Propaganda Archives and Poster Collections

Anti-War propaganda parodies: This site contains a collection of powerful, provocative, and sometimes disturbing collection of propaganda, altered photos, and anti-war images. http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blantiwarpics.htm

The Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China. International Institute of Social History. This exhibit features over 145 political posters that vividly demonstrate the impact of political climate on graphic representation. http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/

“Defeating Terror, Defending Freedom”. This on-line photoessay/montage from USinfo.state.gov offers a striking example of the use of visual rhetoric in contemporary propaganda. http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/terrornet/defend/defendflash.htm

FIRST CALL: American Posters of World War One from the collection of Roger N. Mohovich. Fairchild Memorial Gallery Georgetown University Library. This exhibit brings together many of the most powerful American propaganda posters generated during World War I. http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm

German Propaganda Archive. This collection of Nazi propaganda, hosted by the Calvin College websites contains links to visual sources including posters, postcards, and cartoons. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm

International Institute of Social History. This Website provides a list of Virtual Exhibitions on Propaganda Posters. http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/index.html

Iraq – Art of War – Leaflets. This site offers striking examples of contemporary propaganda by reproducing many of the leaflets (in English and Arabic) that were dropped on Iraq during 2003. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_art-of-war.htm

Leaflet Gallery. This site provides a collection of leaflets, in both English and Arabic, that were dropped on Iraq in 2003, searchable by the date of the drop. http://www.centcom.mil/galleries/leaflets/showleaflets.asp

Northwestern University Library World War II Posters. This searchable on-line collection contains more than 300 posters issued by the U.S. during World War II. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/

Poster Collection from the Hoover Archive. Of special interest on this site are the past exhibits from the exhibit pavilion, including the virtual exhibit on World War I and World War II posters. http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/hila/posters.htm

Powers of Persuasion. This on-line exhibition from the National Archives focuses on poster art from the second World War. http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_intro.html

The Propaganda Critic Video Gallery. This collection of video clips includes the 1950s classic “Duck and Cover” film as well “The Brink of Disaster,” a film in which a “revolutionary war hero travels through time to combat campus rebellion in the 1970s.” http://www.propagandacritic.com/gallery/index.html

The Propaganda Remix Project, by Micah Ian Wright. This site features historical posters modified to make visual arguments about current issues. http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html

Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages. International Institute of Social History. “This site is dedicated to the Chinese propaganda poster as it has been produced from 1949 till the present day [...] I’ve been collecting these Chinese political posters for many years now, and have brought together quite a nice collection of some 1,300 titles, spanning five decades of Chinese poster production.” http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/

Trenches on the Web: Posters from the Great War. Mike Iavarone has compiled this site containing World War I posters from a variety of countries, including Canada, Great Britain, Russia and the United States. http://www.worldwar1.com/posters.htm

The War on the Walls. This site, created by the Temple University Libraries, offers access to a digital exhibit to a range of posters from the first World War. http://exhibitions.library.temple.edu/ww1/index2.jsp