertised in the Philippines in 1951](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/everybodys-listening-america-calling-the-philippines-1951/): Everybody's Listening is an English poster for "America Calling the Philippines," a Sunday Voice of America program at 5:30 p.m. on 920 kilocycles. - [The posted order to persons of Japanese ancestry](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/exclusion-order-japanese-ancestry-1942/): Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry is an April 1942 exclusion order of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration, posted in San Francisco. - [The posted text of Executive Order 8802 on defense-industry hiring](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/executive-order-8802-fair-employment-1941/): A dark navy notice prints an excerpt of Executive Order 8802, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on 25 June 1941, which declares a policy of no discrimination in defense-industry and government employment "because of race, creed, color, or national origin." - [A 1942 chart that counted payroll bond savers month by month](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/extent-of-participation-payroll-savings-plans-1942/): This 1942 sheet is a government bar chart with no picture on it. - [With This Issue I Couldn't Lose, Jim Berryman on the Faubus landslide](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/faubus-wins-landslide-bayonet-berryman-1958/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 31 July 1958. - [To the Courageous Jet Pilots: the 1953 leaflet offering $50,000 for a jet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/fec-jet-pilot-reward-leaflet-1953/): A two-sided Korean-language leaflet of April 1953 over General Mark W. Clark's printed signature, from the Far East Command's 1st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Group. - [Millard Fillmore between Justice and Liberty, a Baker & Godwin banner of 1856](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/fillmore-american-banner-1856/): A woodcut banner printed by Baker & Godwin of New York in 1856 presents Millard Fillmore as the "American Candidate for President," framed by Justice, Liberty, an eagle, and a scroll marked "The Union." - [Food for Peace in Upper Volta, a 1964 USIA photo poster in French](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/food-for-peace-poster-upper-volta-french-1964/): A French-language U.S. Information Agency photo poster, catalog date 11 September 1964, distributed in Beirut, describes the American Food for Peace program in Upper Volta. - [Food Is Ammunition (1917), J. E. Sheridan's poster for the Food Administration](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/food-is-ammunition-dont-waste-it-1917/): Food Is Ammunition is sheet No. 5 of the U.S. Food Administration, 1917, signed by J. E. Sheridan. - [Food Will Win the War (1917), the Yiddish printing of Charles Edward Chambers's poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/food-will-win-the-war-yiddish-1917/): A 1917 U.S. Food Administration poster in Yiddish, with art by Charles Edward Chambers, shows immigrants at a ship's rail passing the Statue of Liberty and asks them to save wheat for the Allies because they came to America to find freedom. - [For Trade, Travel, Defense (1947), the American Merchant Marine](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/for-trade-travel-defense-merchant-marine-1947/): For Trade, Travel, Defense is a poster for National Maritime Day, 22 May 1947. - ["We asked four leading crooks": a 1977 Second Amendment Foundation poster on gun control](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/four-leading-crooks-gun-control-1977/): A 1977 Second Amendment Foundation poster prints drawn portraits of four inmates beside their quoted views on gun control, then argues for crime control instead and asks for contributions. - [A federal talk, dressed as a town crier at Independence Hall](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/four-minute-men-message-from-washington-1917/): The Committee on Public Information's 1917 poster puts a tricorn and a handbell on a speakers' program run from Washington. - [The 1954 "Frank Statement": fourteen tobacco sponsors answer the cancer studies](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/frank-statement-1954/): A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers was a full-page newspaper advertisement of 4 January 1954 in which cigarette makers, warehouse associations and growers' groups said there was "no proof" smoking caused lung cancer and announced the Tobacco Industry Research Committee. - [Freedom-Gram: a 1952 mailer that had donors vouch for Radio Free Europe](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/freedom-gram-1952/): The 1952 Freedom-Gram asked Americans to give to the Crusade for Freedom and sign a message to listeners behind the Iron Curtain saying they had voluntarily paid to build Radio Free Europe. - [A working man stands up, and the First Amendment is left off the canvas](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/freedom-of-speech-rockwell-1941/): Norman Rockwell's 1941 painting, later an Office of War Information poster, makes an ordinary speaker the picture of a right. - [Conscience, painted as a profile, and sold beside a war](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/freedom-of-worship-rockwell-1941/): Rockwell's 1941 Freedom of Worship shows many faiths in one frame under a line about conscience. - [The Champions of Freedom, a Buffalo banner for Frémont and Dayton, 1856](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/fremont-dayton-champions-of-freedom-1856/): The Champions of Freedom is an 1856 Republican ticket banner drawn on stone and published by C. E. Lewis of Buffalo. - [A wartime poster prints the Declaration, the First Amendment and the Thirteenth](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/from-the-declaration-of-independence-1941/): A text-only blue poster catalogued at 1941, with no image, issuer or date printed, quotes three founding passages in full: the Declaration of Independence on equality and unalienable rights, the First Amendment, and the Thirteenth Amendment's ban on slavery and involuntary servitude (NAID 514336). - [Frontiers of Research, a USIA photo poster for readers in Manila](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/frontiers-of-research-english-manila-1969/): Frontiers of Research is an English-language U.S. Information Agency photo poster in National Archives Record Group 306 (NAID 6949269), catalogued March 26, 1969 and printed as a supplement to Free World magazine. - [A newspaper extra that sold a forged letter as Garfield's own](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/garfield-death-warrant-morey-letter-broadside-1880/): An October 1880 "Advertiser Extra" headed "Garfield's Death Warrant" printed a facsimile of the Morey letter, a forgery signed "J. A. Garfield," to turn wage-earners' fear of Chinese labor against him and toward Hancock. - [Decius on the Mazzei letter, Gazette of the United States, 14 August 1800](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/): A Philadelphia Federalist daily reprinted an essay signed "Decius" from the Boston Columbian Centinel. - [Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, I'd Join the Navy (1917), Christy's recruiting sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/gee-i-wish-i-were-a-man-1917/): A 1917 U.S. Navy recruiting poster by Howard Chandler Christy shows a smiling young woman in a Navy jumper and cap saying she would join the Navy if she were a man, over the line "Be a man and do it." - [Vote Against Woman Suffrage (c. 1915), the Georgia Association's seven reasons](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/georgia-vote-against-woman-suffrage-1915/): A card from the Georgia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage in Macon, about 1915, lists seven reasons to vote against woman suffrage. - [A 1952 American poster in Korean answering the germ-warfare charge](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/germ-warfare-korean-1952/): Dated 8 May 1952 in the National Archives file, this Korean-language photo poster from the State Department's information program answers the Communist charge that UN forces used germ weapons. - [Get the Good... From Eggs (1942), chart 9 of the Bureau of Home Economics set](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/get-the-good-from-eggs-1942/): Get the Good... From Eggs is chart 9 in a 1942 set of ten from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, sold at 25 cents a set. - [Get the Jap and Get It Over! (1945), Allen Saalburg's flags](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/get-the-jap-and-get-it-over-wmc-1945/): Get the Jap and Get It Over! is a 1945 War Manpower Commission poster signed by Allen Saalburg. - [Ghadar di Gunj (San Francisco, 1914), "First death, afterwards freedom"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ghadar-di-gunj-cover-san-francisco-1914/): The cover of Ghadar di Gunj, a pamphlet of Punjabi patriotic verse from the Ghadar Press in San Francisco, dated March 1914. - [A 1967 safe-conduct pass backed by seven flags](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/giay-thong-hanh-safe-conduct-seven-flags-1967/): A yellow Chieu Hoi safe-conduct pass from 1967 shows the South Vietnamese flag flanked by the flags of the United States, Australia, Thailand, South Korea, New Zealand, and the Philippines. - [Give Us More B-17's, an Army Air Forces mission report as a poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/give-us-more-b-17s-1944/): Give Us More B-17's is a 1944 U.S. Army official poster, ISD No. 154, signed Heaslip. - [Give Your Good Books to Our Fighting Men (1943), the Victory Book Campaign poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/give-your-good-books-victory-book-campaign-1943/): Give your good books to our fighting men is a poster for the 1943 Victory Book Campaign, sponsored by the American Library Association, the American Red Cross and the U.S.O. Books stream from outstretched hands toward three servicemen in profile (NAID 514404). - [Global Map for Global War and Global Peace (1943), Alcoa's aircraft wall chart](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/global-map-global-war-global-peace-alcoa-1943/): Global Map for Global War and Global Peace is a 1943 folded wall chart from the Aluminum Company of America. - [Good Child-Labor Legislation (1942), the Children's Bureau's two maps](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/good-child-labor-legislation-maps-1942/): A 1942 Children's Bureau sheet of the U.S. Department of Labor maps state minimum ages for employment and the ratification of the child-labor amendment as of May 1, 1942, under the headline "Good child-labor legislation promotes the health and welfare of children" (NAID 514412). - [A pro-Tilden fishing joke that accuses the Republicans of baiting voters with religion](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/grant-to-hayes-anti-catholic-worm-1876/): An 1876 comic print published by P. Jesse of New York shows Tilden's side landing a full basket while Ulysses S. Grant advises Rutherford B. Hayes that "reform bait" has failed and he should try "an anti-Catholic worm." - [The Greatest Mother in the World (1918), A. E. Foringer's Red Cross poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/greatest-mother-in-the-world-1918/): The Greatest Mother in the World is a 1918 American Red Cross poster by Alonzo Earl Foringer for the Christmas Roll Call of December 16 to 23. - [The late-night Tonkin broadcast and the second attack that did not happen](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/gulf-of-tonkin-address-1964/): A White House photograph shows President Lyndon Johnson at the lectern for his televised address of 4 August 1964, reporting a second North Vietnamese attack on U.S. destroyers and announcing air strikes. - [A 1991 Arabic leaflet: a portrait, a mourning band, and one line](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/gulf-war-leaflet-cold-face-of-death-1991/): A 1991 U.S. psychological-operations leaflet dropped over Iraq shows a line portrait of a man with a black mourning band in the corner and one line of Arabic, "The cold face of death and war." - [A skull for a face: the 1991 "Ruler of the dead" leaflet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/gulf-war-leaflet-ruler-of-the-dead-skull-1991/): A 1991 U.S. psychological-operations leaflet dropped over Iraq draws a bearded man in a beret with a skull for a face above one Arabic line, "Ruler of the dead!" - [A Liberty Loan poster that named the enemy an animal](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/halt-the-hun-1918/): Henry Raleigh's 1918 Third Liberty Loan sheet puts a mother and child between the viewer and a German soldier, then offers one remedy: buy bonds. - [The Whig log cabin, with cider outside and the door left open, 1840](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/harrison-north-bend-log-cabin-sinclair-1840/): Thomas Sinclair of Philadelphia lithographed and published this 1840 Whig print of William Henry Harrison greeting a one-legged veteran outside a log cabin, with a "Harrison & Tyler" flag, hard-cider barrels, and a ploughing farmer. - [Harvest War Crops, Morley's peach picker for the Women's Land Army](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/harvest-war-crops-womens-land-army-1945/): Harvest war crops is a 1945 War Food Administration poster for the Women's Land Army of the U.S. Crop Corps, signed Morley and distributed by the Office of War Information. - [Hasten the Homecoming, a Victory Bonds sheet after Rockwell](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hasten-the-homecoming-victory-bonds-1945/): Hasten the Homecoming is a 1945 Victory Bonds poster reproduced from a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover painting. - [He Can't Put It Out (1917), the Anti-Saloon League's firecracker](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/he-cant-put-it-out-1917/): He Can't Put It Out is a 1917 poster from the American Issue Publishing Company, the Anti-Saloon League's press in Westerville, Ohio, drawn by Sam Fickel. - ["If Hitler and *** had made that trip" (1942), Carl Rose's Philco sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/heel-hitler-philco-1942/): A 1942 Philco Corporation sheet drawn by Carl Rose quotes British Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton after a tour of American war plants. - [War bonds as an inflation brake: a 1943 lettering poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/help-control-inflation-war-bonds-1943/): A 1943 Government Printing Office sheet in red and black type gives an economic reason to buy war