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title: Propaganda signs and banners
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/medium/sign-banner/
description: Browse all 85 items from propaganda signs and banners in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
section: Collection
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# Propaganda signs and banners

85 objects, listed by date.

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- [Campaign flag banner, "For President John Bell. For Vice President Edward Everett" (H. C. Howard, 1860)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bell-everett-flag-banner-howard-1860/) (United States · 1860 · Transfer)
- [Proof for a flag campaign banner for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (H. C. Howard, 1860)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/breckinridge-lane-flag-banner-proof-howard-1860/) (United States · 1860 · Transfer)
- [Flag campaign banner for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson (H. C. Howard, 1860)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/douglas-johnson-flag-banner-proof-howard-1860/) (United States · 1860 · Transfer)
- [Campaign flag banner, "For President Abram Lincoln. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin" (H. C. Howard, 1860)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lincoln-hamlin-flag-banner-howard-1860/) (United States · 1860 · Transfer)
- [Grand National Liberal Republican banner for 1872](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-national-liberal-republican-banner-1872/) (United States · 1872 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ['MUSSOLINI HA SEMPRE RAGIONE' in giant letters on an embankment, as printed in L'Illustration, April 1935](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mussolini-ha-sempre-ragione-1935/) (Fascist Italy · Apr 8, 1935 · Identity fusion)
- [Mit dem Stürmer gegen Juda (Der Stürmer display case, Worms)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stuermerkasten-worms-1935/) (Nazi Germany · Aug 1935 · Scapegoating). Content note: Anti-Jewish display case: banners 'Mit dem Stürmer gegen Juda' and 'Die Juden sind unser Unglück' with a caricature, shown whole.
- [Faded wall slogan 'Molti nemici molto onore' signed Mussolini, Ortygia (Syracuse)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/molti-nemici-molto-onore-siracusa-wall-slogan/) (Fascist Italy · 1936 · Glittering generalities)
- [Marble plaque quoting Mussolini's 9 May 1936 empire speech, Catania](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/il-popolo-italiano-ha-creato-limpero-catania-1936/) (Fascist Italy · May 1936 · Glittering generalities)
- [Gegen Hunger und Kälte: Opfere auch Du zum W.H.W. (Nuremberg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/whw-werbetafel-nuernberg-1936/) (Nazi Germany · Dec 1936 · Bandwagon). Content note: Winterhilfswerk donation board reading 'Gegen Hunger und Kälte', Nuremberg, 1936.
- [Vakuutusyhtiöt ovat jo merkinneet viidenneksen lainasta (The Insurance Companies Have Already Subscribed a Fifth of the Loan): Finnish loan board on a truck](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-kansanlaina-et-ehdi-mukaan-1939/) (Finland · 1939 · Bandwagon)
- [Kansanlaina on maamme varmuusvahti! (The People's Loan Is Our Country's Safeguard!): Finnish loan board on a truck](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-kansanlaina-varmuusvahti-1939/) (Finland · 1939 · Transfer)
- [Pourquoi mourir pour l'Angleterre? (German propaganda banners, western front)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pourquoi-mourir-pour-langleterre-banners-1940/) (Nazi Germany · 1940 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal). Content note: Photograph of a child in a Wehrmacht uniform being decorated in the last weeks of the war.
