Graphic Revolution: Propaganda, Wartime &

Lot: 100 - Aleksandr Deineka, A Model Socialist City of the Proletarian State vintage poster

Aleksandr Deineka A Model Socialist City of the Proletarian State vintage poster 1931 40.125 h x 28.375 w in (102 x 72 cm) Aleksandr Deineka, a preeminent modernist of the Soviet era, was master of a clean, athletic figurative style that defined the visual language of the new Republic. This poster serves as a stark, rhythmic representation of the state's urban aspirations: a future of streamlined public transportation, sharp New Objectivity architecture, and a disciplined, bustling proletariat. While the imagery is serene and orderly, it was designed to invigorate a public facing the grueling realities of radical urban reform. These initiatives often disrupted local supply chains and forced massive labor shifts, creating a deep rift between the poster's lofty idealism and the lived experience of the populace. This work stands as a beautiful yet haunting shadow of a planned utopia that moved forward at a significant societal cost. This work is the right-hand sheet of the two-sheet poster that was circulated both together and independently at the time. Institutional collections typically catalogue each sheet as a standalone work, with this design having the truncated title V obraztsovyi sotsialisticheskii gorod proletarskogo gosudarstva ("…into a model socialist city of the proletarian state"), as seen in the example held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. An example of the two-sheet version is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, MoMA exhibition catalog, pg. 133 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 101 - Aleksandr Deineka, Shock Chains and Factories, to Tow the Lagging Ones! vintage poster

Aleksandr Deineka Shock Chains and Factories, to Tow the Lagging Ones! vintage poster 1930 28.75 h x 40.75 w in (73 x 104 cm) Published amid the First Five-Year Plan, this Soviet poster promotes rapid industrialization and "socialist competition," urging shock departments and factories to pull weaker enterprises and their "lagging" workers forward in productivity. Depicting a powerful, smoke-belching industrial ship towing a struggling vessel carrying a dilapidated factory, it visualizes the era's drive to eliminate inefficiency and transform labor into collective, high-output momentum. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 102 - Gustav Klutsis, Shock Workers! In the Battle for the Mobilization of Domestic Resources vintage poster

Gustav Klutsis Shock Workers! In the Battle for the Mobilization of Domestic Resources vintage poster 1931 56 h x 40.5 w in (142 x 103 cm) Created during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, this agitprop poster by Gustav Klutsis celebrates industrial mobilization through the figure of a valiant steelworker wielding industrial tongs and framed by factories, agricultural machinery, and massed laborers. Using bold red geometric forms and revolutionary symbolism, the composition reflects the drive for rapid Soviet industrialization and the "shock worker" ideal (udarniki), while referencing Leninist legitimacy through commemorative seals that reinforce the political authority behind the campaign to expand production and mobilize domestic resources. This is a two-sheet poster mounted to canvas lining. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 103 - Gustav Klutsis, We Will Give Millions of Qualified Workers vintage poster

Gustav Klutsis We Will Give Millions of Qualified Workers vintage poster 1931 28 h x 39.5 w in (71 x 100 cm) The present work by Gustav Klutsis is considered one of the landmark works of Soviet propaganda, combining Constructivist design and photomontage to present Stalin-era industrialization as energetic, patriotic, and forward-looking. A pioneering Latvian-born Soviet artist known for his influential political graphics, Klutsis depicts three cheerful young workers (two men and a woman dressed in work suit or peasant clothing) whose optimistic expressions and unified presence embody the regime's idealized vision of the new socialist workforce during the First Five-Year Plan. This graphic is the top sheet of the two-part poster that was circulated both together and independently at the time; because of its scale and self-contained composition, the upper section of the poster was able to be used independently from the lower half and was at times exhibited on its own, as seen in the example issued by the American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations (MoMA exhibition catalog). The bottom half (not seen here) depicts a long line of young, energetic workers headed toward the large factory building, ready to work. Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, MoMA exhibition catalog, pg. 171 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 104 - Gustav Klutsis, The Bolshevik Struggle for the Harvest is the Struggle for Socialism vintage poster

Gustav Klutsis The Bolshevik Struggle for the Harvest is the Struggle for Socialism vintage poster 1931 56 h x 39.5 w in (142 x 100 cm) This 1931 work by Klutsis declares that "The Bolshevik Struggle for the Harvest is the Struggle for Socialism," linking agricultural production directly to the political success of the Soviet state during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan. Featuring mechanized American combine harvesters alongside dynamic Constructivist imagery, the design promotes collectivized farming, technological modernization, and mass grain production as essential components of rapid industrialization and socialist transformation. By portraying the harvest as both economic labor and ideological duty, the poster reflects the Soviet government's broader campaign to mobilize peasants in support of state-directed modernization. This is a two-sheet poster mounted to canvas lining. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 105 - Boris Knoblok, We Will Create a Powerful Socialist Food Industry vintage poster

Boris Knoblok We Will Create a Powerful Socialist Food Industry vintage poster 1932 38 h x 27 w in (97 x 69 cm) Created at the height of the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan, this work presents an idealized vision of industrial progress: a vast modern factory dominates the composition, while carefully ordered interior scenes show workers efficiently producing food that is then carried by a long train across the Soviet Union. Combining the bold geometry and optimism of early Soviet design with the political messaging of Stalin-era propaganda, the poster reflects the state's ambition to modernize everyday life through centralized industry, a theme that appeared throughout Knoblok's graphic and theatrical work of the 1930s. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 106 - Sergei Senkin, Let's Strengthen the Industrial Might of the Soviet Union! vintage poster

Sergei Senkin Let's Strengthen the Industrial Might of the Soviet Union! vintage poster 1932 40 h x 27.5 w in (102 x 70 cm) Sergei Senkin remains one of the most compelling figures of the Soviet avant-garde, maintaining a unique balance between state-sanctioned commissions and a boundary-pushing private artistic practice. Influenced by his background in abstract oil painting and photomontage, this work utilizes a radical play with scale to celebrate the proletarian hero. The composition features a worker looming triumphantly over a sprawling industrial landscape, brandishing a metal casting like a hard-won trophy. This poster perfectly encapsulates the USSR's drive for rapid industrialization while showcasing Senkin's forward-thinking design language, blending heroic realism with the experimental sensibilities of the Constructivist movement. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 107 - Vasily Nikolaevich Elkin, Each Peasant, Each Brigade, Each MTS Should Know the Plan of the Bolshevik Sowing vintage poster

Vasily Nikolaevich Elkin Each Peasant, Each Brigade, Each MTS Should Know the Plan of the Bolshevik Sowing vintage poster c. 1931 40.75 h x 28.625 w in (104 x 73 cm) This agitprop poster conveys the directive "Each peasant, each brigade, each MTS should know the plan of the Bolshevik sowing," urging coordinated agricultural effort under the First Five-Year Plan. Emphasizing collective farms (kolkhozy) and machine-tractor stations (MTS), it reflects the early Stalin-era push for centralized planning and the rapid transformation of Soviet agriculture through collectivization and industrial support for rural production. Vasily Nikolaevich Elkin was a Soviet graphic designer whose career spanned revolutionary upheaval, wartime service, and state propaganda work, beginning with art studies in Moscow (1911-16), followed by military service in World War I and later the Red Army during the Civil War. After training at Vkhutemas and working within major Soviet publishing and agitprop institutions in the 1920s-30s, he produced influential propaganda posters before being convicted in 1934 and sentenced to a labor camp, later returning to design work during World War II and continuing his career into the postwar period with both propaganda and more traditional landscape painting. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 108 - Valentina Kulagina, Let's Give 8 Million Tons of Pig Iron for Socialism in Construction in 1931! vintage poster

Valentina Kulagina Let's Give 8 Million Tons of Pig Iron for Socialism in Construction in 1931! vintage poster 1931 28 h x 20 w in (71 x 51 cm) This poster by Valentina Kulagina reflects her influential role in Soviet Constructivist graphic design, where she developed a highly dynamic visual language for mass political communication. Created during the rapid industrialization drive of the First Five-Year Plan, the work mobilizes bold typography and photomontage to rally steel mill workers toward ambitious production goals, in this case the call for eight million tons of pig iron as part of socialist construction. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Klutsis/Kulagina p. 170 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 109 - Mikhail Nikolaevich Makhalov, Kolkhoz Woman, Join the Ranks of Strike Brigades! vintage poster

Mikhail Nikolaevich Makhalov Kolkhoz Woman, Join the Ranks of Strike Brigades! vintage poster 1931 39.75 h x 28.875 w in (101 x 73 cm) This 1931 poster captures a pivotal shift in Soviet culture, as women were mobilized to join collective farms to meet ambitious state-sanctioned economic goals. Artist Mikhail Nikolaevich Makhalov illustrates the communal spirit of this plan through a dynamic, repeating collage composition. By blending stylized photography of women working competently and joyfully together, the design conveys a message both simple and radical. The vibrant, rhythmic visuals carry the weight of its historic call to action. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 110 - All Forces to Increase Labor and Productivity vintage poster

