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title: Propaganda advertisement
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/medium/advertisement/
description: Browse all 20 items from propaganda advertisement in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
section: Collection
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![Illustration: a dossier collage of an evidence wall of pinned propaganda posters, leaflets and printed matter from many eras, with contact sheets and catalog labels.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-collection.jpg)

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# Propaganda advertisement

20 objects, listed by date.

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Medium: advertisement

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- [Pears' Soap: "The first step towards lightening the White Man's Burden" (Cosmopolitan advertisement, 1899)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pears-soap-white-mans-burden-1899/) (United Kingdom · 1899 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [The fleet protects the nation - Prudential Life Insurance protects the home (Puck centerfold, 1909)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/prudential-fleet-protects-nation-1909/) (United States · Feb 17, 1909 · Transfer)
- [Bulgaren-Held (Bulgarian Hero)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bulgaren-held-1915/) (German Empire · 1915 · Transfer)
- ['The Great American Play at Last!' The Birth of a Nation, Lyric Theatre advertisement (Allentown, 1916)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/birth-of-a-nation-lyric-ad-1916/) (United States · Mar 18, 1916 · Bandwagon). Content note: Advertisement for a film that presents the Ku Klux Klan as heroic rescuers; the ad promotes the 'wild ride of the Ku Klux Klans' as a spectacle.
- [The Black Stork (cinema advertisement)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/black-stork-1917/) (United States · Nov 1917 · Glittering generalities, Transfer, Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Advertises a film arguing that disabled newborns should be left to die, and calls them "defective infants".
- [Siegeszug durch Rumänien, Montanus-Markbücher Band 4 (Victory March through Romania)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/siegeszug-durch-rumaenien-montanus-1918/) (German Empire · 1918 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities)
- ['The Personality of E. C. McCullough & Co.': Manila printer's advertisement, The Philippine Review, 1920](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mccullough-personality-ad-philippine-review-1920/) (United States · Jan 1920 · Name-calling, Glittering generalities). Content note: Employer advertisement calling labour organisers 'agitators'.
- [Nanyang Brothers Tobacco advertisement: "Chinese people love Chinese goods" (Chinese Mail, Hong Kong, 1925)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nanyang-brothers-tobacco-chinese-love-chinese-goods-1925/) (British Hong Kong · Dec 22, 1925 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- [Guarding Vital Transportation Lines! Oldsmobile Service](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/guarding-vital-transportation-lines-oldsmobile-us-1942/) (United States · 1939 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [He Gives Wings to the B-25's... He Works for Victory on Elgin Time!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/he-gives-wings-to-the-b-25s-elgin-watches-us-1942/) (United States · 1939 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [This Fight Is a Family Affair! \[1\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-fight-is-a-family-affair-general-electric-us-1942/) (United States · 1939 · Plain folks, Identity fusion)
- [Britain at War - J. B. Priestley (Harper & Brothers book flyer)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-britain-at-war-priestley-book-flyer-1939/) (United States · 1939 · Testimonial)
- [Auxilio Social: Para que en España no haya un niño sin alegría, suscribe una ficha azul (cinema slide)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/auxilio-social-ficha-azul-slide-1940/) (Spain · 1940 · Glittering generalities)
- [Ayudad a la obra social de la Sección Femenina poniendo un sello de José Antonio en vuestras cartas (cinema slide)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seccion-femenina-sello-jose-antonio-slide-1942/) (Spain · 1942 · Transfer)
- ['Dangan kitte' (Bullet Stamps) war-savings lottery advertisement, back cover of Shashin Shūhō](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dangan-kitte-shashin-shuho-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Mar 31, 1943 · Transfer)
- [A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/frank-statement-1954/) (United States · Jan 4, 1954 · Bothsidesism, Card stacking)
- [Why should we help communists kill Americans?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mothers-crusade-help-communists-kill-americans-1966/) (United States · 1966 · Card stacking, Fear appeal)
- [6 million: "Dear God, not again." American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ackba-6-million-dear-god-not-again-1968/) (United States · 1968 · Fear appeal, Transfer). Content note: Photograph of eight emaciated, naked Biafran children from a 1968 fundraising advertisement; the text calls the war a genocide and compares it to the Holocaust (the sponsor's claims).
- [He needs a mind of his own ... he needs Radio Free Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rfe-mind-of-his-own-1970/) (United States · 1970 · Transfer, Narrative laundering)
- [The Real Cost — "Your Skin"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/real-cost-your-skin-2014/) (United States · Feb 4, 2014 · Fear appeal). Content note: Graphic body-horror imagery.
