#war posters

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War Posters by Clarence Lawson Wood

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Al Dorne, a self taught artist and former boxer, was responsible for several dramatic anti-loose-talk posters for the War Department during WWII: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/21601/less-dangerous-than-careless-talk

Follow along throughout 2024 as we feature more #TheArtOfWar WWII posters from our collection.

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Food Propaganda Posters: From War-Time Rations to Post-War Indulgences 🍔🥩🥧

Food propaganda posters of World Wars I and II rallied the public around wartime efforts, such as home gardening and rationing. But did they shape our post-war diets? Let's explore.

Garden-to-Freezer Revolution 🍡

Victory Gardens, immortalized in posters like these, epitomized wartime self-sufficiency. The advent of post-war technology led to a surge in frozen foods, replacing these gardens with ads for TV dinners.

Meat-Centered Diet 🥩🍖

Wartime posters urged citizens to explore meat alternatives. Post-war advances in farming made meat more accessible and led to a meat-centered diet.

Tin Culture 🍱

Canning, vital during the wars for preserving homegrown produce, transformed into a culture of pre-packaged canned foods.

Sugar Surge 🍨🍭🍬

Rationing sugar was a wartime staple, but in the 1950s, sugary foods and drinks exploded onto the scene, illustrated by soda pop advertisements.

While food propaganda posters influenced wartime diets, the post-war era saw a drastic shift towards convenience and indulgence, as mirrored in the advertising of the time.

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[afflicted-astra]

i hate war but godDAMN did it make some BANGER posters

(realized they basically used the same art for the train lmao)

but why do all of these go so hard, like they have no good reason, i hate war but damn, railroads really are our first line of defense and the backbone of offense.

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Pearl Harbor Day 1942

In December 1942, many events and memorials marked the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant in New Brighton, artist Gene Hundredmark created this painting. Once finished, the painting was turned into a silk screen propaganda poster and distributed in support of the war effort. A commercial artist before the war, Hundredmark created many posters as part of the Ordnance Plant's art team. After the war's end, he opened the Gene Hundredmark School on Marquette Avenue, where he taught others the trades of poster art and silk screen printing.

Photo of Gene Hundredmark painting a poster reading "Avenge Pearl Harbor - Our Bullets Will Do It" from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

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#славаукраїні

[veshialles]

oh, speaking of Alberta’s history with Rat Control, check out this absolutely bonkers poster I just came across on the Alberta government website

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