All Forces to Increase Labor and Productivity vintage poster c. 1930 41 h x 27 w in (104 x 69 cm) Produced around 1930 in a Constructivist style of angular forms, dramatic typography, and industrial imagery, the Soviet poster combines quotations from Vladimir Lenin with urgent calls for greater efficiency, discipline, and output during the intense industrialization campaigns of the First Five-Year Plan. Shown in the lower margin, the inclusion of references to the "Down with Illiteracy" campaign and Glavpolitprosvet (the Main Political and Educational Committee of the People's Commissariat of Education) reflects the Soviet government's parallel effort to eradicate widespread illiteracy and expand political education among workers and peasants, viewing literacy, technical knowledge, and ideological instruction as essential tools for building a modern socialist state. This example is additionally notated to be from the second edition of 10,000 copies. Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 111 - Elizaveta Ignatovich, Woman Shockworker, Improve the Quality of Production! vintage poster

Elizaveta Ignatovich Woman Shockworker, Improve the Quality of Production! vintage poster 1931 38.875 h x 26 w in (99 x 66 cm) This 1931 soviet poster, promoting women's participation in factory labor, is powerfully simple. Part of a more concerted effort to energize the work force and meet the state-sanctioned Five-Year Plan, women in particular were being marketed to as an untapped source of economic potential. The artist, renowned photographer Elizaveta Ignatovich, wisely understood that seeing is believing. Her photocollage represents that sentiment perfectly with a woman captured in the middle of her work, earnestly devoted to the task at hand. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, MoMA exhibition catalog, pg. 106 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 112 - Yang (Iosif Abramovich Ganf), Five-Year Plan Will be Fulfilled and Overfulfilled in 4 Years (Rare vintage poster)

Yang (Iosif Abramovich Ganf) Five-Year Plan Will be Fulfilled and Overfulfilled in 4 Years (Rare vintage poster) 1932 40.25 h x 27.875 w in (102 x 71 cm) Created for the landmark Moscow exhibition The Poster in the Service of the Five-Year Plan, this work by Iosif Abramovich Ganf masterfully translates state policy into a compelling visual narrative. As a leading political artist and satirist, Ganf depicts the peasantry mobilized for Stalin's rapid industrialization efforts. The bold claim that the Five-Year Plan would be completed in four years carries a complex legacy; while intended as a triumphant rallying cry, the human cost and resulting famines imbue the image with a retrospective irony. This poster serves as a fascinating intersection of Ganf's dual career as a propagandist and a political cartoonist, capturing the tension between public idealism and the era's stark realities. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Museum of Norway, Oslo. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 113 - Five-Year Plan Data Visualization : Two vintage posters

Five-Year Plan Data Visualization : Two vintage posters 1930 20.375 h x 27.25 w in (52 x 69 cm) 20 h x 27.5 w in (51 x 70 cm) Rendered in a bold Constructivist style of sharp geometry, photomontage, and dynamic typography, these Soviet posters promoted massive state investments in heavy industry, mechanized agriculture, transportation networks, workers' housing, and public infrastructure as symbols of a rapidly modernizing socialist society. Produced during the turbulent years of the First Five-Year Plan, the posters reflect the Soviet Union's aggressive campaign to transform a largely agrarian nation into an industrial power through centralized planning, collectivization, and sweeping programs of technological and economic expansion. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 114 - Valentina Kulagina, 1905, The Road to Red October vintage poster

Valentina Kulagina 1905, The Road to Red October vintage poster 1929 38.5 h x 26 w in (98 x 66 cm) This design revisits the tragic event of Bloody Sunday in January 1905, when peaceful demonstrators were gunned down outside the Winter Palace, an atrocity that helped precipitate broader unrest and ultimately forced Tsar Nicholas II to concede limited reforms later that year. Employing her characteristic photomontage approach, Kulagina juxtaposes the rigid, advancing mass of workers against symbols of imperial authority, visually compressing the violence of the old regime beneath the collective force of the people. The tsar's likeness, encircled by a fallen crown, becomes an emblem of a collapsing order, foreshadowing the revolutionary upheaval that would culminate in 1917. Although often associated with her husband and collaborator Gustav Klutsis, Kulagina demonstrates here her independent artistic voice, blending photographic fragments with emerging graphic elements to heighten both the dynamism and ideological clarity of the composition-an approach that set her apart at a moment when Soviet propaganda largely privileged pure photography. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: V&A E.1274-1989; Klutsis & Kulagina 133; Power of images p. 142 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 115 - Konstantin Stepanovich Elisseev, Let's Launch a Socialist Offensive in Town and Countryside! vintage poster

Konstantin Stepanovich Elisseev Let's Launch a Socialist Offensive in Town and Countryside! vintage poster 1929 27.75 h x 40.375 w in (70 x 103 cm) Konstantin Stepanovich Eliseev was a prolific Soviet illustrator, caricaturist, and poster artist whose bold graphic style blended satire, dynamic composition, and socialist realist ideals to promote industrialization, labor, and collective progress throughout the USSR. This poster depicts the bustling interior of a massive tractor factory, where disciplined workers assemble towering vehicles beneath cranes and machinery, presenting industrial production as a triumphant vision of modern technology and mechanized progress spreading outward to town and country across the Soviet Union. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 116 - Voldemar Petrovich Anderson, Who is First in Collective Labor vintage poster

Voldemar Petrovich Anderson Who is First in Collective Labor vintage poster c. 1930 33.25 h x 23.25 w in (84 x 59 cm) Created during the early years of Soviet Collectivization and First Five-Year Plan, this poster celebrates the idealized image of the female kolkhoz worker as a model of socialist productivity and agricultural progress. By portraying a peasant woman leading the wheat harvest, the design reflects the Soviet state's campaign to increase grain production while promoting women's participation in collective farm labor as part of Stalin's sweeping transformation of the countryside. The printer, Rabocheye Delo, was a Soviet state publishing and printing house associated with trade unions and workers' organizations in Moscow, active in producing political literature, newspapers, and propaganda materials during the early Soviet period. Rabocheye Delo, Mospoligraf, Moscow Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 117 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Arzhenikov, Correct Organization of Labor Will Increase the Crop Harvest vintage poster

Aleksei Nikolaevich Arzhenikov Correct Organization of Labor Will Increase the Crop Harvest vintage poster 1930 33.25 h x 23.75 w in (84 x 60 cm) Created during the First Five-Year Plan and the Soviet campaign for agricultural collectivization, this poster presents a vast wheat field systematically harvested by organized farm workers and horse-drawn tractor, embodying the state's ideal of efficient, mechanized collective labor intended to transform the rural economy in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Aleksei Nikolaevich Arzhenikov was a Moscow-trained painter associated with the Association of Artists of the Revolution and the Society of Moscow Artists, whose career bridged late Imperial Russian art and early Soviet Socialist Realist imagery focused on workers, peasants, and modern industrial life. Transpechat' of NKPS (People's Commissariat of Transportation and Communication) Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 118 - We Will Create Indivisible Funds for the Purchase of Tractors vintage poster

We Will Create Indivisible Funds for the Purchase of Tractors vintage poster 1930 28.75 h x 20 w in (73 x 51 cm) Issued during the early years of the First Five-Year Plan, this 1930 Soviet propaganda poster promotes agricultural collectivization, urging peasants to gather and sell everyday materials, such as bones and rags to horns and bristles, to finance modern farming equipment. Contrasting traditional horse-drawn labor with mechanized tractors and railways, the design reflects the Soviet state's push to transform rural agriculture and consolidate farmers into collective farms, or kolkhozes. American Russian Institute, New York stamp to lower edge. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow and Leningrad Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 119 - Day of Harvest and Collectivization vintage poster

Day of Harvest and Collectivization vintage poster 1930 23.5 h x 32 w in (60 x 81 cm) Issued at the height of Stalin's forced collectivization campaign, this poster portrays tractors, threshing machines, and disciplined farm workers gathering grain in a carefully choreographed vision of the modernized countryside promoted under the First Five-Year Plan. Produced as rural resistance, grain seizures, and the liquidation of so-called "kulak" peasants intensified across the USSR, the poster reflects the state's effort to convince villagers that mechanized collective farms would usher in agricultural abundance and socialist progress despite the severe upheaval unfolding in the countryside. Bezbozhnik was a Soviet anti-religious publication that ran between 1922 and 1941. Bezbozhnik ("The Godless"), Moscow Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 120 - Willkomen, Genosse / Be Welcome Comrade vintage poster

Willkomen, Genosse / Be Welcome Comrade vintage poster 1931 38.25 h x 26.75 w in (97 x 68 cm) During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Soviet Union actively recruited thousands of foreign engineers, architects, skilled laborers, and technical specialists-particularly from the United States and Europe-to help design factories, build infrastructure, and support the rapid industrialization drives of the First Five-Year Plan. This German-language poster was clearly intended to attract workers and technical experts from German-speaking countries to participate in the Soviet Union's sweeping industrial and infrastructural expansion. IzoGiz (State Publishing House), Moscow Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 121 - Women! The Royal Air Force Needs Your Help! / World War I vintage poster

