The glory of War

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An ongoing project at the Colorado State Archives has been to restore old WWII posters and then scan them so they become preserved. There are many great ones and they were often rather BIG (so, I've obviously re-sized them here), but check it out.
Didn't war sound better 60 years ago?



And the lil' lady back home can carry her own bags, imagine that:





Where this kind of male body wasn't gay art



I love how this poster make it sound like WAC (Women Army Corps) are only standing around and watching the soldiers fight, with beautiful troubled movie-star faces!



This one is hilarious! Look down to the right and see the little picture of Hitler, and how you can "Eat to Beat the Devil"



Silly woman, stop bothering me! ("where's the meat?" had such obvious dirty associations for me,haha)



THIS is what the meat is saved for!



And everyone has to buckle down



There are things you can do with your slender little hands! Like this:



And this:



And this:


Also, the army needs CANS:


So they can do THIS:


And THIS:


These guys are not kidding around...


little missy!


Finally good for something!



Colorado did their best


to uphold the picture


A classical War-Fund poster


Veterans must not be forgotten either


Another reminder


And all the War-releif posters to benefit allied or victimized countries, most of them very dramatic!




Often portrayed soldier and child, of any ethnicity




Or just children


Mother & child (I find the visigoth text type on this one pretty ironic!)


Jeez, the poles are on march evidently


And the poor Russian soldier is all alone


This type of aesthetic motif was apparently not invented by the Communists, even though they used it often enough

Comments

[elenuial.livejournal.com]

Propaganda tactics are always amazing. Though what's interesting to me is how much more efficient the wartime domestic economy was: taking what is normally waste and turning it into munitions, etc.

And I love the "There's no black market! I promise!" posters. Seriously.

Not to belabor the obvious, but I also love how there's only two non-white guys in the posters: one for the Chinese, and one black dude in the corner of a poster.

Thanks for sharing these! :)

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

The domestic economy aspect hit me too!
What if we could live a little more today, as we did in war-time, we probably wouldn't be in such a mess on some levels.

Yeah, the anti-black market ones are hilarious! And it seems the concept for raising war-money overall in those days was to show blond children/men/women in DANGER. How disturbingly Aryan.