“Joe Dope has a way that’s unique of toting a gun ‘cross a creek” – US poster advising “don’t be a dope” and to handle equipment right. USA, Circa 1943.
Bulgaria and Turkey, beaten and fleeing, ask their ally Germany for help, who replies, “I’m in the same trouble” – USA, September 24th, 1918.
“Outraged Dad Against Drugs” – ‘Dear Old Dad’ warns gas station customers about drug use. USA, August 15th, 2021
«The Motherland is in danger. The blood we have shed demands a war to victory. Fellow soldiers, get into the trenches immediately. Return Lenin to Wilhelm (German Emperor)!» A pro-war and anti-Lenin protest after The February Revolution in Russia, April 1917.
“It’s a good act but it’s hard on the spectators” – Hitler balancing the world on the tip of a rifle balanced on the tip of his nose as nervous spectators including Uncle Sam, John Bull, and a caricature of France watch. USA, August 20th, 1939.
“MOTHERS LOOK OUT FOR YOUR CHILDREN!” This poster was widely circulated in Philadelphia in 1839 by the canal, steamboat, toll road, and stagecoach people who organized to restrict railroad development.
“Are we the Barbarians?” German poster showing superior aspects of their society compared to England and France. From top to bottom: Annual social security benefits, illiteracy rate, expenditure on education, book production, Nobel Prizes, and patents. Germany, 1916.
A mural of George H.W. Bush on the floor of Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad that was installed sometime shortly after the end of the Gulf War. The idea was that nobody would be able to get into the hotel – where most foreign visitors to Iraq stayed in the 1990s – without having to step on Bush’s face.
”EASTER EVENING” – French cartoon (”L’Assiette au beurre” magazine, artist: Vaclav Hradecky) alluding to the Kishinev pogrom, June 6, 1903
”- Honestly, boys, it’s smarter to settle the Sudeten problem this way than — This way!” – American cartoon (artist: Ray Bailey) commenting on the Munich Agreement, September 1938
”His Man in Havana” – anti-Castro cartoon (artist: Bruce Alexander Russell) published after the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, United States, April 1961
Iraqi propaganda of a vicious USA grabbing oil and terrorizing the world with bombs. Invasion of Iraq, April 2003.
“A handful of Palestine – The genuine products of the wine growing colonists of Palestine” Palwin Richon-le-Zion Brands (Alcohol, 1922)
“In the trenches. Behold I am with you always.” Jesus stands guard by German soldiers. Germany, circa 1918.
“Please! Please come back. Don’t die, it’s terrible to be dead! We need each other. It would be awful if you’re crippled. I wouldn’t know what to do if you were.” Psychological warfare pamphlet dropped over US troops in New Guinea. Japan, 1944.
”HOPING EACH DRINK WILL QUIET HIM, BUT IT ONLY SEEMS TO MAKE HIM WORSE” – American cartoon (”The Chicago Tribune”, artist: Carey Cassius Orr) commenting on the British policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, September 22, 1938
”Modern American politics” – American cartoon (”Minneapolis Star Tribune”, artist: Scott Long) published before the 1976 presidential election, October 1976
”So they want us to recognize them as a legitimate nation…” – American cartoon (”The Louisville Courier-Journal”, artist: Nick Anderson) mocking the opponents of the Oslo I Accord, September 1993
‘The Führer promised … and the Führer delivered!’ — Soviet cartoon from the Second World War (1942) showing Hitler telling his troops ‘You will all receive living space in the East!’ with the lower panel showing the soldiers’ graves in the Soviet Union. Artist: Boris Efimov.
”NUREMBERG” – British cartoon (”The Evening Standard”, artist: David Low) published at the beginning of the Nuremberg trials, November 1945
”Come to Mum, Luv…” – American cartoon (”The Baltimore Sun”) commenting on Margaret Thatcher’s appointment as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, May 1979
”THE LEANING TOWER” – American cartoon (”The Chicago Tribune”, artist: Carl Somdal) alluding to Operation Valkyrie, July 25, 1944
”[Soviet Bear to the American Bald Eagle:] So I’m an odd-looking Arab, am I? Well, I must say, you certainly don’t look Jewish!” – American cartoon (”The Louisville Courier-Journal”, artist: Hugh Haynie) published during the Yom Kippur War, October 12, 1973
“He Had a Dream” – Cartoon made 3 days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. April 7th, 1968.
‘The cover-up’ — American anti-communist cartoon (1955) showing Socialism and Communism hiding behind the mask of Liberalism.
“Massacre at Fort Mimms” Native Americans kill American military during the “Massacre at Fort Mimms.” Circa 1813.
Pamphlet warning soldiers of sexually transmitted diseases by getting involved with prostitutes. It was published by the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and approved by the War Department. USA, 1918.
“Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas” – Nazis burning books in front of an oversized book emblazoned with “Books cannot be killed by fire” quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., USA., 1942.
“Colored Orphan Asylum” Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum depicting the suffering faced by the black children and the destitute of Memphis. 1866.
“Everybody a hero! Either (we hold) the Piave or let all of us get killed!” Italian graffiti during the second battle of the Piave river, 1918
“Son of Eve” Political cartoon that compares humanity’s use of the atomic bomb to the Biblical story of the fall of Adam and Eve. August 8th, 1945.
“Does it look as bad as this?” A “Child Employer” pulling an infant from its crib while the “Textile Conference” looks in through the window at them. The “Child Employer” states, “You’re old enough to be workin’ sonny!” 1907.
William Hogarth’s 1748 painting “The Gates of Calais” or “O, the Roast Beef of Old England” makes the case that submitting to royal and papal tyranny, like Frenchmen and Jacobites, leads to poverty and degradation
“HOME!” Here, a man returns home to find his two sad daughters deserted by their mother who is out campaigning for women’s suffrage. Circa 1900.
Chieu Hoi leaflet with weeping mother imagining son killed in fighting, South Vietnamese psychological warfare poster. 1967.
Antisemitic propaganda flyer comparing Jews to diseases. It reads “Tuberculosis Syphilis Cancer are curable … It is necessary to finish the biggest curse: The Jew!” Circa 1942.
“The Decent Jew” A Jew politely asking for room on the bench, after which he shoves the previous inhabitant off. The poem notes that Jews behave the same way in other situations. 1936.
«The escalation of the Vietnam War (Up – «To Vietnam», Down – «From Vietnam»)» A Soviet anti-American poster during the Vietnam War, 1969.
