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Books for Russia
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Poster promoting the 'Books for Russia' Russian War Relief campaign featuring a quote by Bennett Cerf, American writer and publisher. He co-founded Random House, and regularly made appearances on tele...ARTV05875
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'British war comforts fund Tel-Aviv: the AIF will hold a surf carnival display'
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Maker: Unknown [TEL-AVIV] : BRITISH WAR COMFORTS FUND, [N.D.]
A British War Comforts Fund poster, featuring both the Australian and Palestinian flags, advertising an AIF surf carnival in Tel-Aviv in which sportsmen from both countries were invited to participate...ARTV05013
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British weapons to defeat Hitler
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office LONDON : H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE, [N.D.] (READING : GREENSLADE & CO. (READING) LTD.) Greenslade & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting a tank with a palm tree behind it in the distance. The tank is firing. Two smaller depictions of tanks with an elephant in one, and a horse in the other, depi...ARTV02317
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Change over to a victory job
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts a black and white photograph of a woman in overalls wearing a headscarf. She leans over a table, clenching her right fist with an emploring glare out to the viewer, to "Change over to a victor...ARTV01060
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Coloured Diggers
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Maker: Albert, Tony
This four panelled painting explores the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognition felt by many following their...ART96531
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Comrades in arms
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office J Weiner Ltd
This poster was produced by the British Government to promote a 1942 exhibition 'Comrades in arms: Pictures of the Soviets at war'. The exhibition was part of a broader campaign to engender support fr...ARTV07481
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Control tower, Laloki Drome
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Maker: Dargie, William
Scene at Laloki Drome in Port Moresby. Dargie noted, "A peculiar native structure from which aircraft landing and taking off took their instructions. During an air raid, a large red flag was flown".ART23905
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Convoy Your Country to Victory: Buy Defence Bonds at Banks and Post Offices
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Hilder, Rowland National Savings Committee, London and Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh, Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast J. Weiner Ltd.
British Second World War poster promoting the sale of defence bonds. The poster depicts a British Merchant Navy convoy at sea, seen from the deck of a British warship. Two sailors stand on the deck, u...ARTV02080
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Depth charge, HMAS 'Swan'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
View from the rear deck of HMAS 'Swan' (1937-1962) showing a plume of water from an exploding depth charge in the ship's wake.ART22338
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Deutschland, Deutschland über alles Über Deutschland R.A.F. [Germany, Germany, above all over Germany RAF]
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner
Caricature of Hitler weeping amidst the ruins of a German city. Graffiti on the wall to his right states ' Wir Kapitulieren nie' which translates as ' We never surrender' and the flag of the third Rei...ART96184.004
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Don't let that shadow touch them: Buy war bonds
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Maker: Smith, Lawrence Beall US Government Printing Office
Second World War poster issued by the U.S Treasury in 1942. It's design by Lawrence B. Smith is an example of dramatic storytelling through a single emotive image aimed at galvanising support for the ...ARTV05526
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Full Ahead: Production
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Maker: Keely, Patrick Cokayne The Admiralty H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War poster encouraging war production to be increased to 'full speed'. The poster depicts a sailor talking down a speaking tube connected to traditional ships throttle lever. On t...ARTV02085
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HMAS 'Ipswich'
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Maker: McBryde, John
HMAS 'Ipswich' and a freighter in the Persian Gulf. 'Ipswich' often acted as a convoy ship in this region. This image depicts the 'Ipswich' en route, leaving behind the hills in the background.ART92753
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Indie moet vrij!... [Indie must be free..]
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Maker: Keely, Patrick Cokayne Dutch Government James Haworth & Brother
This poster’s message translates to 'Indie must be free! Work and fight for it!' Designed by Pat Keely and published by the Dutch Government in exile in London. It was distributed in the liberated sou...ARTV10465
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Join Membership 2/-
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Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne]
Australian Red Cross Society membership recruitment poster designed by Edith Grieve. Image and text are integrated. In the foreground are (l-r) a girl, woman and man all indicating to membership badge...ARTV02496
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Join the Crusade: Buy National Savings Certificates
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Maker: Unknown National Savings Committee, London and Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast H.M. Stationery Office
The crusades were a series of medieval military expeditions in the middle ages to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. They were, in essence, a fight for what was believed to be the forces of good...ARTV02081
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Keep ‘Em Rolling! [Artillery]
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Maker: Lionni, Leo
One of a series of patriotic work incentive posters based on the structure of the American flag commissioned by the United States Government’s Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management i...AWM2017.916.15
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Keep them flying!
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy RAAF Publications Unit Unknown
This is a recruiting poster for the WAAAF, with an image of a uniformed WAAAF in the centre. The poster has the slogan 'Keep them flying! There's a job for you in the WAAAF' printed in red. In a grey ...ARTV08046
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Keep Them Flying!