Women! The Royal Air Force Needs Your Help! / World War I vintage poster 1918 29.75 h x 20.25 w in (76 x 51 cm) A rare example of women being invited into the military fold, this WWI British poster calls out to the public to enlist in the Royal Air Force. In times of strife culture changes rapidly, and in 1918 this moment was happening for women across Europe. This poster captures that moment perfectly, with a smiling clean-cut Air force recruit, and her uniform perfectly tailored, she stands in front of a bustling active air force base. The men in the background share her regalia and dedication; She looks like she belongs exactly where she is, and for many who saw this poster during the time, it was a visual representation of how much change was possible. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museums, London. The Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd., London Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 122 - Ernest Oker, The Royal Air Force Requires Wireless Operators vintage poster

Ernest Oker The Royal Air Force Requires Wireless Operators vintage poster c. 1920 30 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) Created shortly after the conclusion of World War I and the early establishment of the Royal Air Force, this recruitment poster calls for wireless operators to support the rapidly evolving communications systems that made modern aerial warfare possible. Featuring an R.38-class airship transmitting signals to a ground station equipped with a wireless mast and operator hut, it underscores the crucial shift from visual signaling to electronic coordination, urging recruits to apply through official RAF recruiting channels in London or at local stations as aviation technology transformed military command and control. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY. Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 123 - Ernest Charles Wallcousins, The Men Behind the Man Behind the Gun / World War I vintage poster

Ernest Charles Wallcousins The Men Behind the Man Behind the Gun / World War I vintage poster 1917 30 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) This World War I-era poster uses a split scene to link industrial labor with frontline combat, showing workers arriving at a shipyard and a sailor engaging a submarine, reinforcing the idea that production on the home front directly fuels victory at sea. The wordplay underscores a seamless chain of effort: what is built ashore is ultimately what wins battles offshore. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museums, London. Banks, Ltd., United Kingdom This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 124 - Alfred F. Burke, Jewish Relief Campaign / Share / World War I vintage poster

Alfred F. Burke Jewish Relief Campaign / Share / World War I vintage poster 1915 40 h x 29.375 w in (102 x 75 cm) The Jewish Relief Campaign began in 1914 to help aid those affected by World War I in both Europe and Palestine. Here, an allegorical figure of America benevolently offers necessities to a refugee family with the distant Statue of Liberty's silhouette standing out against the dawn. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Sackett & Wilhelms, Brooklyn Literature: PAI-LXXXV, 116 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 125 - Charles Edward Chambers, Food Will Win the War (English version) / World War I vintage poster

Charles Edward Chambers Food Will Win the War (English version) / World War I vintage poster 1917 30 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) "Because of desperate food shortages in Europe, it was understood that America must find a way to feed the Allies-she already supplied wheat for ninety-percent of Britain's daily bread. The generosity and compassion of the American people and the great agricultural resources of the North American continent would be called upon... Twenty million Americans signed pledges of membership in the Food Administration, which obligated them to conserve scarce food so that our Allies in Europe would not have to go hungry. In addition to meat and eggs, Americans were urged to cut back on wheat, the single most vital food item... Meatless and wheatless days each week were patriotically subscribed to by America's families" (Rawls, p. 112-115). This was one of the many posters published by the U.S. Food Administration aimed at pleasing recent immigrants with an inspiring New York harbor scene that shows the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan shimmering under a patriotic rainbow. The poster was produced in a total of five languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and Yiddish. Rusling Wood Litho., New York Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein Literature: (all var but Rawls and PAI): Rawls, p. 113; Theophiles, p. 94; Gallo, p. 92; PAI-LXXXII, 31 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 126 - Charles Edward Chambers, Food Will Win the War (Yiddish version) / World War I vintage poster

Charles Edward Chambers Food Will Win the War (Yiddish version) / World War I vintage poster 1917 30 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) "Because of desperate food shortages in Europe, it was understood that America must find a way to feed the Allies-she already supplied wheat for ninety-percent of Britain's daily bread. The generosity and compassion of the American people and the great agricultural resources of the North American continent would be called upon... Twenty million Americans signed pledges of membership in the Food Administration, which obligated them to conserve scarce food so that our Allies in Europe would not have to go hungry. In addition to meat and eggs, Americans were urged to cut back on wheat, the single most vital food item... Meatless and wheatless days each week were patriotically subscribed to by America's families" (Rawls, p. 112-115). This was one of the many posters published by the U.S. Food Administration aimed at pleasing recent immigrants with an inspiring New York harbor scene that shows the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan shimmering under a patriotic rainbow. The poster was produced in a total of five languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and Yiddish. Rusling Wood Litho., New York Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein Literature: Rawls, p. 113; Made in Israel 60, 180; PAI-LXXXII, 32 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 127 - J. Paul Verrees, What Are YOU Doing? / The Kaiser is Canned-Can Food vintage poster

J. Paul Verrees What Are YOU Doing? / The Kaiser is Canned-Can Food vintage poster 1918 offset lithograph in colors 33 h x 22 w in (84 x 56 cm) A humorous and delightful vintage illustration produced by the National War Garden Commission, this poster features a caricature of German Emperor Wilhelm II literally "canned" inside a glass food jar. During the First World War, as troops and supplies were diverted overseas to support U.S. allies, food resources on the home front became scarce. The War Garden Commission utilized J. Paul Verrees' playful style to invite the public to take part in the "war garden" movement. By framing food preservation as a direct blow to the enemy, the poster transforms a domestic chore into a patriotic triumph. The whimsical nature of the illustration and the bright, bold colors of the garden produce make this a standout example of lighthearted but effective wartime propaganda. An example of this poster is held in the collection of The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein Literature: Rawls, p. 119 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 128 - Edward Penfield, Join the United States School Garden Army / Enlist Now / World War I vintage poster

Edward Penfield Join the United States School Garden Army / Enlist Now / World War I vintage poster 1918 30 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) Best known for his poster designs for Harper's Magazine in the early 20th century, Edward Penfield created this poster to encourage the American youth to be productive members of the society during wartime. Founded in 1917 during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, the United States School Garden Army encouraged children ages 9-15 to grow food as part of the national wartime effort during World War I. Supported by the Bureau of Education and funded by the War Department, the program promoted gardening as a patriotic duty, with young participants proudly dubbed "Soldiers of the Soil" in the campaign to prevent food shortages at home. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. American Lithographic Co., New York This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 129 - Dewey, 2nd Liberty Loan / Our Daddy is Fighting at the Front for You / World War I vintage poster

Dewey 2nd Liberty Loan / Our Daddy is Fighting at the Front for You / World War I vintage poster 1917 30 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) Appealing to wartime duty and personal sacrifice, this World War I Liberty Loan poster reminds civilians that soldiers "at the front" are fighting on their behalf, urging them to "back him up" by investing in government bonds. Issued during the 2nd Liberty Loan campaign of 1917, it reflects the U.S. government's broader effort to finance the war through patriotic appeals that linked financial support at home to survival and success on the battlefield. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. The T.F. Moore Co., New York Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 130 - World War I : Three vintage posters

World War I : Three vintage posters 1918-19 offset lithograph in colors 19.5 h x 14.25 w in (50 x 36 cm) 16.125 h x 20 w in (41 x 51 cm) 11.75 h x 16 w in (30 x 41 cm) These works reflect the experience of African American soldiers during World War I, particularly those who served in segregated military units despite widespread racial discrimination at home. More than 350,000 Black men joined the U.S. military during the war, with approximately 42,000 serving in combat in Europe. Among the most celebrated units was the 369th Infantry Regiment, later known as the Harlem Hellfighters, whose members earned international recognition for their bravery, including Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, the first Americans awarded the French Croix de Guerre. At the same time, these portrayals reveal the contradiction at the heart of American wartime ideals. Black Americans were called upon to demonstrate patriotism, loyalty, and sacrifice in defense of democracy abroad, even as segregation and unequal treatment remained firmly entrenched within the United States and the military itself. The imagery and messaging surrounding Black soldiers during this period often emphasized unity, courage, and national service while implicitly exposing the hypocrisy of a nation demanding equality overseas without fully granting it at home. Lot is comprised of The Return of the Colored Troops, Colored Man is No Slacker, and Our Colored Heroes. E.G. Renesch, Chicago (two examples) This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 131 - G. Mellinger, Kommt zur Reichswehr! vintage poster

G. Mellinger Kommt zur Reichswehr! vintage poster c. 1919 19.125 h x 14.25 w in (49 x 36 cm) Issued in the aftermath of World War I during the early Weimar Republic, this recruitment poster calling "Join the Reichswehr!" appeals to Bavarian identity through the image of a large bell inscribed "BAYERN," symbolizing a regional summons to duty and order. Produced as Germany's defeated military was being reorganized into the limited Reichswehr, the design reflects efforts to stabilize the new republic by encouraging enlistment amid political unrest, demobilization, and fears of revolutionary violence. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. Kunstanstalt Graphia, Munchen This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 132 - Otto Arpke, Zaudert nicht, sondern meldet Euch / World War I vintage poster

