Catania, Sicily: reading Allied news under U.S. and British flags, 1943
Sicilians in Catania study a pillar of Allied news photographs above U.S. and British flags, with a poster headed La Liberta in the window. The official caption says the news was of particular interest because it "had been denied them during the Fascist years": the photograph was itself made for Allied publicity.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- September 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Office of War Information (photograph); Allied Psychological Warfare Branch display
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Media and information, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; LOC: no known restrictions)
Nick Parrino, U.S. Office of War Information, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-039937-E.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
LA LIBERTA [illegible — captions beneath the photographs pinned to the display pillar]
LIBERTY [illegible]
'LA LIBERTA' is the only clearly legible text, printed on a poster visible through the window behind the group. The pillar of Allied news photographs on the left carries typed or printed captions under each photo, but they are too small and low-resolution in this service JPEG to read.