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy RAAF Publications Unit Unknown
This is a recruiting poster for the WAAAF, with an image of a uniformed WAAAF in the centre. The poster has the slogan 'Keep them flying! There's a job for you in the WAAAF' printed in red. In a grey ...ARTV01114
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Make the Navy your career
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Maker: Unknown
An Australian Poster depicting two Navy battleships at sea, with a plane flying above them and an Australian naval flag.ARTV00209
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March is Red Cross month
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Maker: Unknown Australian Red Cross Society
The Australian Red Cross was established in 1923 and is guided by the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It is a secular, neutral, impartial and independe...ARTV02163
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Meet Canada
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Maker: Ministry of Information
This poster was created in 1944 by the British Ministry of Information. The poster was created to promote the exhibition "Meet Canada" produced by the Royal British Museum. The exhibition is documente...ARTV02200
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Not titled, TASS No. 756, 23 June 1943
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Maker: Kukryniksy Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS)
A Russian propaganda poster created under the TASS news agency, this image depicts the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini sitting in a boot, representing Italy, that is attached to a damaged hot air ball...ARTV07494
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Osiaini Mohikanie [The old Glory]
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner
A darkly humorous portrait of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler adrift at sea in a leaky barrel. A miserable and bedraggled Hitler stares at the viewer, his uniform torn and missing all its finery. Hi...ART96184.002
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Remember Dec 7th...
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Maker: Saalburg, Allen Russell Office of War Information US Government Printing Office
Issued by the Office of War Information this emotive design, featuring a tattered US Flag flying amidst smoke from the burning Naval Base, was one of the first posters released to galvanize Americans ...ARTV02546
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Rush British arms to Russian hands...
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Maker: Nikolai Radlov Ministry of Supply Unknown
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Supply in 1941. It was produced for display in factories to encourage increased production in support of the entry of the Soviet Union on the ...ARTV02309
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"Sons of the Anzacs"
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth government Luxton & Hooper
Australian promotional poster for the film "Sons of the ANZACS". Image positioned on the left is of an Australian Airman, a Sailor carrying a torpedo and a bare chested Australian Soldier carrying his...ARTV09572
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Thanksgiving service in celebration of Victory in Europe held on the steps of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 9 May 1945
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
On the steps of the Australian War Memorial under an Autumn sky a thanksgiving service in celebration of the Victory in Europe is held. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester atten...ART25669
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The flag in the room
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Maker: Smith, Grace Cossington
A daughter of English immigrants, Cossington Smith had no sympathy for the anti-conscriptionists or an Australian nationalism that posed itself against England. Yet the break she made with conventiona...ART90721
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The navy thanks you
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Maker: Keely, Patrick Cokayne The Admiralty Haycock Press
The British Admiralty published this poster in 1943, using artwork by British artist Pat Keely. The poster depicts a ship being launched from a boatyard along specially-built tracks. In the foreground...ARTV02281
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These colours don't run
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Maker: Unknown Department of Munitions Unknown
This Australian Second World War poster was created to inspire patriotic sentiment. The poster depicts the Australian red ensign, largely recognised as equal to the now official blue ensign, during th...ARTV02273
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Together
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Maker: Unknown Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicts soldiers from the British Commonwealth of Nations marching together, shouldered rifles, with a union jack flag in the background. The soldiers are from left to...ARTV02185
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Truce at Tobruk
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Depicts the truce between the Germans and Australians at Tobruk on 4 August 1941 which enable each side to venture out into no man's land and collect their dead and wounded. The Australian soldier hol...ART26654
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United
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Maker: Ragan, Leslie Darrell Office of War Information U.S. Government Printing Office
A United Nations poster by Leslie Ragan, depicts flags of the member states of the United Nations rising out of battle clouds and the burning horizon under the banner 'UNITED'. Below the combined forc...ARTV05855
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United we are strong...United we will win
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Maker: Koerner, Henry U S Government printing office
United States Second World War poster by Henry Keorner depicts the flags of the allied nations adorning several firing barrels. This is one of many propaganda posters that stress the strength of the a...ARTV05861
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United we win
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Maker: Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information U.S. Government Printing Office
Issued by the United States War Manpower Commission this poster promotes racial unity as a way to ensure that the Country will win the war. It appeals to the patriotism of the viewer with the photogra...ARTV05919
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US flag and cemetery, Lake Sentani, Dutch New Guinea
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Maker: Green, Douglas Allan
The United States flag raised next to a small cemetery, hills in the background, Lake Sentani, Sentani, Dutch New Guinea. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts ProgramART92725
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Victory! TASS No. 1243, May 12 1945
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Maker: Denisovskii, Nikolai Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS)
Large, hand stencilled poster produced by the Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) propaganda studio in Moscow at the end of the Second World War. This poster was designed and distributed app...ARTV10282
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World War II Australia-Japan
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Maker: Gende, Simon
Simon Gende is a contemporary artist from Papua New Guinea (PNG) whose practice focuses on international events and the social and political issues that frame them. This is a commemorative painting o...ART93025
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Youth the foundation for the future
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Maker: Northfield, James Australian Red Cross Society Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne]
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster depicts a young man and woman in the foreground, set against a rustic landscape. The man holds a Red Cross flag. The poster appeals for people ...ARTV01165