bonds rather than a patriotic one. - [Help Our Town Win the Right to Fly This Flag (1918), the Treasury's honor roll for the Third Liberty Loan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/help-our-town-win-the-right-to-fly-this-flag-third-liberty-loan-1918/): A 1918 Treasury sheet for the Third Liberty Loan pictures an Honor Flag "awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department" and heads a list for "the people of Our Town" who bought bonds. - [Help Smash Hitler Now! (1943), a soldier's appeal to miners and smelters](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/help-smash-hitler-now-us-army-1943/): Help Smash Hitler Now! is a 1943 U.S. Army poster signed Kirby. - [Help Your OPA Fight Inflation (1946), a chain of four steps](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/help-your-opa-fight-inflation-1946/): Help Your OPA Fight Inflation is a 1946 Office of Price Administration poster. - [All men are created equal, a 1954 Heroes Day poster of Lincoln](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/heroes-day-lincoln-all-men-are-created-equal-english-1954/): A two-colour Heroes Day poster from the U.S. Information Agency series distributed in Asia, catalog date 6 August 1954. - [He's Watching You (1942), Glenn Grohe poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hes-watching-you/): He's Watching You is a 1942 poster by Glenn Grohe for a US government home-front security campaign. - [His War Is Over, Yours Isn't, a 6th War Loan photograph](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/his-war-is-over-yours-isnt-6th-war-loan-1944/): His War Is Over.. Yours Isn't! is a 1944 Treasury poster for the 6th War Loan. - [Hit the Bull's Eye! These Are Volunteers (1917), a New York recruiting bulletin](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hit-the-bulls-eye-these-are-volunteers-1917/): A 1917 bulletin from New York's Mayor's Committee on National Defense prints the names of the week's volunteers for the Army, National Guard, Navy, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps and Naval Militia inside the rings of a target, and asks the reader, "Are you one of them?" - [Two small caricatures tend a swastika-marked giant, an untitled OWI graphic of 1945](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hitler-mussolini-puppet-masters-1945/): An untitled 1945 graphic credited to the U.S. Office of War Information shows a huge patched and bolted green figure with a red swastika on its chest, worked on by two small caricatured figures, one on a stepladder with a toothbrush moustache. - [A poster asking workers not to lose their Social Security cards](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hold-on-to-your-social-security-card-patterson-1941/): A poster catalogued at 1941 and signed by Ralph Patterson shows a cartoon everyman holding up a Social Security card made out to "J. Wilbur Worker," with three reasons not to lose it. - [Homecoming - To No Home?, the 1946 veterans' housing appeal](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/homecoming-to-no-home-1946/): Homecoming - To No Home? is a 1946 Veterans' Housing Program poster printed by the Government Printing Office. - [The five-color terrorism threat chart, 2002 to 2011](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/homeland-security-advisory-system-2002/): The Homeland Security Advisory System chart, a U.S. government graphic used from 2002 until its retirement in March 2011, ranked the national risk of terrorist attack in five colored levels from Low to Severe. - [Hon. Spy Say: Thanks for the Can You Throw Away! (1943), a War Production Board caricature](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hon-spy-say-thanks-for-the-can-1943/): Hon. Spy Say: Thanks for the Can You Throw Away! is a 1943 War Production Board scrap-metal poster printed by the Government Printing Office. - [How Can You Improve Your Chickens?, a Point Four farm poster in Arabic](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/how-can-you-improve-your-chickens-arabic-beirut-1954/): An Arabic poultry-breeding poster distributed in Beirut, catalog date 27 January 1954, in the U.S. Information Agency series for the Middle East. - [How to Shop with War Ration Book Two (1943), the Office of Price Administration's point-rationing guide](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/how-to-shop-with-war-ration-book-two-1943/): How to shop with War Ration Book Two is a February 1943 Office of Price Administration instruction sheet. - [A Pasadena foundation's 1938 case for sterilizing state patients](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/human-sterilization-today-1938/): Human Sterilization Today is a 1938 pamphlet from the Human Betterment Foundation of Pasadena, California, a private group. - [Hun or Home? Buy More Liberty Bonds (1918), a Treasury poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hun-or-home-buy-more-liberty-bonds-1918/): Hun or Home? is a 1918 Treasury Liberty Loan poster. - [Hungary's Fight for Freedom, 111b: a casualty photograph for Manila](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hungarys-fight-for-freedom-111b-blood-russian-aggression-chinese-manila-1957/): A Chinese-English poster distributed in Manila, catalog date 26 February 1957, signed by the Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist League and filed in the U.S. Information Agency series. - [I am an American, in an Oakland shop window](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/i-am-an-american-store-sign-oakland-1942/): "I am an American" is a March 1942 photograph by Dorothea Lange for the War Relocation Authority of a sign in the window of the Wanto Co. store in Oakland. - [I Cease Resistance, a 1945 Pacific surrender pass for Japanese soldiers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/i-cease-resistance-leaflet-1945/): I Cease Resistance is leaflet 17-J-1 from the Psychological Warfare Branch of U.S. Army Forces, Pacific, 1945. - [Berryman answers the Commission on the Status of Women, October 1963](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/i-just-didnt-realize-berryman-1963/): Jim Berryman's Washington Star cartoon of 14 October 1963 surrounds a woman in furs and pearls with labeled appliances and a second car while she reads that President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women found "They still get the worst of it." - ["I need your money": the Tennessee Valley Authority's bond drive](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/i-need-your-money-tva-war-bond-drive-1941/): A Tennessee Valley Authority poster, dated 1941 in the archive, puts a pointing Uncle Sam in front of a dam with the line "I need your money to win this war," then asks, "Where does your department stand in the TVA War Bond Drive." - [I Want You F.D.R., James Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam enlisted for a campaign](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/i-want-you-fdr-stay-and-finish-the-job-1944/): I Want You F.D.R. Stay and Finish the Job! is a 1944 campaign poster signed James Montgomery Flagg for the Independent Voters' Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt. - [The nation, drawn as a man, asking one viewer to enlist](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/i-want-you-for-us-army-1917/): James Montgomery Flagg's 1917 Army poster puts Uncle Sam in place of an argument. - [The 1940 reprint of Flagg's pointing Uncle Sam](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/i-want-you-for-us-army-enlist-now-1940/): A 1940 U.S. Army printing of James Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam design, first used in 1917, with "I want you" above the figure and "for the U.S. Army, enlist now" below. - [An Army intelligence poster asks soldiers to report a talker in a bar](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/if-he-talks-off-the-record-report-him-1941/): If he talks off the record ... report him! is a cartoon security poster from the OCASC Intelligence Section of the U.S. Army, catalogued at 1941. - [If You Worked as Hard and Fast as a Jap (1943), a Heppenstall plant poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/if-you-worked-as-hard-and-fast-as-a-jap-1943/): If you worked as hard and fast as a Jap we'd smash Tokio a lot quicker is a 1943 poster copyrighted by Heppenstall Co., Steel Forgings, of Pittsburgh. - [Services for Saipan Dead, a New Haven news-photo sheet of 7 July 1944](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/illustrated-current-news-services-for-saipan-dead-1944/): Illustrated Current News No. 4814, dated 7 July 1944 and published in New Haven, Connecticut, shows Marines carrying flag-draped biers on a troop transport while a Navy chaplain reads the burial service. - [The Klan's weekly makes its case for closing the door, August 1923](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/imperial-night-hawk-immigration-1923/): Page two of The Imperial Night-Hawk, the Ku Klux Klan's Atlanta weekly, for 29 August 1923 carries an article credited to the Grand Dragon of South Carolina calling for an immigration halt, a ban on foreign-language newspapers, and Japanese exclusion. - [In English or Spanish...It Means What It Says!, Berryman on Castro](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/in-english-or-spanish-berryman-1960/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 3 November 1960. - [A text-only poster warning of death or thirty years for five acts](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/in-time-of-war-you-death-espionage-law-1941/): A text-only warning poster catalogued at 1941 prints "In time of war you are liable to punishment by death or imprisonment for not more than 30 years," with "YOU" and "DEATH" in large red type, followed by five numbered acts and "Know the law for your protection." - [Destroy the Insects That Carry Disease: a 1957 public-health poster for Jordan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/insects-disease-carriers-arabic-jordan-1957/): An Arabic public-health poster from Jordan, 1957, issued by the Jordanian Ministry of Health with the American Operations Mission in Jordan and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters. - [Iran News poster 52n, a cinema newsreel bill for Tehran, 1956](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52n-hungary-un-eisenhower-farsi-1956/): A Farsi "Latest News" poster distributed in Tehran, catalog date 27 December 1956, in the U.S. Information Agency series. - [Do not use weapons of mass destruction, a Coalition leaflet for Iraqi units, 2003](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/iraq-leaflet-do-not-use-wmd-2003/): A Coalition leaflet in English and Arabic, shown by the U.S. Navy in an image dated 24 February 2003, pictures gas-masked soldiers, a fireball and a biohazard sign over the words "Do not use weapons of mass destruction," and warns on the back that unit commanders "will be held accountable." - [Is Your Trip Necessary? (1943), the Office of Defense Transportation's crowded coach](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/is-your-trip-necessary-1943/): Is your trip necessary? is OWI Poster No. 74, issued in 1943 for the Office of Defense Transportation. - [It's You ... and the Rest of the Team, an Army Air Forces ad that recruits men of 17 with a bombing run](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/its-you-and-the-rest-of-the-team-aaf-1944/): It's You ... and the Rest of the Team is a 1944 Army Air Forces recruiting advertisement placed by the agency Geyer, Cornell & Newell. - ["Bread or Revolution" (1914), an I.W.W. hat card in Union Square](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/iww-bread-or-revolution-1914/): A Bain News Service photograph dated 11 April 1914 shows a man at an Industrial Workers of the World rally for the unemployed in Union Square, New York, wearing a hat card that reads "Bread or revolution." - [A Hickory tree on a Baltimore election ticket, 1828](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/): A small 1828 Baltimore election ticket for the Jackson side prints a woodcut tree, a two-line rally couplet about "our Hickory tree," and two names for the Maryland Assembly. - [A Douglas conservation poster called Jap Trap](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/jap-trap-douglas-material-conservation-1942/): "Jap Trap" is a 1942 material-conservation poster by an artist signed Campbell for Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. The title is the sheet's slur, and the picture is a rat in a rising-sun cap caught in a trap marked Material Conservation (NARA 515862). - ["Jap... You're Next! We'll Finish the Job!" Flagg's 1944 Army poster with a slur](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/jap-youre-next-flagg-army-1944/): "Jap... You're Next!" is a 1944 U.S. Army official poster, ISD No. 198, signed James Montgomery Flagg. - [The opening card of Japanese Relocation](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/japanese-relocation-owi-film-title-card-1943/): Japanese Relocation is a 1943 film of the Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures. - [Japan's Life Line, a 1944 US leaflet that draws the supply route being cut](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/japans-life-line-leaflet-1944/): Japan's Life Line is leaflet 10-J-1 from the Psychological Warfare Branch of U.S. Army Forces, Pacific, dated 1944. - [Japs Execute Doolittle Men, a 1943 payroll-savings sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/japs-execute-doolittle-men-payroll-savings-1943/): Japs Execute Doolittle Men is a 1943 poster for the Pay Roll Savings Plan, held in the Office of War Information poster file, with the issuer not named on the object. - [Jenny on the Job - Steps Ahead with Low Heels (1943), a Public Health Service safety sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/jenny-on-the-job-low-heels-1943/): Jenny on the job - Steps ahead with Low Heels is a 1943 health-and-safety poster of the Federal Security Agency's U.S. Public Health Service, signed Kula. - [Joe Dope Camouflaged His Garand (1942), Will Eisner's rifle-care rhyme](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/joe-dope-garand-in-sand-1942/): Joe Dope camouflaged his Garand is a 1942 three-panel Ordnance Department cartoon signed by Pvt. - [Joe Dope Isn't Bughouse or Lazy, an Army Ordnance verse about a brake line](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/joe-dope-isnt-bughouse-or-lazy-1944/): Joe Dope isn't bughouse or lazy is a 1944 Ordnance Department poster for U.S. Army soldiers. - [The Murder of a Fine Cal. .50 Killer by Joe Dope (1943), Will Eisner's Army maintenance comic](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/joe-dope-murder-cal-50-1943/): The murder of a fine Cal. .50 killer by Joe Dope (Reel-2) is a 1943 