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title: Propaganda object
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/medium/object/
description: Browse all 21 items from propaganda object 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 object

21 objects, listed by date.

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- [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account.
- [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking)
- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus)
- [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Portrait medal of Mary I, legend MARIA I REG ANGL FRANC ET HIB FIDEI DEFENSATRIX](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mary-i-portrait-medal-da-trezzo-1555/) (England · 1555 · Transfer)
- [Medal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elizabeth-i-ark-medal-aftercast-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [New England Whig Convention badge, Bunker Hill, 10 September 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harrison-new-england-convention-badge-1840/) (United States · Sep 10, 1840 · Transfer)
- [Campaign envelope: Stephen A. Douglas and H. V. Johnson, with "I stand for the rights of the whole people" (S. Raynor, 1860)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/douglas-johnson-raynor-envelope-1860/) (United States · 1860 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [Gen. Winfield S. Hancock and Hon. William H. English (campaign handkerchief, Hugh McCrossan)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hancock-1880-portrait/) (United States · 1880 · Transfer)
- [John Bull chamber pot (Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/john-bull-potty-bordalo-1890/) (Kingdom of Portugal · 1890 · Name-calling). Content note: A chamber pot modelled as the personified figure of Britain (John Bull).
- [Bryan-Sewall campaign buttons, badges and card](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bryan-sewall-campaign-buttons-1896/) (United States · 1896 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- [Bryan-Sewall 'Free Coinage' portrait handkerchief](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bryan-sewall-free-coinage-handkerchief-1896/) (United States · 1896 · Transfer)
- [McKinley-Hobart campaign buttons, badges and ribbon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mckinley-hobart-campaign-buttons-1896/) (United States · 1896 · Transfer)
- [Karl Goetz "Lusitania" medal (Germany, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/goetz-lusitania-medal-1915/) (German Empire · 1915 · Transfer). Content note: German satirical medal showing a sinking passenger liner and Death selling tickets, made after the 1915 sinking that killed over 1,100 people.
- [Kõik NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimistele! (Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet Elections!): Tallinn sweet wrapper](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kompvekipaber-ulemnoukogu-valimised-1941/) (Soviet Union · 1941 · Bandwagon, Transfer)
- [Matchbox label, Japanese wartime propaganda in Malay: "Tentoe dapat kemenangan" (Victory will surely be won), No. 3 (c. 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-java-propaganda-matchbox-1943/) (Empire of Japan · 1943 · Name-calling)
- ["毛主席第七次检阅文化革命大军" (Chairman Mao reviews the great army of the Cultural Revolution for the seventh time), woven silk picture](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mao-zhou-lin-silk-picture-seventh-review-1966/) (China · 1966 · Transfer, Cult of personality)
- [Concrete dome bunker near Krujë, Albania (bunker programme, 1967 to 1986)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-bunker-kruja-1967-1986/) (Albania · 1967 · Fear appeal)
- [Выбери свободу! (Choose freedom!) T-shirt, Yeltsin campaign, 1996](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vote-or-lose-choose-freedom-tshirt-1996/) (Russia · 1996 · Glittering generalities)
