Throughout the Nabb's Local History Archives and Special Collections, researchers can find examples of graphic design in propaganda posters and advertisements from local and global collections. These posters and advertisements offer insight into marketing tactics used to sell products and political imagery used to disseminate ideologies and propaganda. Some of these collections contain sensitive images depicting racist stereotypes and slurs, weapons, and violence. To view a larger version of the image, right click on the image and select "Open image in new tab." For more information on individual collections, use the accession number under the image (i.e. SC2020.005 or 2010.109) to search our finding aid portal: https://libapps.salisbury.edu/nabb-archives/.
This album, published by Editorial Echevarria in 1960 for the Ministry of Commerce, consists of trading cards that consumers collected when purchasing goods from the CIA Industrial Empacadora de Dulces, S.A.. Each trading card, complete with illustrations of the revolution's leaders and major figures, includes an explanatory subtitle that tells the story of the Cuban Revolution from 1952 to 1959. Illustrations by J.M. Picart and text by Mario Jimenez.
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Covers of “Allen’s Book of Berries,” 1899-1985, advertising W.F. Allen strawberries.
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These approximately 50 pages contain cartoons that support American unions and laborers in general from the 1940s. The cartoons were intended to be used on posters and examples of how to use the illustrations in a layout are included on the pages. Each page contains several illustrations and the depictions range from laborers standing up to capitalists to references to the Taft-Hartley Act.
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These ten posters were advertisements for Bollywood films in India in the 1940s.
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Tingle Printing Company (Pittsville, MD) sampling of advertisements.
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One 1960s scrapbook from collection showing Salisbury, MD. menswear advertisements and more.
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This album contains 256 labels from Japanese matchbooks likely created between 1940 and 1950. The matchbook labels, which advertised in both English and Japanese, have been pasted on to 46 individual pages. One image depicts Mickey Mouse on a Pachinko Parlor advertisement.
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Several folders of advertisements from late 19th and early 20th centuries (especially 1920s) for many types of goods, including fun ones like “cocaine for the hair.”
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These 12 Spanish Ration Coupons sheets each contain ten perforated individual coupon cards that date between 1937 and 1953, with the bulk dating between 1937 and 1943. Each complete sheet depicts a range of advertisements from the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, militias, youth organizations, and government social assistance programs. Locations noted on the verso of the cards include Malaga, Toledo, Valencia, Almeria, Huesca, Murcia, Galicia, Tarrega, Lerida, Avila, and Barcelona. The items that could be redeemed for these coupons also vary.
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This First World War (Der Weltkrieg) Cigarette Card Album was created by Herousgegeben Vom Cigaretten Bilderdienft in 1935. Included are 270 color cards depicting scenes from the First World War, 1914-1918.
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