Victory Bonds will help stop this. Kultur vs. humanity (Canada)
A uniformed man swims with a Red Cross nurse held against his chest, shaking his fist at a surfacing submarine, beside a lifebuoy lettered for the hospital ship Llandovery Castle. The slogan sets 'Kultur', the wartime label for German civilisation, against 'humanity' (name-calling), and borrows the Red Cross emblem and a drowned nurse to attach the sinking's outrage to the purchase of bonds.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Dominion of Canada, 1918 Victory Loan campaign (issuing committee and artist not printed on the sheet)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Borden Government
- Leader
- Robert Borden
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War I
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1918, before 1931; LOC: no known restrictions)
Anonymous, Canada. [1918]. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-12169.
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
VICTORY BONDS WILL HELP STOP - THIS - KULTUR VS. HUMANITY. [lifebuoy in the water:] LLANDOVERY CAST[LE, the last letters cut off by the curve of the buoy] W.P. 2 [printer's mark, lower left]
The photographed copy is bordered by Kodak colour and gray-scale calibration strips added for archival photography, not part of the original poster.