Otto Arpke Zaudert nicht, sondern meldet Euch / World War I vintage poster 1919 37.25 h x 27.75 w in (95 x 70 cm) Designed by Otto Arpke, German artist well-known for his Art Deco graphics, this recruitment poster shows the hardened face of a helmeted soldier beside the command "Zaudert nicht, sondern meldet Euch" ("Do not hesitate, but sign up"), urging young men to join the Freiwilligen Division Lettow-Vorbeck. Produced during the unstable aftermath of World War I, the work reflects the rise of nationalist Freikorps militias in Germany, which recruited demobilized soldiers and volunteers to combat revolutionary unrest and defend conservative political interests in the early Weimar Republic. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. J. Sauer G.m.b.H., Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 133 - Lucian Bernhard, Das ist der Weg zum sieg / World War I (larger two-sheet format) vintage poster

Lucian Bernhard Das ist der Weg zum sieg / World War I (larger two-sheet format) vintage poster c. 1918 overall: 56 h x 37.5 w in (142 x 95 cm) upper: 28.5 h x 37.5 w in (72 x 95 cm) lower: 28.5 h x 37.5 w in (72 x 95 cm) A clenched gauntlet hammers down across the composition juxtaposed with bold gothic text in this powerful World War I-era poster by German-born posterist Lucian Bernhard. The text reads: "Das ist der Weg zum Frieden-die Feinde wollen es so! Darum zeichne Kriegsanleihe!" ("That is the way to peace-The enemies want it so! Subscribe to war loans"). This is the larger, two-sheet format. A smaller-format example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. W. Hagelberg AG, Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 134 - Lucian Bernhard, Spar-Pramienanleihe / 10 mal 1,000,000 / World War I vintage poster

Lucian Bernhard Spar-Pramienanleihe / 10 mal 1,000,000 / World War I vintage poster c. 1918 27.25 h x 37.375 w in (69 x 95 cm) This poster promoted a German premium savings bond, offering the chance to win substantial cash prizes while encouraging public financial support for the wartime economy. Bernhard, who worked on official propaganda and advertising campaigns for the German government during World War I, was also a pioneering figure in modern graphic design and helped define the bold, simplified visual language known as Plakatstil (Poster Style), which emphasized strong typography, flat color, and immediate visual impact. This is the version with the red text box overprint. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 135 - Lucian Bernhard, Das ist der Weg zum sieg / World War I (smaller one-sheet format) vintage poster

Lucian Bernhard Das ist der Weg zum sieg / World War I (smaller one-sheet format) vintage poster c. 1918 33.875 h x 22.625 w in (86 x 57 cm) A clenched gauntlet hammers down across the composition juxtaposed with bold gothic text in this powerful World War I-era poster by German-born posterist Lucian Bernhard. The text reads: "Das ist der Weg zum Frieden-die Feinde wollen es so! Darum zeichne Kriegsanleihe!" ("That is the way to peace-The enemies want it so! Subscribe to war loans"). This is the smaller one-sheet format. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Ver. Kunstinstitute A.G. vorm. Otto Troitsch, Berlin-Schoneberg This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 136 - Julius Ussy Engelhard, Das Wolfchen / Deutsche Luftkriegsbeute Ausstellung, Munchen / World War I vintage poster

Julius Ussy Engelhard Das Wolfchen / Deutsche Luftkriegsbeute Ausstellung, Munchen / World War I vintage poster 1918 overall: 55 h x 37.25 w in (140 x 95 cm) upper sheet: 28.75 h x 37.25 w in (73 x 95 cm) lower sheet: 27.5 h x 37.25 w in (70 x 95 cm) This poster advertises the German Air War Loot Exhibition in Munich, a wartime display of captured aircraft and military trophies intended to promote patriotic enthusiasm during the final year of World War I. Featuring the seaplane "Das Wolfchen" soaring above African figures, the work reflects both Germany's fascination with military aviation and the colonial stereotypes commonly employed in European propaganda and popular imagery of the era. This is a two-sheet poster. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 137 - Heinrich Jager, Die Woche, Kriegsjahr 1914 (The Week, Year of War) / World War I vintage poster

Heinrich Jager Die Woche, Kriegsjahr 1914 (The Week, Year of War) / World War I vintage poster 1914 overall: 54.5 h x 37.375 w in (138 x 95 cm) upper sheet: 28.25 h x 37.375 w in (72 x 95 cm) lower sheet: 27.25 h x 37.375 w in (69 x 95 cm) Created during the opening year of World War I, this two-sheet poster by Heinrich Jager advertises the illustrated German weekly Die Woche by depicting three soldiers gathered around a shared issue above the slogan "Wer Die Woche liest, liest Weltgeschichte" ("He who reads Die Woche reads world history"). Combining commercial advertising with wartime propaganda, the image presents the magazine as an essential link between the front lines and rapidly unfolding wartime events, encouraging soldiers and civilians alike to remain informed and engaged with the conflict. Top sheet and bottom sheet of this poster are both held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 138 - Fritz Erler, Und Ihr? / Zeichnet Kriegsanleihe / World War I vintage poster

Fritz Erler Und Ihr? / Zeichnet Kriegsanleihe / World War I vintage poster c. 1918 overall: 54.75 h x 37.25 w in (139 x 95 cm) upper sheet: 28.5 h x 37.25 w in (72 x 95 cm) lower sheet: 27.5 h x 37.25 w in (70 x 95 cm) Fritz Erler, a prominent Munich-based artist associated with Symbolism and later wartime propaganda art, designed this work during World War I, featuring a stern German aviator staring directly at the viewer with text "Und Ihr? Zeichnet Kriegsanleihe" ("And You? Subscribe to the War Loan"). By confronting the audience with the serviceman's steady gaze, the image urged civilians to support Germany's military campaign financially through the purchase of war bonds, a central fundraising strategy used by many combatant nations during the war. This is the larger, two-sheet version of the poster. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 139 - G. Halemann, Spendet Gaben fur die Kolonial-Kriegerspende / World War I vintage poster

G. Halemann Spendet Gaben fur die Kolonial-Kriegerspende / World War I vintage poster c. 1918 28.75 h x 18.5 w in (73 x 47 cm) This World War I-era poster for the Kolonial-Kriegerspende (Colonial Warrior Donation) calls on the public to financially support troops serving in overseas protectorates, including campaigns in East Africa and Cameroon, where the war extended into Germany's colonial possessions. Depicting a weary Schutztruppe soldier holding a damaged Imperial flag, and featuring a quote attributed to Paul von Hindenburg, the image frames colonial warfare as a patriotic duty and urges donations to defend German imperial interests against Allied advances. Rotophot A-G, Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 140 - Georges Rogier, Helft ihm! Grenzspende fur Oberschlesien vintage poster

Georges Rogier Helft ihm! Grenzspende fur Oberschlesien vintage poster 1921 37.25 h x 28 w in (95 x 71 cm) Created for the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite campaign, this work portrays a German miner confronting a threatening eagle wearing a Czapka (Polish military cap), a symbolic image meant to dramatize the political and economic struggle over the heavily industrialized border region. Issued under the slogan "Help him! Border donation for Upper Silesia", the work encouraged financial contributions to support German nationalist efforts during the internationally supervised vote that would determine whether Upper Silesia remained part of Germany or was transferred to Poland. Gehring & Reimers, G.m.b.H., Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 141 - Schlesier seid auf der Hut! - Der Tod Eures Wohlstandes naht sich vintage poster

Schlesier seid auf der Hut! - Der Tod Eures Wohlstandes naht sich vintage poster 1921 28 h x 18.5 w in (71 x 47 cm) Issued during the tense campaign surrounding the March 20, 1921 Upper Silesian plebiscite, this poster portrays Poland as the "death of your wellbeing," reflecting German efforts to persuade the region's industrial population to remain within Germany rather than join the newly re-established Polish state after World War I. The vote took place in the economically vital and ethnically mixed region of Upper Silesia, where many German officials, industrialists, and urban workers feared that incorporation into Poland would threaten economic stability, industrial productivity, and existing social conditions amid the political uncertainty of postwar Eastern Europe. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Lebendiges Museum Online, Deutsches Historisches Museum. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 142 - Mein Korbchen liegt Dir wohl im Sinn? / Upper Silesia Plebiscite vintage poster

Mein Korbchen liegt Dir wohl im Sinn? / Upper Silesia Plebiscite vintage poster 1921 18.875 h x 21.125 w in (48 x 54 cm) This poster uses allegory to portray Poland as a predatory wolf attempting to seize a basket representing Silesia from a small girl symbolizing Germany, reflecting heightened nationalist anxieties over territorial loss after World War I. Referencing the wider unrest of the Silesian Uprisings, the image frames the plebiscite-era struggle for the region as a vulnerable nation defending itself against external aggression. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 143 - Achtung Oberschlesier - Wahlt Deutsch vintage poster