- ['Zeitaku wa teki da!' (Luxury Is the Enemy!) street sign, Tokyo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/luxury-is-the-enemy-sign-1940/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 1, 1940 · Semantic hijacking, Identity fusion)
- [Painted wall sign with Jawi inscription and Japanese soldier, Kuching, Sarawak (photographed 14 September 1945)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-sign-kuching-sarawak-1941/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 1941 · Transfer)
- ['I am an American' sign in the window of the Wanto Co. store, Oakland](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-am-an-american-store-sign-oakland-1942/) (United States · Mar 1942 · Transfer)
- ["…gegen die amerikanischen Kriegsvorbereitungen": banner on a congress hall, Rössing photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-congress-hall-banner-american-war-preparations-1951/) (East Germany · 1951 · Fear appeal)
- ["Vorwärts zu den III. Weltfestspielen … für den Frieden in Berlin 1951!": banner on the Konsum department store](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-weltfestspiele-1951-konsum-banner-berlin/) (East Germany · 1951 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Halt den Schiebern! Keine Waren für die sowjetische Rüstung": sign beside the zonal-border railway, 1952](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/west-halt-den-schiebern-zonengrenze-1952/) (West Germany · 1952 · Name-calling)
- ["Kampftag für Friedensvertrag gegen Generalkriegsvertrag": May Day 1952 rally board, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-may-day-board-berlin-1952/) (East Germany · May 1, 1952 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- ["Seite an Seite mit der Sowjetunion für den Frieden der Welt": sign on a farmhouse, Schenkenberg](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-lpg-schenkenberg-soviet-friendship-sign-1952/) (East Germany · Oct 21, 1952 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Soviet Imperialism": exhibit placard on Hungary, 1956, at Union Station, Washington, D.C.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/afl-cio-soviet-imperialism-exhibit-1958/) (United States · Mar 24, 1958 · Name-calling, Testimonial)
- ["Plane mit Arbeite mit Regiere mit!": town-hall banner, Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-plane-mit-banner-koenigstein-1960/) (East Germany · 1960 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Wer hoch hinaus will, fällt tief": GDR border billboard near Mackenrode](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-wer-hoch-hinaus-will-faellt-tief-border-board-1960/) (East Germany · 1960 · Fear appeal). Content note: Caricature of a man in a suit riding a rocket on a ladder marked NATO, on a GDR border billboard.
- ["Rroftë miqësia shqiptaro-kineze": faded slogan on a building at Porto Palermo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-albanian-chinese-friendship-slogan-porto-palermo/) (Albania · 1961 · Glittering generalities)
- [FRIEDENSVERTRAG: East Berlin street board on a German peace treaty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-friedensvertrag-board-1961/) (East Germany · 1961 · Name-calling, Transfer). Content note: Cartoon caricature of a West German militarist figure marked with SS runes and an Iron Cross mace.
- ["Wer uns angreift wird vernichtet": GDR border sign beside the new Berlin Wall (CIA photograph)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-wer-uns-angreift-wird-vernichtet-sign-1961/) (East Germany · Nov 20, 1961 · Fear appeal)
- ["Laßt uns gemeinsam für Frieden und Verständigung wirken!": GDR peace-treaty billboard at the Friedrichstraße crossing (CIA photograph)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-friedensvertrag-billboard-friedrichstrasse-1961/) (East Germany · Dec 8, 1961 · Glittering generalities, Scapegoating)
- ["Der deutsche Friedensvertrag bändigt den westdeutschen Militarismus!": sign at the Friedrichstraße checkpoint, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-friedrichstrasse-checkpoint-peace-treaty-sign-1961/) (East Germany · Dec 13, 1961 · Scapegoating, Glittering generalities)
