It’s easy to lose hours perusing the World Digital Library, stumbling across fascinating finds, clicking from place, to time, to topic, to type of item, to institution. Explore sketches of the Amistad captives, paintings of Peking opera characters, and illuminated manuscripts. Just a month ago in September 3 edition of What We’re Reading we linked to a blog post’s collection of 20 Fascinating Ancient Maps found in the online library. Inspired by this roundup, we’ve searched the World Digital Library, and come across a number of interesting war posters. See below.
If you’re interested in posters like these you may want to check out the pamphlets in the AHA’s GI Roundtable series. Between 1943 and 1945 the AHA prepared these pamphlets for the Army’s Division of Information and Education. It was the army’s intent that these pamphlets should “increase the effectiveness of the soldiers and officers as fighters during the war and as citizens after the war.” Check out all of the titles here, including “What Is Propaganda?” “How Far Should Government Control Radio?” “Do You Want Your Wife to Work after the War?” and more. It’s a fascinating look back.
This post first appeared on AHA Today.
