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title: Sorrow and Grief to a Mother and Son
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sorrow-and-grief-to-a-mother-and-son-1965-1969/
description: A full-page close photograph shows a woman in a white mourning veil holding a small boy who wears a white headband.
section: Collection
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**Content note:** A close photograph of a veiled widow and her young son in white mourning dress at the father's funeral, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Sorrow and Grief to a Mother and Son, 1965 US poster: A full-page close photograph shows a woman in a white mourning veil](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sorrow-and-grief-to-a-mother-and-son-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sorrow-and-grief-to-a-mother-and-son-1965-1969.jpg)

# Sorrow and Grief to a Mother and Son

A full-page close photograph shows a woman in a white mourning veil holding a small boy who wears a white headband, with an orange caption block reading '... bring sorrow and grief to a mother and son at the father's funeral.' The opening ellipsis shows the sentence continues from a lost earlier sheet, so the sheet names no cause itself. The tell is the emotional close-up: grief imagery carries the message, and the actor responsible is left to the missing preceding text.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
... bring sorrow and grief
to a mother and son
at the father's funeral.
```

Printed as the sole caption, on an orange block at lower left.

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