- ["Macht das Tor auf": Brandenburg Gate model at the inner-German border, east of Lübeck](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/macht-das-tor-auf-border-gate-1962/) (West Germany · Nov 1962 · Transfer)
- ["DDR: Das ist die Zukunft Deutschlands": grandstand board beside Berlin Cathedral](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-ddr-zukunft-board-berlin-1964/) (East Germany · 1964 · Bandwagon)
- ["Lenin, prebuď sa, Brežnev sa zbláznil": wall slogan after the Warsaw Pact invasion, Slovakia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/slovak-wall-slogan-lenin-wake-up-1968/) (Czechoslovakia · 1968 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- ["Die Unbesiegbaren" (The Unconquerable): Billhardt Vietnam exhibition billboard, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-die-unbesiegbaren-billhardt-billboard-1968/) (East Germany · Oct 5, 1968 · Glittering generalities)
- ["1870 1970": Lenin centenary decoration on Palace Square, Leningrad](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/leningrad-lenin-centenary-palace-square-1970/) (Soviet Union · 1970 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- [Giant Lenin portrait hung in the main gate of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh), Moscow](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vdnkh-lenin-portrait-main-gate-1971/) (Soviet Union · 1971 · Transfer)
- ["Mit guten Taten überall voran zum X. Festival!": hand-painted sign, Dresden funicular station](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-festival-sign-standseilbahn-dresden-1973/) (East Germany · 1973 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Да здравствует Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза!": rooftop slogan, Moscow](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/moscow-kpss-rooftop-slogan-1975/) (Soviet Union · 1975 · Glittering generalities)
- [Slogan banners at a rally on Lenin Square, Gomel: "Слава КПСС!" (Glory to the CPSU!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gomel-october-revolution-60th-rally-1977/) (Soviet Union · 1977 · Glittering generalities)
- ["БАМ — стройка всенародная" (BAM, a construction of the whole people): Lenin portrait and union-republic emblem board, Ust-Ilimsk](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ust-ilimsk-bam-vsenarodnaya-board-1977/) (Soviet Union · 1977 · Bandwagon, Transfer)
- [Row of agitation boards on a construction site, Ust-Ilimsk: "Делу Ленина верны!" (Loyal to Lenin's cause!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ust-ilimsk-construction-site-agitation-boards-1977/) (Soviet Union · 1977 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ["打倒王张江姚…" (Down with Wang, Zhang, Jiang, Yao...), wall slogan at Dazhai, Shanxi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/down-with-wang-zhang-jiang-yao-wall-slogan-dazhai-1977/) (China · Aug 1977 · Name-calling)
- ["Qëllimi i televizionit borgjezo-revizioniste": beach sign against foreign television, Durrës, 1978](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-anti-foreign-tv-sign-durres-1978/) (Albania · 1978 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Sign applying the labels 'bourgeois-revisionist' to foreign television; people sunbathing in swimwear are visible beneath it.
- ["Atdheu e mbron i gjithë populli": mural of armed figures on an apartment block, 1978](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-atdheu-e-mbron-mural-1978/) (Albania · 1978 · Glittering generalities, Fear appeal)
- ["Marksizem-Leninizmi flamuri fitimtar": roadside board with Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, 1978](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-marksizem-leninizmi-flamuri-fitimtar-1978/) (Albania · 1978 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ["Tek uniteti Parti-Popull qëndron forca jonë": Party of Labour board in front of the Ethem Bey Mosque, Tirana, 1978](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-ppsh-unity-board-ethem-bey-mosque-tirana-1978/) (Albania · Sep 1978 · Identity fusion, Glittering generalities). Content note: Party political board placed in front of a mosque closed under the 1967 ban on religion.