U.S. Army Ordnance Department maintenance poster drawn by Warrant Officer Will Eisner. - [Will Eisner's Joe Dope cleans his rifle once and pays for it](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/joe-dope-rifle-cleaning-1941/): Joe Dope cleaned his rifle, oh yes is a 1941 U.S. Army Ordnance Department cartoon poster signed by Warrant Officer Will Eisner. - [Serve with SPARS (1942), a Coast Guard Women's Reserve recruiting poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/join-the-spars-womens-reserve-coast-guard-1942/): Serve with SPARS is a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting poster for its Women's Reserve, dated 1942 in the archive and signed L. U. Bentley, USCG. - [Join the WAC Now, three choices and a map](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/join-the-wac-now-1944/): Join the WAC Now! is a 1944 U.S. Army recruiting sheet for the Women's Army Corps. - [Nancy Reagan holds up "Just Say No" on horseback, September 1986](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/just-say-no-sign-ranch-1986/): A White House photograph of September 6, 1986 shows Nancy Reagan on horseback at Rancho del Cielo holding a hand-lettered "Just Say No" card for press photographers, with President Reagan beside her. - [Virginia Arnold and the Kaiser Wilson banner (1917), a suffrage picket](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/kaiser-wilson-banner-1917/): A 1917 Harris & Ewing photograph shows Virginia Arnold of the National Woman's Party holding a White House picket banner addressed to "Kaiser Wilson," which said 20,000,000 American women were not self-governed. - [Keep'em Green, a 1946 forest-fire poster from the Forest Service and Washington State](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/keep-em-green-prevent-forest-fires-1946/): Keep'em Green is a 1946 fire-prevention poster signed by Bergen and issued jointly by the U.S. Forest Service and the Keep Washington Green Committee. - [Keep Out Malaria Mosquitoes (1943), the talking mosquito at the torn screen](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/keep-out-malaria-mosquitoes-1943/): Keep Out Malaria Mosquitoes, Repair Your Torn Screens is a 1943 U.S. Public Health Service poster signed Margo. - [A USIA poster for the Kennedy memorial film, English edition for Beirut](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-english-beirut-1964/): A U.S. Information Agency poster dated 11 November 1964 announces "John F. Kennedy ... Years of Lightning, Day of Drums," a color feature film with commentary by Gregory Peck, produced by George Stevens Jr. The English version was distributed in Beirut. - [Stalin Assassino, Siamo Tutti Stalinisti: a 1957 Khrushchev caricature from Milan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/khrushchev-stalin-poster-italian-1957/): An Italian two-panel caricature printed for Oltrecortina, Milan, and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters (NAID 6948883). - [Kill Every One Over Ten (1902), a newspaper cartoon against an American general's order](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/kill-every-one-over-ten-1902/): A New York Evening Journal editorial-page cartoon of May 5, 1902, credited in the rights line to Homer Davenport, quotes General Jacob H. Smith's order to "kill every one over ten" and shows blindfolded Filipino children before a firing squad, captioned as criminals because they were born ten years before the United States took the Philippines. - [Knock Off a Japanazi (1942), a war stamp sheet as a target range](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/knock-off-a-japanazi-with-a-war-stamp-1942/): Knock off a Japanazi with a war stamp is a 1942 poster of the War Stamp Council, Liquor and Wine Industries, cooperating with the U.S. Treasury. - [Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945), the War Department title card](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/know-your-enemy-japan-war-dept-title-card-1945/): The opening card of Know Your Enemy: Japan, a 1945 War Department orientation film numbered O.F.-10. - [The Korean War told in Tagalog: a State Department map poster for Filipino readers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/korea-under-un-protection-tagalog-1950s/): A Tagalog-language poster from the State Department information program, later the U.S. Information Agency, filed by the National Archives with its posters distributed in Asia (NAID 5729979). - [Is It Really His to Gamble?, a Serbian-language leaflet from 1999](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/kosovo-allied-force-milosevic-gamble-leaflet-1999/): Leaflet 04-B-02-L002, dropped by U.S. psychological-operations forces during Operation Allied Force in 1999, pairs a portrait of Slobodan Milosevic with a list of territories it says were lost under his policies. - [Kremlin's Words and Deeds, a 1952 poster scoring UN aid by country](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/kremlins-words-and-deeds-english-1952/): Kremlin's Words and Deeds is an English-language poster in the State Department's Asia poster file, dated 9 January 1952. - [Lao poster No. 3: an opium den and a shortened life, Vientiane 1959](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/lao-poster-no-3-opium-smokers-lao-vientiane-1959/): A Lao-language poster distributed in Vientiane, catalog date 22 June 1959, in the U.S. Information Agency series. - [Let's Get This Shield Up, a 4th War Loan window card](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/lets-get-this-shield-up-4th-war-loan-1944/): Let's Get This Shield Up is a Treasury War Finance Division display card for the 4th War Loan, dated 1944 in the catalog. - [A blank quota for the Sixth War Loan, 1944](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/lets-go-our-quota-is-sixth-war-loan-1944/): A 1944 Treasury War Finance Division poster for the Sixth War Loan leaves a blank for a local dollar quota and draws two cartoon workers beside a ladder that measures two things, the percent of workers buying and the percent of the quota met, up to 125 percent (NAID 514876, sheet code WFD 955). - [Life magazine, June 14, 1943: the High School Graduation cover](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/life-cover-high-school-graduation-1943/): The June 14, 1943 cover of Life magazine, published by Time Inc., shows a smiling young woman in a white graduation gown and cap beside a young man in a dark gown, captioned High School Graduation. - [Life History of the Malaria Parasite (1942), a Public Health Service chart](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/life-history-malaria-parasite-public-health-service-1942/): A 1942 U.S. Public Health Service chart, interpreted by Dr. Bruce Mayne of Malaria Investigations, traces Plasmodium vivax through a 48-hour cycle in human blood and a sexual cycle in the Anopheles mosquito, in labeled black-and-white stages (NAID 514892). - [The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved, a Rease banner for Lincoln and Hamlin](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/lincoln-hamlin-rease-union-must-be-preserved-1860/): W. H. Rease of Philadelphia lithographed and published this 1860 banner for the Republican ticket. - [Little Mac, a wartime campaign song against Old Abe](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/little-mac-song-sheet-feeks-1864/): J. F. Feeks of New York published this 1864 song sheet from the Democratic Presidential Campaign Songster. - [Lives Saved by Plasma (August 1943), a Red Cross Blood Donor Service sheet for local papers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/lives-saved-by-plasma-red-cross-1943/): Lives Saved by Plasma is an August 1943 news sheet from the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service in Washington. - [Lock Up These Papers, an OWI poster for government offices](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/lock-up-these-papers-owi-1945/): Lock Up These Papers is OWI Poster No. 72, dated 1945. - [A security slogan that made silence the whole of patriotism](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/loose-lips-might-sink-ships/): The 1942 poster of a burning ship warns that talk sinks vessels. - [The Ambassador of Jazz: a 1959 Beirut poster for Louis Armstrong](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/louis-armstrong-appearance-arabic-lebanon-1959/): An Arabic-English concert poster for Louis Armstrong and his All Stars at the UNESCO Theater in Beirut, with evening shows on 6 to 9 April and matinees on 7 and 9 April. - [Lubbers Don't Live! The Talker Named Grey (1943), a Navy training sheet in verse](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/lubbers-dont-live-talker-named-grey-1943/): Lubbers Don't Live! is a 1943 U.S. Navy training sheet from the Bureau of Naval Personnel. - [Learning to Fire a Bren Gun: Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 4](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/malaya-today-set-d-4-learning-to-fire-a-bren-gun-1953/): An English-captioned photo poster distributed in Malaya and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, catalog date 3 September 1953. - [The March on Washington seen from the Lincoln Memorial, 28 August 1963](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/march-on-washington-reflecting-pool-1963/): Warren K. Leffler's photograph for U.S. News & World Report looks from the Lincoln Memorial over the crowd of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which fills both sides of the Reflecting Pool. - [Marian Anderson at Zhongshan Hall: a 1957 Taipei bill with the State Department's name on it](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/marian-anderson-contralto-concert-chinese-taipei-1957/): A Chinese-English poster for a Marian Anderson recital in Taipei on 1 October 1957, presented with the American National Theatre and Academy and the State Department President's Fund, with the Far Eastern Travel Service as local sponsor. - [Orders for villagers inside a Marine cordon, on a hand-lettered 1966 leaflet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/marines-here-to-help-cordon-leaflet-1966/): A hand-lettered Vietnamese leaflet from 1966 says U.S. Marines are in the village to help the people and to drive off the Viet Cong by killing or capturing them, promises no harm to innocent civilians, and gives five orders, including "Do not run or try to escape the cordon." - [Martha Graham at the Dehghan Theatre: a 1956 Farsi bill from Tehran](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/martha-graham-ballet-farsi-tehran-1956/): A Farsi poster announcing modern ballet by Martha Graham and her company at the Dehghan Theatre on Lalehzar, Tehran, on 19 to 22 Bahman. - [Cuộc tàn sát đẫm máu tại Long-Mỹ, a 1967 atrocity sheet with a named survivor](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/massacre-of-long-my-1967/): The Massacre of Long My is sheet SP-1720, printed by the JUSPAO printing section in Saigon for the South Vietnamese government in 1967. - [M'Clellan Campaign Songs, No. 1, a four-song Democratic songbook of 1864](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/mcclellan-campaign-songs-pond-1864/): M'Clellan Campaign Songs, No. 1 is an 1864 Democratic songbook published in New York by Wm. - [Idle chimneys and smoking ones: the McKinley Was Right poster of 1900](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/mckinley-was-right-poster-1900/): A 1900 lithograph poster for McKinley's re-election, printed by Edwards, Deutsch & Heitmann of Chicago, sets "1896 Poverty Depression" with idle factories against "1900 Prosperity" with smoking chimneys, and ends on "Prosperity at home, prestige abroad, sound money." - [Conscription explained as a courtship riddle on a 1957 Saigon poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/meaning-of-compulsory-service-poster-222-dialogue-vietnamese-saigon-1957/): A Vietnamese-language poster in the U.S. Information Agency series for Asia, catalog date 24 May 1957 (NAID 6949134), sets a rhymed exchange between a young woman and a young man: she asks how conscription differs from mobilization, he explains, and she agrees to marry him. - [Men of 18 and 19 (1942), the Army's choose-your-branch poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/men-of-18-and-19-now-you-can-choose-1942/): Men of 18 and 19, now you can choose your branch of service is a 1942 U.S. Army recruiting poster. - [Truman's 1945 food message, printed as a poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/message-about-food-president-1945/): A Message About Food from the President of the United States is a 1945 Government Printing Office sheet carrying a printed Harry Truman signature. - [Twenty standards for women's work from the Women's Bureau, 1941](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/minimum-standards-employment-women-industry-1941/): Minimum Standards for Employment of Women in Industry is a 1941 U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau chart of twenty numbered standards, from an 8-hour day and no night work to "a wage based on occupation, not on sex nor race," each with a small drawing, priced at 10 cents (NAID 515014). - [The Operation of Democracy, a 1944 U.S. poster in Japanese that says dissent vanished](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/minshushugi-no-unyo-japanese-language-poster-1944/): The Operation of Democracy (Minshushugi no un'yo) is a 1944 Japanese-language poster published through the U.S. Government Printing Office. - [The Mission Accomplished banner on USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2003](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/mission-accomplished-banner-2003/): A U.S. Navy photograph dated May 2, 2003 shows sailors manning the rails of USS Abraham Lincoln under the "Mission Accomplished" banner that hung behind President George W. Bush during his May 1, 2003 address. - [Money Well Spent, I say: Jim Berryman on the cost of the 1956 campaign](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/money-well-spent-berryman-1957/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 5 February 1957. - [Moon Close-Ups from U.S. Ranger, the 1964 Bangkok photo-poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/moon-close-ups-from-us-ranger-poster-bangkok-english-1964/): Moon Close-Ups from U.S. Ranger is an English-language U.S. Information Agency photo-poster for Bangkok, dated 8 September 1964. - [More and More Women Work on Aircraft (1942), the Women's Bureau's equal-pay sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/more-and-more-women-work-on-aircraft-1942/): More and more women work on aircraft is a 1942 nine-photograph poster of the U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau, sold by the Superintendent of Documents for 10 cents. - [More Nurses Are