Medium
Propaganda object
21 objects, listed by date.
Illustration, not an archive object
Achaemenid EmpireBehistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of AhuramazdaContent note
Neo Babylonian EmpireClay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples
Achaemenid EmpireTomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE
Neo Assyrian EmpireGypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II
Achaemenid EmpirePersepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE
Achaemenid EmpireEgyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE
EnglandPortrait medal of Mary I, legend MARIA I REG ANGL FRANC ET HIB FIDEI DEFENSATRIX
EnglandMedal 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)
United StatesNew England Whig Convention badge, Bunker Hill, 10 September 1840
United StatesCampaign envelope: Stephen A. Douglas and H. V. Johnson, with "I stand for the rights of the whole people" (S. Raynor, 1860)
United StatesGen. Winfield S. Hancock and Hon. William H. English (campaign handkerchief, Hugh McCrossan)
Kingdom of PortugalJohn Bull chamber pot (Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha)Content note
United StatesBryan-Sewall campaign buttons, badges and card
United StatesBryan-Sewall 'Free Coinage' portrait handkerchief
United StatesMcKinley-Hobart campaign buttons, badges and ribbon
German EmpireKarl Goetz "Lusitania" medal (Germany, 1915)Content note
Soviet UnionKõik NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimistele! (Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet Elections!): Tallinn sweet wrapper
Empire of JapanMatchbox label, Japanese wartime propaganda in Malay: "Tentoe dapat kemenangan" (Victory will surely be won), No. 3 (c. 1943)
China"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
AlbaniaConcrete dome bunker near Krujë, Albania (bunker programme, 1967 to 1986)
RussiaВыбери свободу! (Choose freedom!) T-shirt, Yeltsin campaign, 1996