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 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...
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!"
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,...
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; 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.
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; 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.
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.
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.
