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Face The Facts: If you desire a Coloured your neighbour, Vote Labour. If you are already burdoned with one, vote Tory. The Conservatives online in Office, will bring up to date the Ministry of Repatriation, to speed up the return of homegoing and expelled migrants. UK postwar poster
I Want You For US Army Nearest Recruiting Station. Poster US
Keep Calm And Carry On. Poster UK
Join, Or Die. Proto-Poster by Ben Franklin
Absinthe Robette. Poster by Henri Privat-Livemont
Houdini in Person Who Will Startle and Amaze: With a Lecture on ‘Fraud Mediums and Miracle Mongers’. Poster, cited Brad Meltzer’s Decoded s2e12: Houdini: Murdered? History 2012
Does Democracy Have You By the Throat? Anarchy is the Anecdote. Poster, cited Breaking the Spell, 1999
One Week Only – Beg, Friday Nov. 5th Count Basie And His New Band with Billie Holiday and Jas Rushing: At The 125th Street Apollo: America’s Smartest Colored Shows! Poster
Lecture: The South Pole Sir Ernest Shackleton Thursday November 21 at 8. The Chair will be taken by George T Lynam Esq. Poster
Norman Wisdom – The Successful Failure. Poster billing
This fantastic poster [Thatcher & Reagan]: She promised to follow him to the end of the Earth; he promised to organise it. Dominic Sandbrook, Strange Days – Cold War Britain III, BBC 2013
Bernhardt: The public went wild for the poster – as quickly as Gismonda was put up, she was taken down again. Stephen Smith, Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau I, BBC 2012
A good poster is a visual telegram. A M Cassandre, French illustrator
The walls were covered with huge Liberal and Tory posters, which showed in every line the contempt of those who published them for the intelligence of the working men to whom they were addressed. There was one Tory poster that represented the interior of a public house; in front of the bar, with a quart pot in his hand, a clay pipe in his mouth, and a load of tools on his back, stood a degraded-looking brute who represented the Tory ideal of what an Englishman should be … The Liberal posters were not quite so offensive. They were more cunning, more specious, more hypocritical and consequently more calculated to mislead and deceive the more intelligent of the voters. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly though the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quick enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. George Orwell, 1984 p1
On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. ibid.
Americans began to notice the posters almost overnight. Within weeks they were everywhere … America was suddenly at war. The Great War II, BBC 1964
How does it feel? To be on the other side of a Wanted poster? Fast Five 2011 starring Vin Diesel & Paul Walker & Jordana Brewster & Tyrese Gibson & Chris Bridges & Matt Schulze & Sung Kang & Dwayne Johnson et al, director Justin Lin, gangsta
A revolution is not a spectacle! There are no spectators! Everyone participates whether they know it or not. Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground, protest poster, 2002
Daddy, what did you do in the Great War? First World War recruiting poster
No price can be too high when honour and freedom are at stake. First World War recruiting poster