Dove stabbed by a hammer and sickle
A landscape poster in white, red and black shows a white dove carrying an olive branch with the blade of a large red hammer and sickle driven into its back. Red drops fall from the wound and form a star below. The tell is the transfer of stigma: the Soviet emblem is placed on the attacker and the peace symbol is cast as its victim, so the picture asserts a link between calls for peace and Communist aims. The only text is the distributor line.
- Date
- 1969
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Young Americans for Freedom (Washington, D.C.)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
DISTRIBUTED BY: YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM 1221 MASSACHUSETTS AVE., N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 20005
The dove, olive branch, hammer and sickle and star are drawn images with no lettering.
