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Soviet propaganda poster, 1920s Ukrainian cooperative design by Balavanis: Lenin in profile in a red star ringed by wheat sheaves

Soviet Propaganda Posters: How the USSR Designe...

A Soviet poster from the 1920s and one from the 1970s can look as though they came from different countries. In a sense, they did. Between them sits one of...

Soviet Propaganda Posters: How the USSR Designe...

A Soviet poster from the 1920s and one from the 1970s can look as though they came from different countries. In a sense, they did. Between them sits one of...

1916 Strobridge poster of Houdini upside down in the Water Torture Cell, reproduced by Vintage Poster Archives and framed in a room setting

100 years since Houdini: the poster that sold t...

Houdini died in Detroit on Halloween 1926. The Strobridge poster for his Water Torture Cell, printed a decade earlier, is still doing the job it was made for.

100 years since Houdini: the poster that sold t...

Houdini died in Detroit on Halloween 1926. The Strobridge poster for his Water Torture Cell, printed a decade earlier, is still doing the job it was made for.

The 1939 British wartime poster Freedom Is In Peril, Defend It With All Your Might, cream capitals and a crown on red, framed on a wall in a room setting.

WW2 Propaganda Posters: The Campaign Scrapped i...

Britain opened the war with a poster campaign so condescending it was scrapped in four weeks. America's own writers walked out in 1943 over the same argument. Both governments had...

WW2 Propaganda Posters: The Campaign Scrapped i...

Britain opened the war with a poster campaign so condescending it was scrapped in four weeks. America's own writers walked out in 1943 over the same argument. Both governments had...

Grover George, Supreme Master of Magic: restored Owl and Moon vintage magic poster, cobalt blue with owl and red devils

George the Supreme Master of Magic: The Posters...

A magician from Ohio ordered four posters for the tour that was going to make him. Howard Thurston made sure the tour never happened. The posters were never pasted up,...

George the Supreme Master of Magic: The Posters...

A magician from Ohio ordered four posters for the tour that was going to make him. Howard Thurston made sure the tour never happened. The posters were never pasted up,...

Loose Lips Sink Ships: The Poster That Started in a Bar

Loose Lips Sink Ships: The Poster That Started ...

The most famous careless-talk poster in history was not made by a government. It was made by a whisky company. And the phrase everyone remembers is not quite what the...

Loose Lips Sink Ships: The Poster That Started ...

The most famous careless-talk poster in history was not made by a government. It was made by a whisky company. And the phrase everyone remembers is not quite what the...

Soviet Cosmonautics Day 1961 Gagarin propaganda poster, helmet and rocket

Yuri Gagarin and the Posters That Sold the Sovi...

For once, the propaganda department barely needed to exaggerate. On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space. The Soviet Union had acquired something...

Yuri Gagarin and the Posters That Sold the Sovi...

For once, the propaganda department barely needed to exaggerate. On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space. The Soviet Union had acquired something...