ONMI poster: 'Giornata della Madre e del Fanciullo, 24 Dicembre, Anno XV' (Italy, 1936)
Poster seen from behind: a man in a green jacket and a woman in a dark dress embrace each other and a small child in a blue smock held on the man's shoulder, against a blue-to-orange sky. White diagonal text at top reads '24 dicembre'; the base panel names the Opera Nazionale per la Protezione della Maternita e dell'Infanzia and the title 'Giornata della Madre e del Fanciullo, Anno XV'. The tell: the family faces away from the viewer toward the sky, a pose that makes a state agency's day of fundraising and registration read as private tenderness.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- December 24, 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Opera Nazionale per la Protezione della Maternita e dell'Infanzia (ONMI), Italy
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Health, Gender and suffrage
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD tag; Italian basis, URAA status not asserted)
ONMI poster, Italy, 1936 (via a Canadian university library page cited on Commons); via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
24 DICEMBRE OPERA NAZIONALE PER LA PROTEZIONE DELLA MATERNITA' E DELL'INFANZIA GIORNATA DELLA MADRE E DEL FANCIULLO ANNO XV
24 December. National Organisation for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy. Day of the Mother and the Child, Year XV.