Needed, Sgt. Henry McAlear's field nurse](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/more-nurses-are-needed-army-nurse-corps-1944/): More Nurses Are Needed! is a 1944 U.S. Army Nurse Corps poster signed Sgt. Henry McAlear. - [More Toolie You Crackie, More Happy Jappie, a Weinbrenner shop poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/more-toolie-you-crackie-1941/): More toolie you crackie, more happy jappie is a plant poster of the Albert H. Weinbrenner Co. of Milwaukee, catalogued at 1941 and copyrighted by Mandel Engraving Co. A caricatured Japanese soldier drools among broken cutting tools above mock-pidgin text and the employee prize slogan "Nations Fall When Workers Stall" (NAID 515023). - [Goldberg's UN peace terms, retold for Vietnamese readers on a 1966 JUSPAO sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/mot-de-nghi-hoa-binh-a-proposal-for-peace-1966/): Sheet SP-1478, printed in 1966 by the JUSPAO printing section of the U.S. Information Agency, tells Vietnamese readers what Ambassador Arthur Goldberg offered Hanoi at the United Nations, lists two terms, and reports that Hanoi called the offer a trick. - [A 1966 Mothers' Crusade advertisement against trade with the Soviet bloc](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/mothers-crusade-help-communists-kill-americans-1966/): A full-page 1966 advertisement by the Mothers' Crusade for Victory over Communism of Mesa, Arizona, argues that U.S. trade with communist countries helps them arm the Viet Cong, and asks readers to sign and mail a petition to the House of Representatives. - [Keppler's Puck blows up the Republican "Claim Agency," November 1884](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/mulligan-letters-1884/): Joseph Keppler's Puck centerfold of 19 November 1884 shows an explosion at a "Claim Agency, formerly Republican Head Quarters," with Blaine, Logan, and their allies flattened and still clutching "We still claim" papers while Cleveland watches on horseback. - [My Promise to You (1943), a bond's five terms on one sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/my-promise-to-you-this-bond-1943/): Printed in 1943 with no issuing office named, this poster shows Uncle Sam holding a $25 Defense Savings Bond issued in June 1941 and lists five terms: redemption on demand after 60 days, full return of principal, $4 for each $3 held ten years (2.9 percent), replacement if lost, and an optional co-owner (NAID 515040). - [Nap and Help a Jap, "Careless Carl" asleep beside his truck](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/nap-and-help-a-jap-careless-carl-1943/): Nap and help a Jap is an American wartime truck-maintenance poster filed with the 1943 sheets. - [I 15 paesi della NATO: a 1957 Rome poster built from flags and totals](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/nato-15-paesi-poster-italian-1957/): An Italian poster printed in Rome in April 1957 as a supplement to the review Documenti di Vita Italiana and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 16 April 1957. - [The "Negro Rule" vampire over the ballot box, from North Carolina's disfranchisement campaign](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/negro-rule-vampire-1900/): A racist cartoon by Norman E. Jennett, printed in the Raleigh News & Observer on 4 July 1900, shows a bat-winged Black figure labeled "Negro Rule" rising from a "Fusion ballot box," above a sworn statement accusing a Black preacher of urging the killing of whites. - [Eisenhower's cabinet on a 1953 Japanese-language poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/new-government-of-the-us-japanese-1953/): A Japanese-language poster filed with U.S. Information Agency posters distributed in Asia, catalog date 6 February 1953. - [Attention AFP Soldiers: a 1954 warning sheet on Huk ambush tactics](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/new-huk-tactics-1954/): A 1954 English warning sheet addressed to soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and held with U.S. Information Agency posters (NAID 5730036). - [How Many More Must Die?, the New Mobilization poster for November 1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/new-mobe-how-many-more-must-die-march-against-death-1969/): A 1969 poster by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam announces the March Against Death in Washington, D.C., November 13-15, 1969, under the question "How many more must die?" - ["New York Tough" COVID-19 poster (New York State, July 2020)](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/new-york-tough-covid-poster-2020/): "New York Tough" was a July 2020 poster issued by the Office of the Governor of New York. - [Nixon beside the binders: the edited tape transcripts, April 29, 1974](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/nixon-edited-transcripts-1974/): A White House photograph of April 29, 1974 shows President Richard Nixon addressing the nation beside stacked binders of edited transcripts of his tapes, offered in place of the recordings that had been subpoenaed. - [The Public Health Service builds a poster out of quack-cure advertisements](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/no-home-remedy-or-quack-ever-cured-syphilis-or-gonorrhea-1941/): A U.S. Public Health Service poster signed Karsakov and catalogued at 1941 builds a figure from clippings of patent-medicine advertisements, shown pouring red liquid onto a spoon, and answers them in one line: "No home remedy or quack ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea. See your doctor or health officer" (NAID 515076). - ["Our God-Given Right to Vote": a 1953 NAMFREL turnout poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/nobody-can-stop-us-from-voting-namfrel-1953/): A type-only English poster distributed in the Philippines and signed NAMFREL, filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, catalog date 30 July 1953. - [Rollin Kirby's dry lobbyist on a pile of political money, 1923](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/none-of-the-publics-business-1923/): A Rollin Kirby cartoon for the New York World, dated 8 February 1923, shows his "Mr. Dry" figure sprawled over coins labelled "Political Contributions," with an Anti-Saloon League umbrella and the caption "It's none of the public's business". - [Now for a Round-Up (1918), the I.W.W. in Uncle Sam's bundle](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/now-for-a-round-up-iww-1918/): Now for a Round-Up is a W. A. Rogers cartoon in the New York Herald, May 9, 1918. - [Liberated by the Viet Cong, nine photographs from a St. Louis student committee](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/nscvv-liberated-by-the-viet-cong-1968/): Liberated by the Viet Cong is a 1968 poster distributed by the National Student Committee for Victory in Vietnam, of St. Louis, Missouri. - [A child between soldiers' boots: the 1965 student poster for victory in Vietnam](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/nscvv-theyre-the-reason-were-in-vietnam-1965/): A 1965 poster distributed by the National Student Committee for Victory in Vietnam, of St. Louis, Missouri, prints one photograph of a small child standing among the legs of U.S. soldiers under the line "They're the reason we're in Vietnam." - [The Journal's Maine front page, with a verdict and a reward but no inquiry](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ny-journal-maine-destroyed-enemy-1898/): Two days after the USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Advertiser of 17 February 1898 declared the ship "the work of an enemy" and offered a $50,000 reward, before any inquiry had reported. - [The World's Maine front page, a cause in the banner and doubt in the deck](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ny-world-maine-bomb-or-torpedo-1898/): The New York World of 17 February 1898, Joseph Pulitzer's paper, ran the banner "Maine explosion caused by bomb or torpedo" two days after the USS Maine blew up in Havana, over a deck that conceded Captain Sigsbee and Consul-General Lee "are in doubt." - [The New York Times, 8 May 1915, "Lusitania Sunk by a Submarine"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/nyt-lusitania-sunk-1915-05-08/): The New York Times front page for Saturday, 8 May 1915. - [He's Too Hip and He's Covered, a 2015 White House comic by Carolyn Belefski](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/obama-aca-comic-hipster-healthcare-gov-2015/): A January 27, 2015 four-panel comic drawn by Carolyn Belefski for the Obama White House shows a bearded cyclist and ends "But even he's not too hip for health care," with a panel pointing readers to HealthCare.gov. - [House of Cuts, the Obama White House graphic on the 2014 House budget](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/obama-house-of-cuts-infographic-2014/): House of Cuts is an April 10, 2014 White House infographic attacking the House Republican budget. - [Official United States War Film (1917), a title card with two government names](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/official-united-states-war-film-title-card-1917/): A 1917 blue sheet in white capitals announces an official United States war film produced by the Army Signal Corps and the Committee on Public Information. - [Oil Is Ammunition! (1943), a broadside asking oil workers to stay put](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/oil-is-ammunition-oil-workers-are-war-workers-1943/): Oil is ammunition! Oil workers are war workers! is a 1943 text broadside of the Petroleum Industry War Council. - [Gordon Grant's Old Ironsides print for the 1927 restoration fund](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/old-ironsides-frigate-constitution-1927/): A 1927 colour print of the frigate U.S.S. Constitution under full sail, reproduced from a Gordon Grant painting by direction of the National Committee "Save Old Ironsides" Fund. - [Jackson as a barn cat, and his opponents as Bank and Clay rats](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/old-jack-mouser-bank-clay-rats-1832/): Michael Williams's 1832 New York lithograph draws Andrew Jackson as a cat clearing "Uncle Sam's Barn" of rats labeled for the Bank of the United States and Henry Clay, while onlookers cheer. - [Migrating South Is Choosing Freedom: Operation Freedom poster No. 2](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/operation-freedom-poster-no-2-migrating-south-vietnamese-saigon-1954/): A Vietnamese-language sheet of fifteen numbered, captioned photographs distributed in Saigon and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 22 September 1954. - [A Think American poster puts spy orders in the mouths of three dictators](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/our-enemies-orders-to-their-spies-fight-un-american-propaganda-1941/): A Think American Institute poster catalogued at 1941, signed C X R Miller and copyrighted by Kelly-Read and Co. of Rochester, quotes "Divide labor and management, turn class against class and spread religious hatred" as orders signed by Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini, over a submarine landing men by boat (NAID 515143). - [Paul Robeson - Actor, Artist, Athlete (1943), Charles Alston's OWI profile panel](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/owi-alston-paul-robeson-actor-artist-athlete-1943/): Paul Robeson - Actor, Artist, Athlete is a 1943 Office of War Information profile panel drawn in pencil by Charles Henry Alston. - [A Second Emancipation Proclamation!! (1943), Charles Alston's Atlantic Charter cartoon](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/owi-alston-second-emancipation-proclamation-1943/): A Second Emancipation Proclamation!! is a 1943 Office of War Information cartoon drawn by Charles Alston. - [A Wise Old Owl (1943), the War Department's rhyming security poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/owl-silence-means-security-1943/): Silence means security is a 1943 War Department poster from the Adjutant General's Office, labeled the "Owl" security poster. - [The 1927 call to a Pan-African Congress in New York](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pan-african-congress-fourth-call-1927/): A typewritten circular from the Circle for Peace and Foreign Relations, chaired by Addie Waite Hunton, called a Fourth Pan-African Congress to meet in New York on 21–24 August 1927. - [Penicillin works 95 times out of 100, a 1946 Navy venereal-disease poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/penicillin-for-gonorrhea-navy-1946/): Penicillin for Gonorrhea Works 95 Times Out of 100 is a 1946 Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery poster signed by Charmatz. - [People of Grenada, a US Army handbill from October 1983](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/people-of-grenada-us-handbill-1983/): A US Army psychological-operations handbill from Operation Urgent Fury, October 1983, tells the people of Grenada that their Caribbean neighbors, with U.S. support, have come to restore democracy and insure their safety. - [People Who Stand on Swivel Chairs End Up in Wheel Chairs (1946)](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/people-who-stand-on-swivel-chairs-va-1946/): People Who Stand on Swivel Chairs End Up in Wheel Chairs is V.A. Poster 5-4, a 1946 Veterans Administration office-safety sheet signed WB. - [Capitalismo del Pueblo: a 1957 Guatemala poster for People's Capitalism](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/peoples-capitalism-exhibition-poster-62-guatemala-1957/): A Spanish-language poster, No. 62, signed R. G. Goyri and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 3 June 1957. - [Pershing Says: an AEF poster that thanked the Services of Supply](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pershing-says-sos-1918/): A 1918 American Expeditionary Forces poster prints a statement from General John J. Pershing thanking the Services of Supply for answering the First Army's demands. - [A government war film, advertised as a holy war](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pershings-crusaders-1918/): The Committee on Public Information's 1918 poster for an official picture borrows crusader shields for the American Expeditionary Forces. - [Alaska, Hawaii and the 49-star flag on a 1959 Amharic-English photo sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pictorial-review-ii-10-alaska-hawaii-statehood-amharic-ethiopia-1959/): Pictorial Review, Volume II, Number 10, an Amharic-English photo sheet from Addis Ababa filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 7 July 1959. - [Negro Woman Wins High Office: Constance Baker Motley on a 1965 USIA news sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-7-english-beirut-1965/): Pictures in the News No. 7, an English photo sheet from the U.S. Information Agency's Beirut series, catalog date 20 June 