Achtung Oberschlesier - Wahlt Deutsch vintage poster 1921 40.5 h x 26.625 w in (103 x 68 cm) Produced during the contentious 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, this German poster warns voters against incorporation into Poland by depicting a looming Polish military cap rising above the region's industrial landscape, with a skull emerging from its shadow as a symbol of danger and instability. Issued amid fierce nationalist campaigning after World War I, the image reflects German efforts to persuade Upper Silesian residents to remain within Germany during the internationally supervised vote over the region's future sovereignty. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museums, London. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 144 - L. Zunderer, Wahlt Bayerische Volkspartei (Vote Bavarian People's Party) vintage poster

L. Zunderer Wahlt Bayerische Volkspartei (Vote Bavarian People's Party) vintage poster c. 1920 43.25 h x 32.25 w in (110 x 82 cm) Issued during the turbulent years following the collapse of the German Empire and the rise of revolutionary socialist movements, this poster for the Bavarian People's Party uses Bavaria's blue-and-white flag, firmly anchored amid a sea of red, to symbolize stability against the perceived threat of communism and political upheaval. Closely tied to conservative Catholic and regional Bavarian interests in the early Weimar era, the party positioned itself as a defender of Bavarian identity and traditional order at a time when Germany faced revolution, economic uncertainty, and deep ideological division. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. Lith. u. Druck Dr C. Wolf, Munchen This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 145 - German, Three vintage posters

German Three vintage posters c. 1916-20 26.625 h x 19.75 w in (68 x 50 cm) 28.375 h x 19 w in (72 x 48 cm) 23.5 h x 17.625 w in (60 x 45 cm) Wird Weihnachten auch eine Sorgenlose! (May Christmas also be a carefree one!) encourages charitable giving during the Christmas season. A Christmas tree lit with candles rises above an industrial landscape of factories and smokestacks, visually linking holiday generosity with support for workers or wartime relief efforts. Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) / Wahret die Einheit Schlesiens! (Preserve the Unity of Silesia) emphasizes the importance of keeping all of Silesia united, claiming that it belongs to the Motherland, Germany. Kriegs-Echo by Walter Buhe advertises the weekly war news magazine published during World War I. Lot is comprised of Wird Weihnachten auch eine Sorgenlose!, Oberschlesien / Wahret die Einheit Schlesiens! by Adolf Munzer, and Kriegs-Echo by Walter Buhe. Grass, Barth & Comp. W. Friedrich, Breslau (one example) Kunstanstalt Emil Saaz, Berlin-Schoneberg (additional example) This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 146 - Not, Elend Hunger, Zerstorung der Balschemismus (anti-Bolshevism) poster

Not, Elend Hunger, Zerstorung der Balschemismus (anti-Bolshevism) poster c. 1919 24.375 h x 18 w in (62 x 46 cm) From the early Weimar Republic, this anti-communist propaganda poster by the Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolschewismus (Association for the Fight against Bolshevism) warns against revolutionary upheaval by linking Bolshevism to devastation, famine, and social breakdown. Showing a distressed rural family witnessing their farm destroyed and livestock seized, it reflects the intense post-World War I fear in Germany that political radicalism would lead to economic collapse and violent disorder in everyday life. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museums, London. Heymann & Schmidt, A-G, Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 147 - Deutsche Volkspartei (German People's Party) vintage poster

Deutsche Volkspartei (German People's Party) vintage poster c. 1920 35.25 h x 23.5 w in (90 x 60 cm) Made during the politically fragmented interwar period of the Weimar Republic, this poster references two liberal-conservative and centrist parties-the Deutsche Volkspartei and the Deutsche demokratische Partei-which sought to stabilize Germany's parliamentary system amid economic crisis and rising extremism. The imagery of the Imperial eagle, civic architecture, and ceremonial laurel and oak wreaths evokes continuity with pre-revolutionary German state traditions, signaling a call for unity and constitutional order during a time of deep political division and uncertainty in the 1920s. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museums, London. Fritz Schneller und Co., Nurnberg This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 148 - Grafton Arts Ltd., Labour Fights Wars Then Pays for Them / Disarm! (Rare vintage poster)

Grafton Arts Ltd. Labour Fights Wars Then Pays for Them / Disarm! (Rare vintage poster) c. 1918 29.5 h x 19.5 w in (75 x 50 cm) This poster reflects interwar socialist and pacifist criticism of militarism, arguing that working-class people both suffer the human costs of war and shoulder its financial burden through taxation and economic hardship. It was intended as anti-war political messaging, promoting disarmament and appealing to Labour and trade union audiences who were especially sensitive to the unequal distribution of war's costs after World War I. An example of this exceedingly rare poster is held in the collection of the National Army Museum, London, under reference number 1977-6-81-35. Grafton Arts Ltd, London Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 149 - The Labour Party / I am Voting Labour vintage poster

The Labour Party / I am Voting Labour vintage poster c. 1929 39.5 h x 30 w in (100 x 76 cm) The Labour Party's 1929 U.K. general election campaign, led by Ramsay MacDonald, focused on addressing mass unemployment and expanding social welfare through public works and state intervention in the economy, at a time of widespread economic insecurity in industrial Britain. Many working-class voters, represented in this poster by a middle-aged working-class woman holding groceries, were drawn to its promises of job creation and broader social reform in response to post-World War I decline and the hardships of the 1926 General Strike aftermath. Scottish Labour MP Arthur Woodburn visited the Soviet Union in 1932 and returned with posters that he later donated to the National Library of Scotland; it is likely that this design was among the materials he brought with him on that visit, either as a gift or through a cultural exchange. (National Library of Scotland). An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. J. Howitt & Son, Nottingham Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 150 - The Labour Party / Why I am Voting Labour vintage poster

The Labour Party / Why I am Voting Labour vintage poster c. 1929 29.75 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) The Labour Party's 1929 U.K. general election campaign, led by Ramsay MacDonald, focused on addressing mass unemployment and expanding social welfare through public works and state intervention in the economy, at a time of widespread economic insecurity in industrial Britain. Many working-class voters, represented in this poster by a middle-aged working-class man with a newsboy cap and a smoking pipe, were drawn to its promises of job creation and broader social reform in response to post-World War I decline and the hardships of the 1926 General Strike aftermath. Scottish Labour MP Arthur Woodburn visited the Soviet Union in 1932 and returned with posters that he later donated to the National Library of Scotland; it is likely that this design was among the materials he brought with him on that visit, either as a gift or through a cultural exchange. (National Library of Scotland). An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. J. Howitt & Son, Nottingham Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 151 - End Bread Lines / Vote Socialist vintage poster

End Bread Lines / Vote Socialist vintage poster 1932 18.25 h x 22 w in (46 x 56 cm) Produced by the Socialist Party of America for the 1932 presidential campaign of Norman Thomas, this poster uses the stark image of a breadline to underscore the widespread unemployment and economic hardship that defined the depths of the Great Depression in the United States. A democratic socialist and outspoken advocate for labor rights, civil liberties, and public welfare programs, Thomas positioned his campaign as an alternative to both unchecked capitalism and political complacency, arguing for systemic economic reform at a moment when millions of Americans faced poverty and food insecurity. Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 152 - Norman Rockwell, Boy Scouts Jamboree (Rare vintage poster)

Norman Rockwell Boy Scouts Jamboree (Rare vintage poster) 1937 42 h x 27.5 w in (107 x 70 cm) Set against the backdrop of the Washington Monument and a bald eagle, this inviting design promotes the first Boy Scout Jamboree. The design actually first appeared for a 1935 event; however, the Jamboree was canceled due to an outbreak of polio and was rescheduled for 1937. Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein Literature: PAI-LXIII, 522 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 153 - Helen McKie, The British Sailors' Society / Anchor Day vintage poster

Helen McKie The British Sailors' Society / Anchor Day vintage poster 1940 29 h x 19.25 w in (74 x 49 cm) Helen McKie was a British artist and illustrator celebrated for her charming and authentic snapshots of U.K. life. This poster harnesses her characteristically friendly, energetic style to promote Anchor Day; a 1940 national day of recognition and fundraising for naval servicemen. The composition features a vessel crashing through a rich, deep blue surf, and sailors sporting wide, spirited grins. McKie's illustrative approach creates an atmosphere of jaunty optimism that borders on the surreal, perfectly capturing the "keep smiling" ethos of the era. As a rare piece of British WWII ephemera, it serves as a shining example of national unity and public support during the height of the conflict. The Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd., London Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 154 - Laissez-nous Tranquilles! vintage poster

Laissez-nous Tranquilles! vintage poster 1941 45 h x 32 w in (114 x 81 cm) The poster was issued during World War II by the Vichy government, a collaborationist pro-Nazi regime in France. It portrays enemies of the regime as menacing black dogs and snakes, labeled as "Franc-Maconnerie" (Freemasonry), "le Juif" (the Jew), "de Gaulle" (referring to Charles de Gaulle), and "le Mensonge" (the Lie). The artwork promotes an idealized rural French life, showing a worker digging and a woman planting, symbolized by a sunrise representing a "rebirth" of France. G. Mazeyrie, Imprimeur, Paris This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 155 - Soldat, Hande weg! vintage poster