- [Cairo Governorate portrait boards of Sadat and Carter (1979)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cairo-governorate-sadat-carter-portrait-boards-1979/) (Egypt · 1979 · Transfer)
- [State Information Service billboard 'A durable peace based on justice is our aim' (Cairo, 1979)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/egypt-sis-durable-peace-billboard-cairo-1979/) (Egypt · Mar 8, 1979 · Glittering generalities)
- ["NATO soldaten tegen kernwapens": banner at the Volkel air base demonstration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nato-soldaten-tegen-kernwapens-banner-volkel-1982/) (Netherlands · Apr 12, 1982 · Testimonial)
- ["Na atoomreagan geen zonneschijn": banner at a Dutch anti-nuclear demonstration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/na-atoomreagan-banner-1982/) (Netherlands · Apr 17, 1982 · Name-calling, Fear appeal)
- [Bilingual banner "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship" on a Moscow house of culture, XII World Festival of Youth and Students](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/moscow-vit-1985-hungarian-club-antiimperialist-banner/) (Soviet Union · 1985 · Glittering generalities)
- [Banned union's banners on the fence at Jasna Góra, Częstochowa: "Zło dobrem zwyciężaj"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/poland-solidarity-banners-jasna-gora-1985/) (Poland · 1985 · Transfer)
- [Multilingual banners at the Artek international Pioneer camp, Gurzuf: "Für antiimperialistischen Frieden und Freundschaft"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/artek-international-pioneer-banners-1986/) (Soviet Union · 1986 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ["Epoca Ceaușescu": 65th-anniversary billboard of the Romanian Communist Party, Bucharest, 1986](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ceausescu-65-ani-pcr-billboard-bucharest-1986/) (Romania · 1986 · Transfer)
- ["三民主義統一中國" (Three Principles of the People Unites China): sign on Dadan, Kinmen](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kinmen-three-principles-unites-china-sign-1986/) (Taiwan · Aug 1986 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Reagan stop Star-Wars": placard and children's banners at an anti-missile demonstration, The Hague](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/reagan-stop-star-wars-children-banners-the-hague-1987/) (Netherlands · Oct 31, 1987 · Fear appeal)
- ["No vamos a aceptar... que la bandera Roja y Negra claudique": billboard, León, Nicaragua](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fsln-red-and-black-flag-negotiation-billboard-leon-1988/) (Nicaragua · Mar 4, 1988 · Identity fusion, Transfer)
- ["Señores imperialistas, ¡no les tenemos absolutamente ningún miedo!": Havana billboard, 2002](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/senores-imperialistas-ningun-miedo-havana-billboard-2002/) (Cuba · 2002 · Name-calling). Content note: Cartoon billboard caricaturing a U.S. figure in stars-and-stripes trousers beside a grinning armed fighter.
- ["People's Desire": roadside billboard, Myanmar (photographed 2008)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/myanmar-peoples-desire-roadside-billboard-2008/) (Myanmar · Mar 22, 2008 · Name-calling)
- ["Tatmadaw and the People in Eternal Unity": roadside billboard, Myanmar (photographed 2008)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/myanmar-tatmadaw-people-eternal-unity-billboard-2008/) (Myanmar · Apr 9, 2008 · Identity fusion, Name-calling)
- [LDPR rally at the Georgian embassy, Moscow: 'Saakashvili = Hitler', 13 August 2008](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ldpr-saakashvili-hitler-rally-moscow-2008/) (Russia · Aug 13, 2008 · Name-calling). Content note: Hand-lettered protest signs equating a living political leader with Hitler.
- ['Stop Russia' billboard, Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, 2008](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stop-russia-billboard-tbilisi-2008/) (Georgia · Sep 1, 2008 · Fear appeal). Content note: Billboard photograph of a weeping woman and child in front of a bombed apartment block.
- [Putting America to Work (Recovery Act road-work sign)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/arra-putting-america-to-work-sign-2009/) (United States · Mar 23, 2009 · Glittering generalities)
- [Hillside slogans for Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, across the Yalu from Supung (photographed 2009)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hillside-slogans-kim-il-sung-kim-jong-il-supung-2009/) (North Korea · May 12, 2009 · Glittering generalities, Identity fusion)
- ["강성대국을 향하여!": roadside slogan board (photographed 2011)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kangsong-taeguk-guerrilla-style-signboard-2011/) (North Korea · Aug 13, 2011 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ["선군정치의 위대한 승리 만세!": paired roadside murals (photographed 2011)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/songun-victory-roadside-murals-2011/) (North Korea · Aug 15, 2011 · Glittering generalities, Bandwagon)
- ["위대한 장군님의 선군사상으로 사회주의위업을 끝까지 완성하자!": Songun billboard, Pyongyang (photographed 2011)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/songun-thought-billboard-pyongyang-2011/) (North Korea · Sep 2, 2011 · Glittering generalities, Identity fusion)
- ["21세기의 태양 김정일장군 만세!": billboard, Pyongyang (photographed 2011)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sun-of-21st-century-kim-jong-il-billboard-2011/) (North Korea · Sep 2, 2011 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, Zona 18, Old Havana: doorway, 2012](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cuba-cdr-old-havana-committee-doorway-2012/) (Cuba · Mar 30, 2012 · Identity fusion)
- [Вместе с Россией. 16 марта – Референдум! (Together with Russia. 16 March: Referendum!): Simferopol billboards](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vmeste-s-rossiei-simferopol-2014/) (Republic of Crimea Unrecognised · Mar 2014 · Transfer)
- ['A tyre burned, blazed, and Vova Putler - la-la-la!' Ukrainian Platform 'Sobor' billboard, Kyiv](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sobor-vova-putler-billboard-kyiv-2014/) (Ukraine · May 17, 2014 · Name-calling). Content note: Political billboard that ridicules Vladimir Putin as 'Putler' and carries a printed warning of obscene vocabulary.