1965. - [College Students Rebuild a Church: a burned Mississippi church on a 1965 USIA news sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-no-5-english-beirut-1965/): Pictures in the News No. 5, an English fold-out photo sheet distributed from Beirut with a catalog date of 12 March 1965. - [Pipedown Soldier (1942), a telephone call and a listener](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pipedown-soldier-tokios-listening-1942/): Pipedown Soldier! Tokio's Listening! is a 1942 security poster of the Office of Facts and Figures, marked for posting on transportation property only. - [Pitch In and Help! (1943), Morley's Women's Land Army recruiting poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pitch-in-and-help-womens-land-army-1943/): Pitch in and Help! is a 1943 recruiting poster for the Women's Land Army of the U.S. Crop Corps, signed Morley. - [It's Time to Lay This Needle Aside!, Jim Berryman on polio vaccine politics](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/polio-vaccine-politics-needle-berryman-1955/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 18 May 1955. - [Position of the Democratic Party in 1852, Pierce face-down on the Baltimore Platform](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/position-democratic-party-1852/): An 1852 antislavery print entered for copyright by William K. Leach and sold by Bela Marsh of Boston lays Franklin Pierce face-down on a "Baltimore Platform" lettered "Fugitive Slave Law and nigger catching," before a whip-holding "Slave holder & Peace maker," while a devil cheers. - [A federal chart grades four boys' bodies from Excellent to Bad, 1926](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/posture-standards-stocky-boys-1926/): A 1926 health chart from the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor shows four side-view silhouettes of stocky-type boys, lettered A to D and graded Excellent, Good, Poor, and Bad, each with four points on head, chest, abdomen, and back. - [The truck-lab diagram shown to the Security Council on 5 February 2003](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/powell-un-mobile-labs-2003/): A State Department slide from Colin Powell's 5 February 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council renders truck-mounted plants for making biological agents. - [Keep Off! Monroe Doctrine, T. E. Powers's 1912 Magdalena Bay cartoon](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/powers-keep-off-monroe-doctrine-1912/): Keep Off! Monroe Doctrine is a 1912 cartoon by T. E. Powers. - [Fillmore's "American Express" wins a race, and Frémont is handed a cross](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/presidential-sweepstakes-fillmore-1856/): An 1856 Nathaniel Currier print stages the election as a horse race in which Millard Fillmore's "American Express" coach leads to cheers, Buchanan rides on Pierce's back, and Frémont's cart sinks in an "Abolition Cess Pool." - [Having Seen the Quality of the Work (1942), Roosevelt on production, OWI Poster No. 13](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/presidents-report-to-the-press-1942/): OWI Poster No. 13, printed in 1942, sets a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in an open car, looking at a large sheet held by a general, over a signed quotation: "we are getting ahead of our enemies in the battle of production" (NAID 515208). - [Church or saloon, the two towns of the 1888 Prohibition Party print](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/principles-of-the-prohibition-party-1888/): An 1888 lithograph for the Prohibition Party ticket of Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks sets a town labeled "Our desire," with church and Sunday school, against a "Present situation" of saloons, a prison, and an asylum. - [Private Snafu in No Buddy Atoll (1945), the knocked-out officer](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/private-snafu-no-buddy-atoll-officer-caricature-1945/): A black-and-white frame from No Buddy Atoll, a 1945 Private Snafu cartoon made for the War Department's Army First Motion Picture Unit and animated by Warner Bros. Cartoons under Chuck Jones. - [Produce for Victory (1942), a worker quoting the Bill of Rights](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/produce-for-victory-bill-of-rights-1942/): Produce for Victory! is a 1942 color photographic plant poster published by The Sheldon-Claire Co. of Chicago. - [Production Lines Are Battle Lines (1942), by Ches Cobb](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/production-lines-are-battle-lines-1942/): Production lines are battle lines! is a 1942 poster issued by the Division of Information of the War Production Board and the Office of Emergency Management. - ["Propaganda does not fill the stomach": a 1958 Quechua poster from Lima](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/propaganda-pamphlets-poster-66-quechua-peru-1958/): A Quechua-language poster, No. 66, printed by El Condor in Lima and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 1958. - [Prostitution Spreads Syphilis and Gonorrhea, a Public Health Service sheet that blames one party](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/prostitution-spreads-syphilis-and-gonorrhea-1944/): Prostitution spreads syphilis and gonorrhea is a 1944 U.S. Public Health Service poster, VD 16, signed Karsakov. - [Public Office Is a Public Trust, Democratic Campaign Banner No. 1 for Cleveland and Thurman](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/public-office-is-a-public-trust-banner-1888/): Democratic Campaign Banner No. 1, printed in 1888 by Hitchcock's Steam Printing and Publishing House of New York, sets Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman under an eagle with three slogans: "Public office is a public trust," "Unnecessary taxation oppresses industry," and "Reduce the tariff on necessaries of life." - [As to Japanese Exclusion, Puck's 1907 cover and its "real Undesirables"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/puck-as-to-japanese-exclusion-1907/): As to Japanese Exclusion is Frank A. Nankivell's Puck cover of 13 March 1907. - ["I Did Not Raise My Girl to Be a Voter" (1915), Puck's chorus](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/puck-did-not-raise-my-girl-1915/): A pro-suffrage Puck cartoon of 9 October 1915. - [Garfield and Hancock nail the same plank, a Puck cover of July 1880](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/puck-where-both-platforms-agree-anti-chinese-1880/): James A. Wales's Puck cover of 14 July 1880 shows Garfield and Hancock hammering an "Anti-Chinese" board, one half Republican and one half Democratic, around a Chinese man drawn in racial caricature. - [Pvt. Joe Louis Says (1942), the heavyweight champion in uniform](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/pvt-joe-louis-says-were-on-gods-side-1942/): Pvt. Joe Louis says is a 1942 Office of War Information poster. - [What the U.S. Is Doing in Santo Domingo, a USIA relief poster from 1965](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/que-hacen-los-estados-unidos-en-santo-domingo-spanish-1965/): Que hacen los Estados Unidos en Santo Domingo is a Spanish-language U.S. Information Agency photo poster for Mexico City, catalog date 19 May 1965. - [Race Mixing Is Communism: signs at the Arkansas State Capitol, 1959](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/race-mixing-is-communism-1959/): A U.S. News & World Report photograph, now at the Library of Congress, of a 20 August 1959 rally at the Arkansas State Capitol against integrating Little Rock's schools. - [The 1961 annex that explained Radio Swan's "commercial" cover](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/radio-swan-brief-history-memo-1961/): An "Eyes Only" annex held in Kennedy White House files says a CIA radio station on Swan Island was built for a 1960 covert program against Castro, set up as a commercial station at the Navy's request, and run by selling airtime to Cuban groups. - [Rationing Means a Fair Share for All of Us (1943), the OPA before-and-after sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/rationing-means-a-fair-share-for-all-of-us-opa-1943/): Rationing Means a Fair Share for All of Us is a 1943 Office of Price Administration poster. - [Rationing Safeguards Your Share (1942), the OPA's case for coupons](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/rationing-safeguards-your-share-opa-1942/): Rationing safeguards your share is a 1942 landscape poster of the Office of Price Administration. - [Read the Official Bulletin (1917), Committee on Public Information](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/read-the-official-bulletin-war-information-1917/): A 1917 Committee on Public Information poster advertises the Official Bulletin, a daily published under order of the President, and lists the wartime agencies readers could learn about by asking for it locally instead of writing to Washington. - [Ready Power for Peace, the Seventh Fleet on a 1964 sheet for Manila](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ready-power-for-peace-7th-fleet-pacific-1964/): Ready Power for Peace is an English U.S. Information Agency sheet for Manila, catalog date 21 May 1964, printed as a supplement to Free World. - [Slave World Facts, Free World Facts: Red Star Over Asia, a 1951 Manila poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/red-star-over-asia-po-24-e-english-manila-1951/): Red Star Over Asia (PO-24-E) is an English poster filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, catalog date 3 October 1951. - [Regeneración, 16 August 1913, "La Invasion Americana" front page](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/regeneracion-la-invasion-americana-1913/): The front page of Regeneración, the Los Angeles weekly of the Mexican Liberal Party, for 16 August 1913. - [A 1938 Army handbill offers discharged regulars a place in the Reserve](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/regulars-and-ex-regulars-army-reserve-1938/): Regulars and ex-regulars is a 1938 U.S. Army recruiting handbill in red and blue type. - [The Mindszenty trial for Thai readers: Religious Oppression poster 171d](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/religious-oppression-171d-mindszenty-thai-1954/): A Thai-language poster distributed in Bangkok, catalog date 15 September 1954, in a U.S. Information Agency "Religious Oppression" set. - [Communism Destroys Religion: poster 171e for Thai readers, 1954](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/religious-oppression-171e-communism-destroys-religion-thai-1954/): A Thai-language poster distributed in Bangkok, catalog date 15 September 1954, in a U.S. Information Agency "Religious Oppression" set. - [An Army Reserve poster asks discharged soldiers to be minute men, 1938](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/remain-with-the-colors-modern-minute-man-1938/): A 1938 U.S. Army recruiting poster shows a uniformed soldier before a flag with a pale Revolutionary minuteman behind him, under the line "Be a modern minute man." - [Remember Belgium, Buy Bonds (1918), Ellsworth Young's Fourth Liberty Loan sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/remember-belgium-buy-bonds-1918/): Remember Belgium is a 1918 Fourth Liberty Loan poster signed by Ellsworth Young. - [Two photographs in one album, and a war in the gutter between them](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/remember-the-maine-starving-cubans-judge-1898/): Victor Gillam's 7 May 1898 cartoon in Judge shows the Maine whole and wrecked, then emaciated Cuban civilians, and tells the viewer not to forget either. - [Remember Your First Thrill of American Liberty (1917), a Second Liberty Loan appeal to immigrants](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/remember-your-first-thrill-of-american-liberty-1917/): A 1917 Treasury poster for the Second Liberty Loan shows immigrant families on a ship's deck looking toward the Statue of Liberty. - [Apollo 11's return trip on a Vietnamese-language fold-out from Saigon, 1969](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/return-trip-to-earth-apollo-11-1969/): A 1969 Vietnamese-language fold-out titled "Return trip to Earth" pairs a color photograph of a spacecraft over the Moon, with Earth on the horizon, with frames of a module burning up on reentry, and quotes astronaut Collins on the lunar module Eagle. - [He needs a mind of his own, a 1970 transit ad for Radio Free Europe](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/rfe-mind-of-his-own-1970/): A 1970 transit advertisement for Radio Free Europe, carrying the Advertising Council mark and the line "A public service of Transit Advertising," shows a solemn child with a chain and padlock round his head and the words "He needs a mind of his own" and "He needs Radio Free Europe." - [When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Hitler (1943), Weimer Pursell's car-sharing poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ride-alone-hitler-1943/): When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler! is a 1943 American home-front poster signed Weimer Pursell. - [Right in Der Fuehrer's Face (1942), Second War Loan poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/right-in-der-fuehrers-face-invest-now-1942/): Right in Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1942 poster of the US Treasury for the Second War Loan. - [Hand-lettered signs at the January 1978 Right to Life march in Washington](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/right-to-life-abortion-is-murder-1978/): A Library of Congress photograph of January 23, 1978 shows marchers in Washington, D.C., on the fifth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, carrying hand-lettered anti-abortion signs. - [Saboteur (1943), the U.S. Public Health Service's rat poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/saboteur-rat-public-health-1943/): Saboteur is a 1943 U.S. Public Health Service poster of the Federal Security Agency. - [Save Food, Fight Famine (1946), a four-word banner](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/save-food-fight-famine-1946/): Save Food, Fight Famine is a 1946 Government Printing Office banner with no picture: four white capital words on a long, narrow brown strip. - [Save Serbia Our Ally (1916), Steinlen for the Serbian Relief Committee](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/save-serbia-our-ally-steinlen-1916/): Save Serbia Our Ally is a crayon lithograph by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen for the Serbian Relief Committee of America in New York, dated 1916 in the archive and signed "steinlen 1915." - [Save Waste Fats for Explosives (1943), Henry Koerner's frying pan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/save-waste-fats-for-explosives-1943/): Save Waste Fats for Explosives