Propaganda Archives and Poster Collections

Another Poster for Peace This Website hosts a series of copyright-free posters designed for public use to promote peace during the war with Iraq. http://www.anotherposterforpeace.org/

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/

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

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.org/hila/collections/5441301.html

Posters American Style Hosted by the Smithsonian Art Museum, this site offers an expansive collection of posters from different eras in American history – some, but not all, propagandistic. http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/mainmenu.html

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

Propaganda and History. This rich page from PBS.com looks at different forms of propaganda across history. http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/propaganda.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. According to the page’s author: “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/

U.S. Navy Recruiting Posters. . From page description: “This page features a special selection [of] U.S. Navy Recruiting Poster images. It also provides links to other pages offering more extensive coverage of recruiting posters and similar forms of recruiting advertising.” http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/arttopic/pstr-rec/n-recpst.htm

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

War. This collection of sometimes racy posters centers around topics related to the war with Iraq. http://www.miniaturegigantic.com/gallery1.html

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