Propaganda posters

A mix of 20th century American and non-American sources, mostly focused on wartime environments

In-group appeals

• I Want You for the Navy (Howard Chandler Christy via the Pritzker Military Museum) – the commentary on this page focuses on the artwork; instead, think about the war effort.
• Together (presumably a British Commonwealth military recruiting poster circa WW2) – If I'm not mistaken, I'm seeing troops from Canada, Australia, the British West Indies, India, South Africa or Southern Rhodesia...all marching under a British flag. Attempts to build unity / in-group membership among diverse troops.
• This man is your friend. He fights for FREEDOM (Russian). (United States Office of Facts and Figures, 1942, via Univ of North Texas) – There were a whole series of these posters featuring different ethnic groups – Serbs, Croats, etc. The goal was to get US troops to view foreign allies (especially non-English-speaking ones?) as in-group members in the fight against fascism. Explore this archive for more of these, plus other wartime posters.
• Poland: First to Fight! (Żuławski, 1939 via Wikimedia Commons) – British poster to build affinity with Poles. (The Polish government in exile was based in Great Britain, and many Poles fought alongside the British throughout the war)
• China: First to Fight! (Sawyer via Wikimedia Commons) – American propaganda poster. Note the depiction of a Chinese family, not just soldiers or nationalist symbols.

Demonization of out-groups / undesirables

• The War Goal of World Plutocracy: Germany Must Die / Das Kriegsziel der Weltplutokratie: Deutschland Muss Sterben (Nazi pamphlet via Amazon.com) – This is a re-print of an anti-Semitic Nazi pamphlet in the original German plus an English translation. I'm fairly sure this is an example of a publication that is banned in Germany being kept alive through outside sources. 
• She May Look Clean (VD graphic, 1940 via NIH.gov) – If you can make the message more abstract: the goal here is to turn an in-group member (a friendly woman) into an out-group member (disease carrier) 
• Juke Joint Sniper (Feree, 1942 via NIH.gov) – Further demonization of women. Faaaaaantastic. Here she's transformed into an actively hostile out-group member (a sniper? Really??!) 
• What are YOU Going to Do About It? (US Army, 1944 via Wikimedia) – making an out-group even more objectionable

Mixed 

• WW2 PROPAGANDA: WAR OF WORDS Part 2 Nazi Propaganda (via personal blog about Polish military history) – article and multiple illustrations of Nazi's in-group propaganda, out-group demonization. Given contemporary politics in Poland, I am starting to wonder about this blogger, but I really don't know enough about the context to reach a conclusion.
• 15 Interesting Cold War Vintage Ads (Oddee.com) – this page has some of my absolute favorites: Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks? (from ScotTissue Towels), Milk...new weapon of Democracy! (Douglas Aircraft), The Quiet War (Young & Rubicam), Communism and Twisted Education (from Canadair – what did teachers ever do to you, Canadair?!?!?), and Mutual of Omaha's How to Survive an Atomic Bomb.
• Maximum meaning, minimum means (Syson via History Girls blog) – profile of graphic designer Abram Games. Has multiple samples of his work, across a range of topics. Useful source, given the attention to his process and reasoning. This is an instructional designer, designing for affective outcomes. What are his design principles? 
• Because it's topical: Here's an article about Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and his wartime propaganda cartoons: Dr. Seuss Propaganda: 9 Suprising World War II Propaganda Cartoons Drawn by the Famous Artist (Christopher, via HistoryCollection.com). Many are quite clever, at least one is very progressive, and the anti-Japanese ones are deeply, deeply racist. I know Geisel regretted these after the war; I wonder what he thought of them at the time?