Saturday, January 17, 2009

A Summons to Awesomeness!

It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes I get assigned to do something that I actually enjoy. Last semester, which happened to be my last semester, I was taking a Digital Imaging class. Now this class, Digital Imaging, was all about the digitizing of images and objects for reasons of preservation or scholarship or simply being compulsive. Anyways, the class was assigned to find an online digital collection, carefully look through it, and then present it to the class. I found the collection that I ended up choosing very interesting, and now I'd like to share it with you, faithful reader.

"A Summons to Comradeship"
World War I and II Posters and Postcards


That's right, propaganda posters!

Sailors love to shake hands. Its true.

I enjoy how the wife has to sew the pants while he is fixing the mower. Americans used to be that efficient, what happened?


Alot of these old posters encourage those at home to produce materials for those at war.


This one is too epic for its own good.

Thats right gents, dont trust those there blonde broads.


Well this is just a sampling of what can be found in this collection. If you're interested in seeing more, click here. No wait, here. Wait, wait .... click here. See, library school was worth it.

2 comments:

Orontes said...

We looked at the racial anti-Japanese propaganda posters in a History class I took at Bingo. I found that stuff fascinating.

Matt said...

Yea, I found all of the really inappropriate and dated ones the most interesting.