is OWI Poster No. 63, signed H. Koerner and printed in 1943. - [Save Waste Paper, a four-step sorting poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/save-waste-paper-sort-and-bundle-1944/): Save Waste Paper is a 1944 U.S. government salvage poster with no issuer printed. - [Save Your Cans (1942), McClelland Barclay's ammunition belt of tins](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/save-your-cans-pass-the-ammunition-1942/): Save your cans, help pass the ammunition is a 1942 poster of the War Production Board's Salvage Division, signed by McClelland Barclay, USNR. - [Save Your Scraps to Bomb the Japs (1942), a Seeburg poster built on a slur](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/save-your-scraps-to-bomb-the-japs-1942/): Save your scraps to bomb the Japs is a 1942 salvage poster copyrighted by J. P. Seeburg Corp. of Chicago and signed Hamill. - [School Begins, Puck's 1899 lesson that new territories need not consent](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/school-begins-puck-1899/): School Begins, Louis Dalrymple's Puck centerfold of 25 January 1899, draws Uncle Sam teaching new pupils labelled Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Cuba under a blackboard that says the United States "must govern its new territories with or without their consent until they can govern themselves." - [Recognize the Signs, the 2018 DHS poster of fifteen suspicious activities](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/see-something-say-something-dhs/): A 2018 poster from the Department of Homeland Security's "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign sets a cheerful scene of homes, a stadium, a farm and a marina under "Protect your every day," then lists fifteen signs of "terrorism-related suspicious activity," from threats and theft to "acquisition of expertise," and asks readers to report to local authorities. - [Shadow across the rising sun: Jim Berryman's 1960 question mark over Japan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/shadow-across-rising-sun-japan-berryman-1960/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 17 June 1960. - [Share the Meat, a sponsors' sheet that calls rationing an honor system](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/share-the-meat-1941/): Share the meat is an advertisement sheet catalogued at 1941, with a blank panel for sponsoring firms. - [She May Look Clean—But (1943), a VD warning aimed at women](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/she-may-look-clean-but-1943/): She May Look Clean—But is a 1943 U.S. government venereal-disease prevention poster held in the Office of War Information poster file. - ["She Stood by Me for Hours," a paratrooper's account sold as a call for Army nurses](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/she-stood-by-me-for-hours-army-nurse-corps-1944/): She stood by me for hours is a 1944 U.S. Army Nurse Corps recruiting poster. - [Slums Breed Crime, a 1941 housing poster built on an arrest photograph](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/slums-breed-crime-usha-1941/): A 1941 United States Housing Authority poster, signed by the artist Beall, lays a red shackled hand and the headline "Slums Breed Crime" over a photograph of brick tenements, a police van, officers, and a man being taken in. - [Smokey Says, Albert Staehle's 1944 bear and a fire statistic with no source](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/smokey-says-care-will-prevent-9-out-of-10-1944/): Smokey says - Care will prevent 9 out of 10 forest fires! is a 1944 poster signed Albert Staehle for the U.S. Forest Service and the California Division of Forestry. - [Sneaky and the Professor (1943), a comic strip against quack gonorrhea cures](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/sneaky-and-the-professor-1943/): Sneaky and the Professor is a 1943 color comic-strip poster signed Broder and printed by the Government Printing Office, with no issuing office named. - ["A soldier in the war against poverty": a rural cadre profiled on a JUSPAO poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/soldier-in-the-war-against-poverty-1965-1969/): JUSPAO poster SP-1436, made for the South Vietnamese government and dated 1965, profiles Ha Van Nam, a Rural Construction cadre leader in An Giang, as a soldier in a war on hunger, injustice, disease, and ignorance, and shows him helping build homes at a hamlet of 412 refugee families. - [Somebody Blabbed (1942), Albert Dorne's fallen hand in the wire](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/somebody-blabbed-button-your-lip-soldier-hand-1942/): Somebody blabbed - Button your lip! is a 1942 Office of Facts and Figures security poster signed Albert Dorne. - [Someone Talked! (1942), Koerner's newspaper hand](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/someone-talked-koerner-hoe-1942/): Someone Talked! is a 1942 security poster signed Koerner that won the R. Hoe & Co. award in the National War Poster Competition held by Artists for Victory, the Council for Democracy and the Museum of Modern Art. - [Speaking of Pictures... Russian War Posters Are Colorful and Forceful (Life, 1942)](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/speaking-of-pictures-russian-war-posters-life-us-1942/): A Life magazine page marked by hand "Life - Aug 24, 1942" reproduces Soviet war posters for American readers, with English captions: Nazis drawn as cows and pigs, and Hitler, Goering and Goebbels mocked as the "perfect Aryan type." - ["Special Delivery for Freedom!", Charles Alston's merchant seaman for Maritime Day 1944](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/special-delivery-for-freedom-alston-1944/): "Special Delivery for Freedom!" is a 1944 Office of War Information pencil drawing by Charles Alston for Maritime Day, May 22, 1944. - [Squeeze in one more, from a drawing by Dr. Seuss](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/squeeze-in-one-more-douglas-war-production-drive-1941/): Help win the war: Squeeze in one more is a 1941 poster for the Douglas Aircraft Company War Production Drive, drawn by Lee Morehouse from an original drawing by Dr. Seuss. - [A leaflet signed by a league that did not exist, with Le Loi on the front](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/sspl-le-loi-leaflet-1960s/): A 1964 Vietnamese-language leaflet with a drawn portrait of the fifteenth-century hero Le Loi calls on readers to uphold the unyielding will of the Lac-Hong lineage in destroying communism. - [An identity card for a resistance league that MACV-SOG made up](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/sspl-membership-card-1971/): A 1971 bilingual identity card in the name of the Sacred Sword of the Patriots League Southern Committee. - [A Black weekly printed the names of 23 aldermen who would not vote on the Klan](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/st-louis-argus-aldermen-fail-to-condemn-klan-1921/): The St. Louis Argus of 14 October 1921 reported that an anti-Klan resolution failed in the city's Board of Aldermen because 23 members did not vote, then printed every one of their names and wards for readers to keep. - [Stamp Out Black Markets (1943), the thumb on the ration stamp](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/stamp-out-black-markets-with-your-ration-stamps-legal-prices-1943/): Stamp out black markets... with your ration stamps is a 1943 U.S. government poster with no agency named. - [State Mining, the 1828 lithograph that seats Jackson on the Rock of Ages](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/state-mining-rock-of-ages-jackson-1828/): State Mining is an 1828 pro-Jackson lithograph signed M. Williams. - [The State of This Nation Is Good (1943), Roosevelt's lines as a poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/state-of-the-nation-roosevelt-owi-poster-40-1943/): The State of This Nation Is Good is OWI Poster No. 40, printed in 1943. - ["Stay on the Job Until Every Murdering Jap Is Wiped Out!", Army poster ISD No. 148](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/stay-on-the-job-murdering-jap-1944/): What Are You Going to Do About It? Stay on the Job Until Every Murdering Jap Is Wiped Out! is a 1944 U.S. Army official poster, I.S.D. No. 148. - [Stay on the Job, Ronald McLeod's foxhole poster for war workers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/stay-on-the-job-to-finish-the-job-1944/): Stay on the Job to Finish the Job is a 1944 U.S. Army official poster, ISD No. 165, signed Ronald McLeod. - [Still at the Top of the Sick List, the American Social Hygiene Association's Poster No. 3](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/still-at-the-top-of-the-sick-list-1942/): Still at the top of the sick list is Poster No. 3 of the American Social Hygiene Association, dated 1942 in the archive. - [Hungarian refugees before Philippine audiences, as a USIA photo sheet told it](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/story-of-hungary-poster-1-comes-to-philippines-manila-1958/): Story of Hungary No. 1 is an English photo sheet printed as a supplement to Free World magazine (November 1957) and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, catalog date 7 January 1958. - [Sucker! If You Pay Over Ceiling Prices (1946), Bausili for the OPA](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/sucker-if-you-pay-over-ceiling-prices-1946/): Sucker! If You Pay Over Ceiling Prices is a 1946 Office of Price Administration poster signed Bausili. - [Survival in Space: a 1958 photo spread on preparing people for spaceflight](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/survival-in-space-english-asia-1958/): A two-page English photo poster from the U.S. Information Agency series for Asia, catalog date 30 October 1958. - [Survival Under Atomic Attack, the 1950 civil defense booklet cover](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/survival-under-atomic-attack-booklet-1950/): Survival Under Atomic Attack is a 1950 federal civil defense booklet from the Civil Defense Office of the National Security Resources Board, printed by the Government Printing Office. - [Kirby's "Swear!" put the Anti-Saloon League in a Klan handshake](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/swear-dry-and-klan-1923/): Rollin Kirby's cartoon "Swear!", dated 11 November 1923, shows his prohibitionist figure Mr. Dry, lettered "Anti Saloon League," clasping hands with a hooded Klansman before a burning cross. - [Tell That to the Marines! (1918), Flagg's angry civilian](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/tell-that-to-the-marines-1918/): Tell That to the Marines! is a 1918 Marine Corps recruiting poster by James Montgomery Flagg for the New York office at 24 East 23rd Street. - [Texas Coming In, with Clay pulled into Salt River](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/texas-coming-in-polk-1844/): An 1844 lithograph drawn by H. Bucholzer and published by James Baillie in New York shows a steamboat named Texas rolling toward a welcoming James K. Polk while Henry Clay and his allies are dragged into Salt River. - [Thank You So Much, American Soldier, for Wasting Food (1943), a Camp Lee poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/thank-you-for-wasting-food-help-tojo-1943/): Thank you so much, American soldier, for wasting food is a 1943 U.S. Army poster hand-lettered by Pvt. - [That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth (1918), Joseph Pennell's Fourth Liberty Loan poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/that-liberty-shall-not-perish-1918/): Joseph Pennell's 1918 poster for the Fourth Liberty Loan shows lower Manhattan in flames under aircraft, a submarine in the harbor, and the Statue of Liberty broken with her head in the water. - [The Boot... Toe and Heel: Jim Berryman on De Gasperi, Fascists and "Commies"](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-boot-toe-and-heel-de-gasperi-1953/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 30 July 1953. - [The Fox Chace, Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/): The Fox Chace is an 1840 Whig cartoon published in New York by John Childs, with the monogram of Edward Williams Clay. - [The Grease You Save... Will Burn the Pants off Hermann! (1943), a fat-salvage joke](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-grease-you-save-hermann-1943/): The grease you save... will burn the pants off Hermann! is a 1943 U.S. government fat-salvage poster signed Archer. - [The Jap Way: Cold-Blooded Murder (1943), the Army sheet on the executed Tokyo raiders](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-jap-way-cold-blooded-murder-1943/): The Jap Way: Cold-Blooded Murder is a 1943 U.S. Army official poster (I.S.D. No. 101). - [The Juggler: Jim Berryman's 1954 cartoon of Mendes-France and the EDC](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-juggler-berryman-1954/): A Washington Evening Star cartoon by Jim Berryman, dated 20 August 1954. - [The Menace, 12 April 1913, an anti-Catholic weekly's front page](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-menace-front-page-1913/): The front page of The Menace, an anti-Catholic weekly published at Aurora, Missouri, for 12 April 1913. - [The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win! (1943), a jobs list for the Employment Service](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-more-women-at-work-the-sooner-we-win-1943/): The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win! is OWI Poster No. 52, made in 1943 for the U.S. Employment Service. - [The Nazis burned these books (1943), OWI poster no. 66](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-nazis-burned-these-books-1943/): The Nazis burned these books is a 1943 Office of War Information poster, number 66. - [The Public Eye Is on You: a 1955 conduct poster that watches the soldiers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-public-eye-is-on-you-soldiers-conduct-asia-1955/): An English-language poster distributed in Asia and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 4 February 1955. - [The Spacemobile, a 1965 poster for a NASA space science lecture](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-spacemobile-english-multiple-posts-1965/): The Spacemobile is an English-language poster in the U.S. Information Agency's overseas series, dated 26 February 1965. - [The Woman Who Votes Has Outdone the Man Who Didn't! (1951)](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/the-woman-who-votes-english-1951/): An English-language voting poster in the National Archives' file of posters distributed in Asia, catalog date 8 October 1951. - [They Did Their Part (1943), OWI Poster No. 42 and the five Sullivan brothers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/they-did-their-part-sullivan-brothers-1943/): They did their part is OWI Poster No. 42, printed