United War Work Campaign, Inc.; Book donations; Books; American soldier; Reading; Soldiers - United States; Savings bonds; World War, 1914-1918
A soldier holding a book and calling out, and a sailor reading. Poster designed by J. Sheridan for the Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity.
Reading; American soldier; Soldiers - United States; Trenches; World War, 1914-1918 - Libraries; World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - United States
A soldier moving from the trenches to a city by means of a bridge of books. Poster created by Dan Smith for the American Library Association. Printed Baltimore; New York: Thomsen-Ellis Company.
Posters, Soviet; World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship; World Federation of Democratic Youth; Cuba
Promotional poster from the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students, an international event organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth, held in Havana, Cuba in 1978.
Beneath the national emblem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the image of a hand cradling a deer beside a lake and trees is the text from Article 67 of the USSR Constitution which reads, "Citizens of the USSR are obliged to protect...
Posters, Soviet; Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; Sea-power; Navies; Emblems, National
Promoting the Soviet navy, this poster contains the slogan, "We protect peace and properity of our country" and the following images: a red star, the hammer and sickle, a seaman and a flotilla of warships.
Posters, Soviet; Rockets (Aeronautics); New York (N.Y.); Neutron bomb; Threats
Poster decries United States threat of nuclear bomb use as protection of its freedom from communism. The central image is of papers skewered by a bomb labeled, "Made in USA". The top paper is labeled, "Right for life". The New York skyline,...
Posters, Soviet; Rainbow; Books in art; Flags; Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
The СЭВ, or Comecon, was an economic organisation under leadership of the Soviet Union comprised of the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world. Poster depicts a book with the words,...
Celebrating the day of railroad workers, the poster depicts trains and a conductor. Written below, in essence, is "congratulations to the workers of the iron roads!"
The Baikal-Amur Magistral (BAM) is a broad gauge railway line in Russia, traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. The BAM was built as a strategic alternative route to the Trans-Siberian Railway, especially along the vulnerable...
Posters, Soviet; Peace; Ideology; Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924
A globe with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics highlighted in white and a red star over Moscow is encircled by a ribbon with the word "peace" in multiple languages.
The Labor exchange of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is surrounded by the unemployed masses. It is depicted as the central solution with a tag-line that says, in effect, in well developed capitalistic states more than 16 million people...
Poster depicts the Kremlin in Red Square and other buildings from Moscow. Written in a banner at the bottom of the poster, "Motherhood of October", a reference to the October Revolution.
A quotation from Brezhnev appears below several Soviet flags. In essence, Brezhnev says that the Soviet Union was the first on the planet earth to develop a socialistic society and the first to develop comunism.
Poster signifying the unity of Russians with Bulgarian volunteers against the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 and 1878. At center is the Shipka Memorial, a memorial to those who died for the liberation of Bulgaria during the...
Posters, Soviet; Factories in art; Factories; Industries
Leonid I. Brezhnev declared the slogan "Plan of Quality and Efficiency" for the Tenth Five-Year Plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which covered 1976-1981. An emphasis was placed on the technical refurbishment industry for this...
In reference to an old Russian song, the poster lists the collective social and economic rights recognized by the Soviet Constitution such as the rights to work, rest and leisure, health protection, care in old age and sickness, housing, education,...
