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Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek, 1939 UK poster: Four colour portraits in a grid

Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek

Four colour portraits in a grid, each captioned with a name: Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek. The poster carries no slogan; the tell is the grouping of the four Allied leaders on one sheet, which transfers the standing of each to the alliance as a whole.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Transfer
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Printed in England by Field Sons & Co. Ltd., Bradford; Churchill portrait by Cecil Beaton; Chiang portrait 'by courtesy of Life Magazine'
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
United Kingdom
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
Media
Regime
Churchill Government
Leader
Winston Churchill
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Theme
War and the military
Event
World War II
Regime
Churchill wartime government
Leader
Winston Churchill
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights
Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Printed by Field Sons & Co. Ltd.; portraits by Cecil Beaton and courtesy of Life Magazine, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-32.

Text on the object

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

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
JOSEPH STALIN
CHIANG KAI-SHEK

[credits:] Cecil Beaton. / By courtesy of "Life" Magazine.
[imprint:] PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY FIELD SONS & CO. LTD., BRADFORD. 91/3774

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