Soldat, Hande weg! vintage poster c. 1941 21.375 h x 14.25 w in (54 x 36 cm) Designed to incite hatred and reinforce Nazi racial ideology, this 1940s era poster utilizes a dehumanizing caricature of a Jewish man to perpetuate tropes of greed and conspiracy. Distributed by German forces in occupied France, the image served as a calculated psychological tool to alienate the Jewish population and justify state-sponsored persecution. As a stark historical landmark, this work exemplifies how visual media was weaponized to facilitate the Holocaust. It remains a grim testament to the role of propaganda in de-humanization. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 156 - Willem Seghers, Mussolini / Haile Selassie / Italie / Abyssinie vintage poster

Willem Seghers Mussolini / Haile Selassie / Italie / Abyssinie vintage poster 1935 33.375 h x 23 w in (85 x 58 cm) "At first glance, this poster map appears to be a typical product of Italian fascism in the mid-1930s, a boastful view of that nation's triumphs in Africa. A large image of a belligerent Mussolini at the top towers over a map of East Africa, above a smaller figure of Abyssinian Emperor Haile Selassie in an almost comical crown. In fact, this poster is not an Italian product at all. It was created by a Belgian mapmaker, produced in Antwerp by a Belgian publisher, with text in Dutch and French, the two languages of Belgium. It was likely produced during the long period in the spring and summer of 1935 when Mussolini repeatedly threatened war, and Haile Selassie sought in vain to enlist the League of Nations on his behalf. (The map is plainly prewar: the Italian flag flies elsewhere in East Africa, but not in Abyssinia.) Mussolini looks like a bully, and his words to Italian troops give no doubt as to his intentions: 'Fascist forces will shake the five continents. You will conquer and possess Abyssinia.' Haile Selassie's words are quite different: 'I want peace and will submit to the decision of the League of Nations.'" (PJ Mode via Cornell University Library). This is the French-language version of the design. A variant example of this poster is held in the collection of the Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY. Patria N.V., Antwerpen Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 157 - La Derrota de Hitler en Rusia (Hitler's Defeat in Russia) vintage film poster

La Derrota de Hitler en Rusia (Hitler's Defeat in Russia) vintage film poster c. 1943-45 43.375 h x 29.375 w in (110 x 75 cm) This Spanish-language poster promotes a wartime documentary La Derrota de Hitler en Rusia ("Hitler's Defeat in Russia") presented by Radium Films, celebrating the Allied advance against Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II. Featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin alongside a broken swastika sprouting new life, the poster employs powerful symbolism to emphasize Allied unity and the collapse of Nazism while promoting documentary footage reportedly captured from German forces and Soviet military archives. Aff. Sisto, Lemme & Cia, Buenos Aires This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 158 - Jean Carlu, Untitled (Defeating the Reichsadler, Imperial Eagle) : Maquette

Jean Carlu Untitled (Defeating the Reichsadler, Imperial Eagle) : Maquette c. 1944 gouache on paper 11.5 h x 15.5 w in (29 x 39 cm) An outspoken anti-fascist who firmly supported the Allied cause, Carlu's wartime graphics combined bold modernist forms, simplified symbolism, and dramatic contrasts that made them especially effective as propaganda images. The present work is a rare original World War II-era maquette depicting the Nazi Imperial Eagle pierced through the heart by a bayonet: a stark yet powerful image embodying the collective determination to defeat Nazi Germany. After moving to the United States during the war, Carlu designed a number of influential posters for the U.S. government promoting industrial production and home-front labor, including works such as America's Answer! / Production and Give 'Em Both Barrels, which linked factory work directly to military victory. Signed to lower right 'Jean Carlu'. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 159 - After Boris Yefimov, TASS / What is an Aryan? He is Handsome as Goebbels vintage poster

After Boris Yefimov TASS / What is an Aryan? He is Handsome as Goebbels vintage poster 1941 screenprint in colors 28.25 h x 20 w in (72 x 51 cm) Created as part of the Soviet TASS Window number 22 anti-Nazi poster campaign, this satirical image grotesquely transforms Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels into a rat-like creature with a swastika tail, mocking the Nazi obsession with so-called "Aryan" racial purity. Designed shortly after Operation Barbarossa, the image reflects the Soviet Union's intensified wartime use of caricature and ridicule to demonize Nazi leadership and rally public resistance during the early months of the German invasion. This example is from the edition published by Russian War Relief, once the largest American entity for foreign war relief that was in fact a front organization for the USSR. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. Russian War Relief Inc., USA Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Windows on the War, p. 169 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 160 - After Sergei Kostin, TASS / Chain Him! vintage poster

After Sergei Kostin TASS / Chain Him! vintage poster 1941 screenprint in colors 20 h x 28.25 w in (51 x 72 cm) This poster depicts a disturbing, satirical human-dog hybrid creature resembling Adolf Hitler, marked with a swastika armband and shown chained behind bars. The image was originally created as TASS Window number 109 by Moscow-trained graphic artist Sergei Nikolaevich Kostin, who studied at the State Free Art Studios and later worked across publishing, exhibition design, and the Bolshoi Theatre. Kostin designed a total of 59 TASS posters between 1941 and 1946. This example is from the edition published by Russian War Relief, once the largest American entity for foreign war relief that was in fact a front organization for the USSR.<br><br>An example of this poster was featured in the exhibition Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad 1941-1945 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Russian War Relief Inc., USA Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Windows on the War, p. 125 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 161 - After Isaak Rabichev, The Enemy Shall Never Escape Our Wrath vintage poster

After Isaak Rabichev The Enemy Shall Never Escape Our Wrath vintage poster 1941 screenprint in colors 28.25 h x 20 w in (72 x 51 cm) This poster features a powerful image of armed peasants with resolute expressions set against a blazing sky, created by Kyiv-born artist Isaac Rabichev. He produced anti-fascist and revolutionary posters throughout the 1930s and World War II, including works for Soviet publishing houses and TASS-affiliated wartime campaigns, distinguished by stark emotional compositions, expressive figures, and urgent calls to resistance during World War II. This example is from the edition published by Russian War Relief, once the largest American entity for foreign war relief that was in fact a front organization for the USSR. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Russian War Relief Inc., USA Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Windows on the War, p. 125 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 162 - TASS / Zhytomyr Liberated! vintage poster

TASS / Zhytomyr Liberated! vintage poster 1943 48 h x 29.25 w in (122 x 74 cm) The TASS Windows were a series of hand-stenciled Soviet propaganda posters produced under the TASS news agency during World War II and displayed in shop windows across the USSR to rapidly communicate news, satire, and morale-boosting political messages using bold designs. While created primarily for domestic Soviet audiences, selected works and reproductions were also circulated or exhibited abroad as wartime cultural propaganda, including in Britain and the United States, as part of broader Allied information efforts. This poster, TASS number 859, depicts a fallen Hitler with a broken axe, struck down by a large red lightning bolt symbolizing the Soviet Union. Provenance: Collection of Albert Boni (1892-1981), American literary publisher | Thence by descent | Thence by descent to the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 163 - Paul Colin, Victoire / Ils Meurent Pour Vous vintage poster

Paul Colin Victoire / Ils Meurent Pour Vous vintage poster c. 1945 23.375 h x 15.5 w in (59 x 39 cm) The association Organisme National d'Aide aux Combattants (National Combatant Assistance Organization) was founded in 1916 to help wounded soldiers and their families. Because of the present-tense text which reads "They die for you," it was most likely printed just before the liberation of France. On the soldier's arm is the cross of Lorraine, who was the symbol of the resistance under de Gaulle. De Plas, Paris This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 164 - Eric (Raoul Eric Castel), Engage-toi dans l'Armee de l'Air vintage poster

Eric (Raoul Eric Castel) Engage-toi dans l'Armee de l'Air vintage poster 1941 46.75 h x 31.25 w in (119 x 79 cm) By 1941, France was already in the midst of World War II and divided between the German-occupied zone and the collaborationist Vichy regime under Marshal Philippe Petain. Because the 1940 armistice sharply limited the size of the French army, the Vichy government launched volunteer military recruitment drives through newspapers, rallies, and illustrated posters that promoted enlistment in colonial units, air-defense forces, and other approved formations as patriotic service to a "renewed" France. This recruitment poster for the French Air Force features a handsome young man with a big smile sitting atop a fighter jet. Edition du Secretariat General de l'Information, Vichy This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 165 - Jacques Sogno-Bezza, Engages-Vous Rengagez-Vous dans les Troupes Coloniales vintage poster

Jacques Sogno-Bezza Engages-Vous Rengagez-Vous dans les Troupes Coloniales vintage poster c. 1940 31.875 h x 22.25 w in (81 x 57 cm) Les Troupes Coloniales, or the French Colonial Troops, were officially established in 1900 as the successor to the Troupes de Marine. Composed of both indigenous soldiers from French West and Central Africa, Madagascar, and Indochina, as well as French settlers living in those territories, the force expanded significantly during the turbulent first half of the 20th century. By 1939, on the eve of World War II, large numbers of colonial troops had been mobilized in support of France's war effort. This poster formed part of that broader recruitment campaign, for which Sogno-Bezza produced a handful of atmospheric designs distinguished by their painterly quality rather than the more overtly aggressive visual language typical of wartime propaganda. Imp. Mont-Louis, Clermont-Ferrand & Paris Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 166 - Leslie Ragan, Free a Man to Fight / World War II vintage poster