in 1943. - [They're Closer Than You Think! (1942), enemies over the lathe](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/theyre-closer-than-you-think-1942/): They're closer than you think! is a 1942 poster of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department for its "Keep 'em shootin'" campaign. - [This Is Nazi Brutality (1942), the Lidice quotation](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/this-is-nazi-brutality-1943/): This Is Nazi Brutality is a 1942 US government poster. - [This Is the Enemy (1943), the swastika and the Bible](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/this-is-the-enemy-1943/): This Is the Enemy is a 1943 Office of War Information poster, number 76. - [This Isn't War... It's Murder (1943), the Army poster built on a news clipping](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/this-isnt-war-its-murder-army-1943/): This isn't war... it's murder is a 1943 U.S. Army official poster, I.S.D. No. 100. - [This Man Is Your Friend (1942), the Chinese soldier on the Office of Facts and Figures sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/this-man-is-your-friend-chinese-1942/): This Man Is Your Friend: Chinese. He Fights for Freedom is a 1942 poster of the Office of Facts and Figures, printed by the Government Printing Office. - [This Man May Die if You Talk Too Much (1943), the sailor in the porthole](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/this-man-may-die-if-you-talk-too-much-owi-poster-6-1943/): This Man May Die if You Talk Too Much is OWI Poster No. 6, signed Sarra, in a 1943 printing. - [To Make Men Free, John Falter's WAVES recruiting poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/to-make-men-free-waves-1944/): To Make Men Free is a 1944 U.S. Navy recruiting poster for the WAVES, signed John Falter, USNR. - [Tokio Kid says earn your E, poster no. 714](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/tokio-kid-earn-your-e-1942/): Tokio Kid Say: If Not Working Hard for "E's" is a 1942 poster, number 714, in a plant-poster series whose only printed office mark is a War Production Drive emblem. - [Tokio Kid says a mishap helps the enemy](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/tokio-kid-oh-so-joyful-mishap-1942/): Tokio Kid Say: Oh So Joyful for Mishap is a 1942 poster by Jack Campbell for Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Santa Monica. - [Tokio Kid says rivets on the floor are a gift](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/tokio-kid-rivets-on-floor-1942/): Tokio Kid Say: Rivets on Floor is a 1942 poster, number 812, published by Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Santa Monica. - [Totalitarianism Is Your Enemy: a pointing villager on a 1954 Rangoon poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/totalitarianism-is-your-enemy-po-230-b-burmese-rangoon-1954/): A Burmese-language color poster distributed in Rangoon, PO-230-B, filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, catalog date 19 February 1954. - [Treat 'Em Rough! (1918), August Hutaf's black cat for the Tank Corps](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/treat-em-rough-join-the-tanks-1918/): Treat 'Em Rough! is a 1918 recruiting poster for the United States Tank Corps, art by August Hutaf, printed by National Printing & Engineering Co. A huge black cat leaps through flames over tanks and barbed wire. - [President's Coronavirus Guidelines for America, the March 16, 2020 household mailer](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/trump-coronavirus-guidelines-postcard-2020/): President Trump's Coronavirus Guidelines for America was a March 2020 household mailer issued by the White House Coronavirus Task Force and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. - [Alive in the North, dead in the South: JUSPAO leaflet No. 2448 and the wrong body](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/trung-tuong-tran-do-song-chet-leaflet-1968/): JUSPAO leaflet No. 2448, dated 1968, sets a portrait labeled Lieutenant General Trần Độ, "alive in the North," above a photograph of a corpse labeled "dead in the South." - [A "Truth Dollar" with Washington's face, sold for Radio Free Europe](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/truth-dollar-1954/): A 1954 Crusade for Freedom advertisement asks Americans to "invest a Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe, with George Washington's portrait framed like a banknote. - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant, the 1844 pro-Polk cartoon in Dorr's cell](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/): An 1844 cartoon drawn by H. Bucholzer and published by James Baillie of New York sets Polk and Dallas beside the chained Thomas Dorr, while Clay, Frelinghuysen and Webster speak of aristocracy and of a Protestant succession "on the ruins of Popery." - [Leaflet 7255: a 1953 insult aimed at Chinese soldiers' marriages](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/un-command-green-hat-turtle-leaflet-7255-1953/): A 1953 Chinese-language leaflet, number 7255, from United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army. - [Leaflet 1243: a 1952 appeal to North Korean farmers over the tax in kind](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/un-command-leaflet-1243-farmers-tax-1952/): A Korean-language leaflet, number 1243, dated 18 November 1952, from United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army. - [Leaflet 8274: the porter, the cart, and the bomber, in a 1952 Korean leaflet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/un-command-leaflet-8274-cart-vs-b29-1952/): A green, two-sided Korean-language leaflet, number 8274, from United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army in 1952. - [Leaflet 8526: a 1951 warning to Chinese drivers, with an invitation to cross over](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/un-command-moving-vehicles-target-leaflet-8526-1951/): A Chinese-language leaflet, number 8526, dropped on Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea in 1951. - [Leaflet 7230, a Korean War cartoon telling Chinese troops Moscow would not give full aid](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/un-command-stalin-withholds-aid-leaflet-7230-1953/): A 1953 Chinese-language cartoon leaflet, serial 7230, from United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army. - [A cheaper vaccine for cattle: U.N. Day Poster No. 7 in Japanese, 1953](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/un-day-poster-7-cattle-plague-vaccine-japanese-1953/): A Japanese-language photo poster numbered 7 in a U.N. Day set, filed with U.S. Information Agency posters distributed in Asia, catalog date 14 September 1953. - [MacArthur's 20 August 1950 letter on the killing of prisoners](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/unc-macarthur-letter-to-kpa-commander-1950/): On 20 August 1950 General Douglas MacArthur, writing for the United Nations Command, addressed a typed letter to the commander-in-chief of North Korea's armed forces. - [A 1950 Korean leaflet that put MacArthur's face on a radio schedule](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/unc-macarthur-radio-news-leaflet-1950/): A Korean-language leaflet from the United Nations Command's psychological warfare service in 1950. - [A 1951 United Nations Command warning to leave Pyongyang](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/unc-pyongyang-citizens-air-raid-warning-leaflet-1951/): This two-sided Korean leaflet, number 1020, was issued by the United Nations Command's psychological warfare service in 1951. - [Lincoln with a schoolhouse, McClellan with a slave auction, 1864](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/union-and-liberty-1864/): Martin W. Siebert's 1864 wood engraving for the Republican side splits the election in two. - [United States Property! (1943), Ickes's order taking possession of coal mines](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/united-states-property-coal-mines-order-1943/): United States Property! is a 1943 Interior Department notice printing Harold L. Ickes's order taking possession of coal mines where a strike or stoppage "has occurred or is threatened." - [United We Win, a 1943 photograph of two riveters under one flag](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/united-we-win-1943/): United We Win is OWI Poster No. 18, issued in 1943 for the War Manpower Commission. - [A 1948 Universal newsreel title card on General Clay and the Berlin airlift](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/universal-news-gen-clay-berlin-airlift-1948/): This is the opening title card of a Universal-International News story released on 21 October 1948 (Volume 21, Release 163). - [A gravestone for the Vietnam War, dated December 31, 1971](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/unsell-the-war-vietnam-war-tombstone-1971/): A 1971 poster from the Committee to Help Unsell the War in New York shows a gravestone in snow inscribed "The Vietnam War / December 31, 1971" above the words "may it rest in peace." - [An Urgent Plea to Tenants, approved by the War Production Board and paid for by industry](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/urgent-plea-to-tenants-1941/): An Urgent Plea to Tenants, from the Salvage Division of the War Production Board and catalogued at 1941, asks apartment dwellers not to throw waste paper down the incinerator, lists military uses for it, and pictures nine items to save. - [Ed White's Gemini 4 spacewalk on a USIA fold-out for Beirut, 1965](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-astronaut-walks-in-space-poster-65-360-english-beirut-1965/): USIA poster 65-360, dated 30 July 1965 and distributed in English in Beirut, tells the story of Edward H. White II's 3 June 1965 spacewalk from Gemini-4 in photographs and his own quoted remarks, ending with his words "It's the saddest moment of my life." - [Back to Normalcy (1945), Berryman's holiday breakdown](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-berryman-back-to-normalcy-1945/): Back to Normalcy is a Jim Berryman cartoon for the Washington Evening Star, dated 3 September 1945. - [A New York publisher sells J. B. Priestley's Britain at War for 35 cents](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-britain-at-war-priestley-book-flyer-1939/): A Harper & Brothers flyer for J. B. Priestley's Britain at War, with a cover design signed E. McKnight Kauffer, sells a 118-page book with 46 photographs for 35 cents and ends in a tear-off order form. - [Death to Fascism! Liberty to the People!, E. McKnight Kauffer's Tito poster for a New York committee](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-death-to-fascism-liberty-to-the-people-tito-1944/): Death to Fascism! Liberty to the People! is a 1944 poster signed E. McKnight Kauffer for the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans in New York. - [Síntomas del Paludismo (1943), a malaria poster for Nicaragua printed by the GPO](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-health-sintomas-del-paludismo-nicaragua-1943/): Síntomas del Paludismo is a 1943 Spanish-language malaria poster of Nicaragua's Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Pública, signed Augusto and printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office. - [Jim Berryman's 1950 Labor Day cartoon on the holiday toll and Korean War casualties](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-holiday-toll-korean-war-casualties-1950/): Jim Berryman drew this Washington Evening Star cartoon for 5 September 1950. - [France Forever prints de Gaulle's line for French speakers in America](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-la-france-a-perdu-une-bataille-france-forever-1940/): A French-language poster that names France Forever in its footer prints "La France a perdu une bataille! Mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre!" over a facsimile signature of C. de Gaulle, with a winged sword-bearing figure on a blue-white-red field and a France Libre badge. - [Libertad de Palabra (1942), Alexey Brodovitch's cracked swastika](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-libertad-de-palabra-brodovitch-1942/): Libertad de Palabra is a 1942 Spanish-language poster by Alexey Brodovitch, published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Washington. - [Bombardeios Nazistas (c. 1943), a Portuguese-language photo poster from Washington](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-ociaa-bombardeios-nazistas-portuguese-1943/): Bombardeios Nazistas is a Portuguese-language photo poster published around 1943 by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Washington. - [El Enemigo de la Humanidad, a Spanish-language indictment of Japan from Washington](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-ociaa-el-enemigo-de-la-humanidad-spanish-1941/): El Enemigo de la Humanidad ("The Enemy of Humanity") is a Spanish-language poster published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Washington and dated 1941. - [Irmãos de Armas, a U.S. and a Brazilian soldier arm in arm on a Washington poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-ociaa-irmaos-de-armas-1944/): Irmãos de Armas (Brothers in Arms) is a Portuguese-language poster of about 1944 published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Washington. - [Labor Day 1942, Charles Alston's two workers and one shield](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-owi-alston-labor-day-1942/): Labor Day 1942 is an Office of War Information cartoon by Charles Alston. - [The Savior of the Darker Races (1942), Charles Alston's cartoon for the OWI](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-owi-savior-of-the-darker-races-1942/): The Savior of the Darker Races is an Office of War Information cartoon by Charles Alston dated August 22, 1942. - [Please post on bulletin board: the USIA's April 1965 case for Vietnam, printed for Manila](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-position-on-viet-nam-ppb-331-english-manila-1965/): The United States Position on Viet-Nam is a five-panel English sheet issued as a supplement to Free World magazine in April 1965 and filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, catalog date 23 April 1965. - ["America Will Build 60.000 War Planes" (1942), Roosevelt's targets on a red V](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-war-planes-60000-125000-roosevelt-1942/): A 1942 poster published by the United States of America frames a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt in a red V, under rows of aircraft and two production goals: 60,000 war planes in 1942 and 125,000 in 1943, over his facsimile signature (NAID 44268347). - [A Soviet joke about Goebbels, reprinted in America by Russian War Relief](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-what-is-an-aryan-1941/): A