by Christie Joshi | Nov 4, 2020
In the image, “Bonds -which?” from Cesare of the NY Evening Post (1917), the propaganda poster depicts an image of Uncle Sam holding chains in one hand and a liberty bond in the other hand with a train moving in a desolate background. In 1917 when this image was first...
by Raynard Horvath | Mar 18, 2020
This poster was created in nineteen-nineteen by Howard Chandler Christy, and shows a blonde female who appears to be a citizen of the United States in a nursing gown. Behind her is an American flag and the words on top of the flag read The Spirit of America. Below the...
by Ashlin Miller | Mar 17, 2020
The source presented here, at first glance, is a simple photograph of a child from the 1900s. This photograph was taken by photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in 1913. Hine was a photographer during the Progressive Era who was known for documenting the lives of the...
by Rachel Cuevas | Mar 17, 2020
The image presented here shows a disheartened man attending to domestic chores since his wife is a suffragette, portraying the core of anti-suffrage thought. Anti-suffrage was a drive to turn away from the suffrage movement and found its place in many aspects and...
by Liam Cassidy | Mar 17, 2020
The 1918, Great War Era Propaganda Poster, “Don’t talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it–spies are listening” is an immaculate display depicting how widespread the effects of World War I was within the...