Leslie Ragan Free a Man to Fight / World War II vintage poster 1943 28 h x 20 w in (71 x 51 cm) While best known for his work in promotion of travel aboard the New York Central System, here Ragan advertises the many jobs available to women at his primary employer. From the offices and shops to the more technical positions at the stations and on the trains, each woman working at New York Central would allow another man to fight overseas. An example of this poster is held in the collection of The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI. Brett Lithographic Co., USA Literature: PAI-XCII, 79 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 167 - U.S. Army / Airacobra / Poison to the Axis vintage poster

U.S. Army / Airacobra / Poison to the Axis vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 39.25 h x 28.375 w in (100 x 72 cm) One of the main American fighter aircrafts during World War II, the Airacobra racked up the highest number of direct kills of any U.S. aircraft. Here, as a U.S. plane soars upward firing its guns, a German plane falls out of the sky trailing black smoke. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 168 - J. Graham Kaye, U.S. Army / The Flying Fortress is One of the Hardest Hitting Planes of All Time vintage poster

J. Graham Kaye U.S. Army / The Flying Fortress is One of the Hardest Hitting Planes of All Time vintage poster 1943 25.125 h x 38 w in (64 x 97 cm) This original U.S. Army poster from the World War II-era features the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in all its mustard yellow glory. The simple yet bold graphic design work attracts the eyes to the sleek figure of the aircraft. Smoke billows in the background and another plane spirals downwards in the distance, the B-17 having emerged victorious. It's a sincere and stylish promotion of the damage that the aircraft was capable of, and a reminder of one of history's great plane designs. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 169 - Melbourne Brindle, U.S. Army / Warhawks Are Killers! vintage poster

Melbourne Brindle U.S. Army / Warhawks Are Killers! vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 39.25 h x 28.375 w in (100 x 72 cm) This wartime poster celebrates Allied pilots "beating Hitler's best" by depicting the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk in aggressive combat, diving through enemy formations with guns blazing as German aircraft are driven from the sky. While the P-40 saw its strongest service earlier in World War II, notably across multiple Allied theaters where it helped hold the line against Luftwaffe forces, it became a powerful symbol in propaganda imagery of American air power and momentum against Nazi Germany. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 170 - George Giusti, U.S. Army / No Medium Bomber Has a Finer War Record Than Your Mitchell vintage poster

George Giusti U.S. Army / No Medium Bomber Has a Finer War Record Than Your Mitchell vintage poster 1943 25.125 h x 38 w in (64 x 97 cm) George Giusti, a forward-thinking and progressive designer, was among the elite illustrators who lent their modern sensibilities to the U.S. Army's poster campaigns during World War II. In this piece, Giusti utilizes his pioneering compositional skills to create a work that is remarkably sleek, minimalist, and direct. The poster highlights the North American B-25 Mitchell, emphasizing its distinguished service record through a clean, architectural layout. By stripping away unnecessary clutter, Giusti focuses the viewer's eye on the sophisticated form of the aircraft, celebrating it as a triumph of modern engineering. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 171 - U.S. Army / Marauders Always Attack! vintage poster

U.S. Army / Marauders Always Attack! vintage poster 1943 39.25 h x 28.125 w in (100 x 71 cm) Sweeping over a smoke-choked cityscape from a stark overhead perspective, the Martin B-26 Marauder is depicted as a fast, hard-hitting medium bomber used by the U.S. Army Air Forces for precision strikes against enemy infrastructure and fortified positions across both the European and Pacific theaters. Despite its early reputation for demanding handling, the Marauder ultimately earned one of the lowest loss rates among Allied bombers, becoming a trusted workhorse for tactical bombing campaigns that helped disrupt Axis supply lines and urban strongholds during World War II. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 172 - U.S. Army / Mustangs Ride Nazis Down! vintage poster

U.S. Army / Mustangs Ride Nazis Down! vintage poster 1943 38 h x 25.125 w in (97 x 64 cm) Striking out low over a rail line in a violent attack run, the North American P-51 Mustang is shown executing one of its most important wartime roles as a long-range escort and ground-attack fighter, delivering precision strikes against enemy supply and transport networks deep behind German lines. Armed with both speed and endurance, the Mustang became a defining aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, helping cripple logistics through strafing and bombing missions while maintaining air superiority across the European theater. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 173 - Earle B. Winslow, U.S. Army / Flying Fortress / Deadly Queen of the Skies vintage poster

Earle B. Winslow U.S. Army / Flying Fortress / Deadly Queen of the Skies vintage poster 1943 43 h x 31 w in (109 x 79 cm) Developed by Boeing in the 1930s and deployed across every WWII combat theater, the B-17 Flying Fortress became America's most iconic heavy bomber. It is a four-engine titan best known for its daylight precision bombing raids against German industrial targets, its formidable armament of up to thirteen machine guns, and its legendary ability to absorb catastrophic damage and still carry its crew home. This poster was the work of Earle B. Winslow, a Michigan-born illustrator who honed his craft at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League under the tutelage of George Bellows, built a celebrated career as a contributor to The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Outdoor Life, and during the war years was commissioned by the U.S. Marines and the Forestry Service to produce posters and instructional materials. An example of this poster is held in the collection of The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 174 - U.S. Army / Thunderbolts Blast 'Em! vintage poster

U.S. Army / Thunderbolts Blast 'Em! vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 25.125 h x 38 w in (64 x 97 cm) Issued during the height of America's air war in Europe and the Pacific, this U.S. Army poster celebrates the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt as a symbol of Allied air power, depicting the heavily armed fighter planes diving into combat. Known for its rugged construction, high-altitude performance, and devastating ground-attack capabilities, the P-47 became one of the most important American fighter aircraft of World War II and a powerful emblem of the Army Air Forces' expanding dominance in the skies. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 175 - Jo Kotula, U.S. Army / Liberator of Conquered Nations vintage poster

Jo Kotula U.S. Army / Liberator of Conquered Nations vintage poster 1943 41.75 h x 30 w in (106 x 76 cm) Jo Kotula spent a lifetime illustrating every facet of aviation, and given his technical mastery, it is no surprise that the U.S. Army Air Forces leveraged his talents to project American industrial and military strength. In this poster, Kotula utilizes a limited, high-contrast color palette and a dramatic tagline to create a pulsing sense of urgency and resolve. A perfect formation of B-24 Liberators marches through a dense shroud of smoke, providing a powerful visual metaphor for clearing the path toward a liberated future. The scale of these magnificent, impressive machines dominates the composition, emphasizing the overwhelming momentum of the Allied effort. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 176 - U.S. Army / Your Lightning Has Outscored the Axis Wherever It Has Fought vintage poster

U.S. Army / Your Lightning Has Outscored the Axis Wherever It Has Fought vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 38 h x 25.125 w in (97 x 64 cm) Diving through a crimson sky with guns blazing, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning is shown in its element as one of the U.S. Army Air Forces' most versatile long-range fighters, feared for its speed, heavy firepower, and effectiveness in both air-to-air combat and ground attack across the Pacific and European theaters. The composition underscores the Lightning's wartime reputation as a decisive escort and interception aircraft, capable of striking enemy formations with sudden, overwhelming force while supporting Allied air superiority. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 177 - U.S. Army / Lightning Strikes the Axis! vintage poster

U.S. Army / Lightning Strikes the Axis! vintage poster 1943 28.875 h x 39 w in (73 x 99 cm) This poster celebrates the formidable Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a twin-engine fighter aircraft renowned for its speed, long-range capability, and devastating firepower during World War II. Depicted cutting through smoke and lightning with dramatic force, the poster reflects the P-38's crucial role in bomber escort missions, reconnaissance, and ground attacks across both the European and Pacific theaters. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the UC Berkeley Library, California. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 178 - Paul Rabut, U.S. Army / Mitchells Hit Hard! vintage poster

Paul Rabut U.S. Army / Mitchells Hit Hard! vintage poster 1943 39.5 h x 28.625 w in (100 x 73 cm) The Mitchell bombers were exclusively used during World War II, but they were one of the most famous airplanes employed by the U.S. Army Air Forces: most notably, this model was used by General Jimmy Doolittle in his famous 1942 raid on Japan. An example of this poster is held in the collection of The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 179 - Edmund Franklin Ward, U.S. Army / You Give Him Wings! vintage poster

Edmund Franklin Ward U.S. Army / You Give Him Wings! vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 27.875 h x 20 w in (71 x 51 cm) Edmund Franklin Ward was a prominent American illustrator best known for his vivid historical scenes, adventure imagery, and widely circulated magazine illustrations for publications such as The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. With soft, atmospheric lighting and a romanticized sky framing a pilot in a moment of quiet resolve, the tagline "You Give Him Wings!" served as a powerful call for civilians to support the war effort through conservation and industrial productivity, while Ward's polished commercial style elevated the patriotic message into a dramatic and emotionally persuasive work of wartime art. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 180 - Harry Morse Meyers, U.S. Army / Just Meet Those Schedules, Will You? vintage poster

