Posters from World War II

	A simple message: Avenge Pearl Harbor ... .. 1. Remember December 7th! Allen Saalberg, 1942 2. Avenge December 7 Bernard Perlin, U.S. Office of War Information, 1942 3. Miles of Hell to Tokyo Amos Sewell, U.S. War Manopwer Commission, 1945 4. Next! Japan I. Bingham, U.S. G.P.O., Treasury Department, 1944 5. More Production Artist and date unknown 6. We'll Lick 'em! Just Give Us the Stuff! Artist and date unknown
	... Japanese brutality ..... .......... ..... 1. Stop Him and the Job's Done "U.S. Army Official Poster," date unknown 2. Stay on the Job Until Every Murdering Jap is Wiped Out Artist unknown, date unknown 3. The Jap Way ... Cold-Blooded Murder Date unknown 4. But We've Got to Beat the Jap First Artist unknown, date unknow
	Japanese as rapists (or necropheliacs?) and murderers .... 1. This is the Enemy Unknown artist, design entry, poster contest, 1942 2. Attack on a Caucasion Woman Unknown artist, date unknown 3. The Sowers T.H. Benton, 1942 4. Keep this Horror from Your Home Japanese soldier, with knife and sharpened teeth, attacks a white woman, date unknown 5. World War I poster: Destroy This Mad Brute German soldier, as a gorilla, carries away a white woman, c. 1915
..	Tojo's ears and teeth grow large; his chin disappears. The nose either shrinks or swells togorilla-like proportio n................ Tojo: Photographs and Caricatures 1. Tojo's granddaughter carries his photograph to Hawaii 2. Hon. Spy say: "Thanks for the can you throw away!" Unknown artist, U.S. G.P.O. War Production Board, 1943 3. Tojo at the War Crimes Tribunal Photographer unknown, 1948 4. Tojo and Hitler campaign for Roosevelt Arthur Szyk, 1944
	.This stereotype persists long after the war ...... 1. Mickey Rooney as the buck-toothed Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) 2. No Time to Let Loose: It's a Fight to the Fin ish Artist unknown, c. 1943 3. Jap Trap Douglas Aircraft Co., date unknown
..	Conjoined leaders of the enemy as the enemy ...... .. 1. Stamp 'Em Out! Thomas A. Burne, 1941-3 2. Warning! Our Homes are in Danger Now Artist unknown, date unknown 3. Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini as a Roasted Chicken date unknown
	Propaganda to fight Japanese sympathizers at home ....... 1. I am an American Dorothea Lange, 1942 2. This is America...Keep it Free! Poster critiquing Lange's image, date unknown
	Life contributes to the myth of race ........ 1. Chinese type 2. Japanese type "How to tell Japs from the Chinese," Life Magazine,Dec. 1941 (text)
	. Nazi propaganda: allied leaders as puppets of Jews - elderly, drunken and foppish Dancing to the Jewish Tune Dutch collaborationist leaflet, date unknown
	Nazi propaganda: a Japanese face with dignity and a samurai history .. The Secret of Japan's Strength Leaflet by Albrecht Fürst von Urache, 1943 (text)

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