- [Rival presidential billboards, Istanbul, election day 2014](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/turkey-election-billboards-2014/) (Turkey · Aug 10, 2014 · Glittering generalities)
- ['Chávez vive' banners on the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, Caracas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chavez-vive-confinanzas-banners-2014/) (Venezuela · Oct 3, 2014 · Transfer)
- [Welcome to free Eritrea: painted flag sign on a street corner in Asmara](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eritrea-welcome-to-free-eritrea-sign-asmara-2017/) (Eritrea · 2017 · Glittering generalities)
- ["결사옹위" (defend to the death): roadside sign with armed figures, North Korea (photographed 2017)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-defend-leadership-to-the-death-roadside-sign-2017/) (North Korea · Jan 2, 2017 · Identity fusion, Glittering generalities)
- ['Let's preserve our native culture and language' Pushkin 'Constitution 2020' billboard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pushkin-constitution-2020-billboard-2020/) (Russia · Mar 21, 2020 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- ["We are woke to your PLANdemic" placard, Columbus, Ohio](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plandemic-protest-sign-2020/) (United States · May 9, 2020 · Name-calling)
- ['Core Socialist Values' billboard, Puding County, Guizhou](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/core-socialist-values-billboard-2020/) (China · Oct 10, 2020 · Glittering generalities)
- ['Closely unite around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core' billboard, Zhaoshan, Xiangtan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xi-core-party-central-billboard-xiangtan-2021/) (China · Oct 24, 2021 · Identity fusion)
- ['Liberte / Support Truck Drivers' banners on a truck at the 2022 Canadian convoy rally](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/freedom-rally-truck-banners-canada-2022/) (Canada · Jan 31, 2022 · Name-calling, Glittering generalities)
- ['Russian ship, go f*** yourself' billboard, Ternopil](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/russkiy-korabl-idi-nakh-ternopil-billboard-2022/) (Ukraine · Mar 9, 2022 · Name-calling). Content note: Street billboard carrying a profane anti-Russian slogan (expletive printed with an asterisk).
- ['Z #заПутина' LED billboard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/z-za-putina-billboard-2022/) (Russia · Sep 24, 2022 · Identity fusion). Content note: Pro-war 'Z' symbol supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine; displaying it is restricted by law in some countries.
- [Education for the benefit of the mass: painted wall slogan with Eritrean flag, Asmara](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eritrea-education-for-the-benefit-of-the-mass-mural-2023/) (Eritrea · 2023 · Glittering generalities)
- ['Defending the state! Defending independence!' State Bureau of Investigation billboard, Kropyvnytskyi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dbr-na-zakhysti-derzhavy-billboard-2023/) (Ukraine · Sep 20, 2023 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- ['KRAKEN: Temper your will' recruitment billboard, Kharkiv](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kraken-zagartuy-volyu-kharkiv-billboard-2023/) (Ukraine · Oct 10, 2023 · Testimonial)
- ['Bravery is in our DNA' Brave.ua panel, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brave-ua-bravery-in-our-dna-berlin-2023/) (Ukraine · Dec 22, 2023 · Glittering generalities)