poster reproduced by Russian War Relief, Inc. from a 1941 Soviet war poster shows Joseph Goebbels as a snarling, tailed, mouse-like figure at a podium under the words "What is an 'Aryan'? He is handsome as Goebbels." - [Write to Russia (1943), Russian War Relief's letter campaign broadsheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/us-write-to-russia-russian-war-relief-1943/): Write to Russia is a 1943 broadsheet of Russian War Relief, Inc., a private American charity. - [Independence Hall on a 1955 Dutch-language U.S.A. poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/usa-poster-58a-independence-hall-dutch-1955/): A Dutch-language photo poster headed "U.S.A.," number 58a, filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 15 November 1955. - [The Lincoln Memorial on a 1952 American poster printed in Copenhagen](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/usa-poster-lincoln-memorial-danish-1952/): This black-and-white poster of the Lincoln Memorial was printed in Copenhagen by Dyva & Jeppesen for the U.S. Information Service and dated 1 January 1952 in the National Archives file. - [Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do! (1943), the mending couple](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/use-it-up-wear-it-out-make-it-do-1943/): Use It Up - Wear It Out - Make It Do! is OWI Poster No. 39, printed in 1943. - [A 48-page "Why Viet Nam" from the U.S. Embassy in London, October 1965](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/usis-why-vietnam-pamphlet-1965/): Why Viet Nam is a 48-page pamphlet issued by the United States Information Service at the American Embassy in London in October 1965. - ["My men refuse to go": the United States Servicemen's Fund poster of 1970](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/ussf-my-men-refuse-to-go-son-chan-valley-1970/): A 1970 poster by the United States Servicemen's Fund of Cambridge, Massachusetts, sets a quotation attributed to an unnamed lieutenant commanding Company A in the Son Chan Valley, "I'm sorry sir, but my men refuse to go," over a photograph of U.S. soldiers on the march. - [Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech on a Currier banner for Van Buren and Adams](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/van-buren-adams-free-soil-banner-1848/): N. Currier's 1848 banner print for the Free Soil ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams sets their portraits under an eagle and a "Temple of Liberty" with the slogan "Free Soil.-Free Labor.-Free Speech." - ["Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty...", a Free Soil cartoon of 1848](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/van-buren-washburn-altar-of-liberty-1848/): An 1848 Free Soil cartoon published under the name P. Smith, identified by the archive as N. Currier, sets Martin Van Buren and the Goddess of Liberty beside a monument to the founders, prints an extract from Daniel Washburn's Utica Convention speech, and fills the scene with speech balloons, one of which reads "Confound them nigger drivers". - [Việt-Cộng hãy coi chừng!!, a 1967 Army leaflet with a fire-breathing tank](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/viet-cong-beware-blackhorse-1967/): Việt-Cộng hãy coi chừng!! (Viet Cong Beware!) is a 1967 U.S. Army psychological operations leaflet, code 246-111-67, made for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the Blackhorse. - [The Virginia Argus answers the Mazzei charge, 16 September 1800](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/virginia-argus-letter-to-mazzei-1800/): The Richmond Virginia Argus of 16 September 1800, a Republican paper printed by Samuel Pleasants, Jr., reprinted the "Letter to Mazzei" from the Baltimore American with a framing note and "strictures" in Jefferson's defense, blaming "aristocratical" papers and "the enemies of liberty" for the charge. - [A wanted poster for the missing: VIVA's 1973 call for a full accounting](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/viva-wanted-missing-in-action-1973/): A 1973 poster by Voices in Vital America (VIVA) of Los Angeles is laid out as a frontier wanted notice. - [Voyage to Mars, a USIA sheet that announced Mariner IV before the flyby](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/voyage-to-mars-poster-english-1965/): Voyage to Mars is a U.S. Information Agency display sheet dated 20 June 1965, an English edition distributed in Beirut. - [Silence Means Security (1942), the War Department's WAAC poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/waac-silence-means-security-1942/): Silence means security is a 1942 War Department color photographic poster labeled a "WAAC" security poster. - [WAAC: This Is My War Too! (1943), Dan V. Smith's recruiting poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/waac-this-is-my-war-too-1943/): WAAC: This is my war too! is a 1943 recruiting poster for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps of the U.S. Army, signed Dan V. Smith. - [Weather Observer, Irving Cooper's Women's Army Corps poster and its 239 jobs](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/wacs-weather-observer-cooper-1944/): Woman's place in war: Weather Observer, Army Air Forces is a 1944 Women's Army Corps recruiting poster signed Irving Cooper. - [Progress of Iran No. 40: the Shah opens the Atoms for Peace exhibition](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/wall-news-poster-40-atoms-for-peace-exhibition-farsi-1957/): A Farsi wall newspaper, "Progress of Iran" No. 40, filed with the U.S. Information Agency's posters (catalog date June 1957). - [Wanted! For Murder: a 1942 poster that charged a talker with deaths at sea](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/wanted-for-murder-careless-talk/): Wanted! For Murder is a 1942 home-front security poster with a photograph by Victor Keppler. - [War Workers Need Rooms, Apartments, Homes (1942), a Washington housing appeal](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/war-workers-need-rooms-apartments-homes-1942/): War workers need rooms, apartments, homes is a 1942 poster of the Homes Registration Office in Washington, D.C. A photograph shows a man, a woman and a small girl with a doll sitting on a suitcase among luggage, over the line "Register your vacancies now" (NAID 513579). - ["This city is the next target," a US air-raid notice in Japanese](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/warning-next-target-japan-leaflet-1944/): This Japanese-language leaflet, dated 1944 in the archive, announces an air-raid in advance and tells residents that their city is the next target of the American air force. - [The Washington Mosque and Islamic Center, as shown to Indonesian readers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/washington-mosque-islamic-center-poster-indonesian-1956/): An Indonesian-language color photo poster of the Islamic Center and mosque in Washington, D.C., filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 11 December 1956. - [A nun's letter from Russia, reprinted as a poster in the Philippines](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-english-1950/): This English-language poster, held in the State Department and USIA Asia poster file and dated about 1950 to 1955, reprints a letter said to come from a German nun in a Russian labor camp. - [A two-week factory bulletin, later treated as a national order](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/we-can-do-it-1943/): J. Howard Miller's 1943 Westinghouse poster told employees to keep a production drive going for two weeks. - [We French Workers Warn You (1942), Ben Shahn's poster A-25](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/we-french-workers-warn-you-1942/): We French workers warn you... defeat means slavery, starvation, death is a 1942 War Production Board poster, A-25, signed Ben Shahn. - [We Have Gas... If You Have Legally Issued Coupons, an OPA card for the filling-station counter](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/we-have-gas-black-market-opa-1944/): We Have Gas... If You Have Legally Issued Coupons, Properly Endorsed is a 1944 Office of Price Administration card for filling stations. - [A 1976 handgun-control fundraising poster and the number it left out](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/we-need-handguns-hole-in-head-1976/): A 1976 poster from the Committee for the Study of Handgun Misuse in Chicago puts a printed hole beside a young woman's temple and asks for tax-deductible gifts to bring "handgun facts" to the public. - [We Violated the Regulations of the Food Administration (1918), a confession printed for display](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/we-violated-the-regulations-of-the-food-administration-1918/): A plain 1918 U.S. Food Administration card, all capitals and no picture, states that whoever displays it broke the agency's regulations and has "pledged full obedience in the future." - ["We shall not fail, we shall not tire, we shall not withdraw": Johnson's pledge in Vietnamese](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/we-will-not-fail-johnson-juspao-1968/): A 1968 JUSPAO poster pairs a portrait of President Lyndon B. Johnson with a three-line pledge in Vietnamese, "we shall not fail, we shall not tire, we shall not withdraw," and says the U.S. Government will forever honor his 7 April 1965 commitment to South Vietnam. - [What Do You Say, America? (1942), Hitler on storm troopers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/what-do-you-say-america-hitler-1942/): What do you say, America? is a 1942 poster issued by the Graphics Division of the Office of War Information, numbered OWI-P-2. - [What Nazis Think of German-Americans (1943), a bilingual OWI sheet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/what-nazis-think-of-german-americans-1943/): What Nazis Think of German-Americans is OWI Poster No. 48, printed in 1943. - [The 2024 White House card on "27 million women" and abortion bans](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/white-house-abortion-bans-27-million-2024/): A 2024 Biden White House social-media card states that more than 27 million women of reproductive age live in states with abortion bans in effect and calls on Congress to restore the protections of Roe. - [Uncle Sam and John Bull carry their "burden" uphill, Judge, April 1899](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/white-mans-burden-judge-1899/): Victor Gillam's cartoon for Judge of 1 April 1899 shows Uncle Sam and John Bull hauling baskets of racially caricatured colonial peoples up a rocky slope toward "Civilization," borrowing the title of Kipling's poem. - [Thomas Nast's This Is a White Man's Government, Harper's Weekly, 1868](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/white-mans-government-nast-harpers-weekly-1868/): Thomas Nast's cartoon in Harper's Weekly of 5 September 1868 shows three men joining hands over a Black man on the ground, with a school burning behind them. - ["Why have the Americans come?": the answer JUSPAO printed in a Vietnamese voice](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/why-have-americans-come-to-vietnam-1965-1969/): Sheet SP-1441, dated 1965 and printed by the JUSPAO printing section for the South Vietnamese government, answers its own question in the first person plural: Americans came to help "us" defeat a Communist invasion and to rebuild the country. - [Why Should I Work Any Harder? (1943), a Pittsburgh forge company's plant poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/why-should-i-work-any-harder-1943/): Why should I work any harder? I'm not fighting the war! is a 1943 poster copyrighted by Heppenstall Co., Steel Forgings, of Pittsburgh. - [The Battle of Britain (1943), one Army film frame](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/why-we-fight-battle-of-britain-1943/): The Battle of Britain is a 1943 frame from the fourth film in the US Army orientation series associated with Frank Capra. - [Women in the War: We Can't Win Without Them (1942)](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/women-in-the-war-we-cant-win-without-them-1942/): Women in the war, we can't win without them is a 1942 poster of the War Manpower Commission. - [There's Work to Be Done, Vernon Grant's poster for women workers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/women-work-to-be-done-war-to-be-won-now-1944/): There's work to be done and a war to be won... NOW! is a 1944 War Manpower Commission poster signed Vernon Grant for O.W.I. Small cartoon women in work clothes climb over giant letters spelling WOMEN, and readers are sent to the U.S. Employment Service (NAID 513682). - ["Paraiso ng Manggagawa": the East German uprising for Tagalog readers](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/workers-paradise-tagalog-1953/): A Tagalog photo sheet filed with U.S. Information Agency posters distributed in Asia, catalog date 30 July 1953. - [The World's Largest Prison, a 1951 State Department poster map of China](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/worlds-largest-prison-red-bastille-usia-poster-1951/): The World's Largest Prison is a Chinese-language poster from the State Department's international information program, dated 22 June 1951 in the archive file and catalogued as Red "Bastille." - [Tell It to Hanoi, the 1969 Young Americans for Freedom peace-sign poster](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/yaf-tell-it-to-hanoi-1969/): Tell It to Hanoi is a 1969 poster by Young Americans for Freedom of Washington, D.C. It prints four words over a large peace symbol and turns the antiwar movement's emblem toward the North Vietnamese government. - [Yesterday's Enemy Is Today's Friend, a US prisoner-of-war leaflet](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/yesterday-enemies-today-friends-leaflet-1944/): Leaflet 18-J-1, dated 1944, was printed in Japanese by the Psychological Warfare Branch of U.S. Army Forces, Pacific Area. - [Your Enemy the Jap, Navy industrial sheet, 1944](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/your-enemy-the-jap-navy-1944/): Your Enemy the Jap is a 1944 poster of the U.S. Navy, Industrial Incentive Division, signed Hotchkiss, USNR. - [Your Sugar Ration Is 2 lbs. per Month (1918), the Food Administration's "voluntary ration" card](https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/your-sugar-ration-is-2-lbs-per-month-1918/): A 1918 U.S. Food Administration shop card sets four sacks of sugar side by side, labeled America's voluntary ration of 2 lbs. a month against the compulsory rations of England, France and Italy. ## About Owner: FRAME Standard followed: https://llmbestpractices.com Updated: 2026-10-12 License: CC BY 4.0 for text; attribute "American Propaganda (americanpropaganda.org)". 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