Harry Morse Meyers U.S. Army / Just Meet Those Schedules, Will You? vintage poster 1944 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) An iconic piece of U.S. Army home-front propaganda, this poster serves as a direct appeal to American factory workers to maintain their rigorous production timelines. Shifting away from the traditional imagery of steel and heavy machinery, Meyers focuses the composition entirely on the human element: a smiling pilot whose mission depends on the domestic supply chain. Devoid of background distractions, the artwork relies on the strength of its character illustration and bold typography to deliver its message. This minimalist approach creates a hauntingly effective call to action, making it a unique and stylistically distinct example of wartime messaging that borders on the intimidating. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 181 - Courtney Allen, U.S. Army / The Commando vintage poster

Courtney Allen U.S. Army / The Commando vintage poster 1943 38 h x 25.125 w in (97 x 64 cm) Produced at the height of World War II, this U.S. Army Air Forces poster depicts soldiers loading field artillery into a Curtiss C-46 Commando, emphasizing the aircraft's crucial role in transporting troops, heavy equipment, and supplies across difficult wartime theaters such as the China-Burma-India front. The dynamic composition was created by Courtney Allen, an American illustrator known for his polished, action-oriented commercial and military imagery, whose work helped translate the scale and technological power of the wartime air effort into compelling visual propaganda for the home front. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 182 - Bettina Steinke, U.S. Army / Keep 'Em Flying! / General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold vintage poster

Bettina Steinke U.S. Army / Keep 'Em Flying! / General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 20.375 w in (102 x 52 cm) Produced during the height of U.S. industrial mobilization in World War II, this work centers on General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold who praised the performance of the Martin B-26 Marauder in campaigns across the Pacific and North Africa as evidence of American manufacturing skill and resilience. Framed with Arnold's authoritative portrait and wartime message, the poster urged civilians to keep production flowing so the aircraft could continue proving they could "take it and get back" in combat. Considered an "aviation pioneer," Arnold is an important figure in the aviation history who learned to fly under the instruction of the Wright brothers and became the only general in U.S. Air Force history to attain a five-star rank, as well as the only officer ever to hold five-star rank in two separate branches of the U.S. military. With glued text line 'The magnificent way Marauders'. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 183 - Anton Bruehl, Free Labor Will Win / World War II vintage poster

Anton Bruehl Free Labor Will Win / World War II vintage poster 1942 40 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) Industrial production in the second World War was a massive undertaking that required a large and specialized labor force. This poster is one of many examples of U.S. propaganda glamourizing the factory worker and upholding their service as a patriotic call to freedom. As a Hollywood photographer, Anton Bruehl, was well-versed in elevating the average man to romantic heights, and that's exactly where he takes the subject in this memorable poster design. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection Literature: Judd, p. 98 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 184 - Emil Bisttram, U.S. Army / Keep That Lumber Coming! vintage poster

Emil Bisttram U.S. Army / Keep That Lumber Coming! vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 40.25 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) This World War II-era "call to action" poster depicts soldiers hauling a heavy timber toward a river crossing, where a bridge is being rapidly constructed, while one figure turns back to shout directly at the viewer, drawing them into the urgency of the scene. Set against a dramatic backdrop of tropical terrain, explosions, and distant artillery fire, the composition reflects the broader wartime propaganda strategy of the U.S. Army to emphasize collective effort, engineering prowess, and immediate mobilization in support of Pacific Theater operations during World War II. Emil Bisttram was a Hungarian-born American modernist painter and teacher best known for his geometric abstractions and as a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group, which sought to express spiritual and metaphysical ideas through non-representational art. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 185 - Peter Helck, U.S. Army / Give Us Lumber for More PT's vintage poster

Peter Helck U.S. Army / Give Us Lumber for More PT's vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 28.375 h x 40 w in (72 x 102 cm) Created during World War II to encourage morale and industrial output in the American lumber and forest products industries, this dramatic poster depicts the famed PT-34 racing away from a burning Japanese vessel after a torpedo strike, celebrating the speed and daring associated with the U.S. Navy's early PT boat operations in the Pacific. Peter Helck was a noted American painter and commercial artist renowned for his dynamic depictions of machinery, transportation, and motorsports, whose energetic style made him a natural choice for wartime propaganda emphasizing industrial power, technical skill, and military action. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, TX. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 186 - Felix Schmidt, U.S. Army / The Yanks Are There! / The Army Needs Lumber for Trucks vintage poster

Felix Schmidt U.S. Army / The Yanks Are There! / The Army Needs Lumber for Trucks vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 39.25 h x 27.875 w in (100 x 71 cm) This evocative piece of American propaganda utilizes a folksy, approachable style to foster cultural pride for a public whose loved ones were serving across the globe. The poster's primary goal was to bridge the distance of the Atlantic and Pacific, creating a spiritual connection through a uniquely potent thread of "Yankee" optimism. Artist Felix Schmidt renders the scene with vibrant energy, filling the composition with wide smiles and soldiers waving in a gesture of camaraderie. By using this friendly, narrative-driven illustrative style, the poster gently invites the viewer to support the war effort and conserve vital resources for the troops. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, TX. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 187 - Harold Von Schmidt, U.S. Army / A Blow to the Axis / More Lumber for the Army vintage poster

Harold Von Schmidt U.S. Army / A Blow to the Axis / More Lumber for the Army vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.375 w in (102 x 72 cm) In this vibrant and commanding illustration for the U.S. Army, Harold Von Schmidt utilizes a high-energy composition to urge the American public toward resource conservation. The poster features a powerful, muscular lumberjack at the center of the action, serving as a heroic personification of the domestic labor force. The urgency of the war effort is rendered beautifully through Von Schmidt's masterful technical skill, utilizing a bright and harmonious color palette that lends the scene a sense of vitality and purpose. The provocative tagline, promising "A Blow to the Axis," directly links industrial labor to the front lines of WWII. With its bold brushwork and soaring perspective, this piece is a premier example of energetic wartime propaganda. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, TX. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 188 - U.S. Army / Wood / Lumber / Construction : Four vintage posters

U.S. Army / Wood / Lumber / Construction : Four vintage posters 1943 23 h x 17 w in (58 x 43 cm) During World War II, the U.S. Army issued posters urging civilians to contribute lumber for urgent wartime construction projects, framing domestic materials as essential to building hangars, pontoon bridges, landing barges, and barracks. These posters linked everyday resource conservation and salvage efforts to frontline military infrastructure, emphasizing that home-front supplies directly enabled rapid expansion and mobility of Allied forces. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (all) Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 189 - U.S. Army / Your Metal Saves Our Convoys - Keep It Coming! vintage poster

U.S. Army / Your Metal Saves Our Convoys - Keep It Coming! vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 28.5 h x 40 w in (72 x 102 cm) This powerful WWII appeal for industrial production captures a high-stakes moment of life or death at sea. Its painterly style lends a surreal, almost fantastical intensity to the depiction of artillery crews, heightening the drama of the wartime scene. Moving beyond a simple request for materials, the artwork positions the everyday citizen as a vital protagonist in the war effort. By framing industrial output as a direct shield for convoys, the poster successfully transforms factory labor into a heroic act of frontline protection. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 190 - U.S. Army / Keep 'Em Shooting! vintage poster

U.S. Army / Keep 'Em Shooting! vintage poster 1942 40 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) This U.S. Army-commissioned call-to-action poster by an anonymous artist delivers its message with striking directness, urging Americans to contribute scrap metals in support of the nation's wartime production needs during World War II. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 191 - U.S. Army / Blast 'Em Out! vintage poster

U.S. Army / Blast 'Em Out! vintage poster 1942 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) This poster is one of several wartime call-to-action campaigns issued by the U.S. Army encouraging civilians on the home front to donate scrap metal for the war effort during World War II. Although the subject depicts a heightened and stressful moment of combat, complete with the firing of a massive artillery cannon, the anonymous artist renders the scene with a subdued palette and elegance, softening the violence of war into an image of quiet resolve and patriotic purpose. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 192 - Harold von Schmidt, U.S. Army / Back 'Em Up with More Metal vintage poster

Harold von Schmidt U.S. Army / Back 'Em Up with More Metal vintage poster 1942 offset lithograph in colors 28.5 h x 40 w in (72 x 102 cm) Commissioned by the War Department, this striking poster functions like a frame from a dramatic graphic novel. Illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt, an artist and part time cowboy renowned for his action-packed Western scenes, the work utilizes moody, cinematic lighting and the stoic, grim expressions of soldiers positioned in the brush. Von Schmidt leverages his mastery of high-stakes Western narratives to emphasize the lurking danger of the battlefield, urging the American public to support the troops with industrial production. The composition is swimming in tension, capturing a quiet, gritty moment of suspense that defines the artist's style. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, TX. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 193 - Mead Schaeffer, U.S. Army / Your Metal Keeps 'Em Shooting vintage poster

Mead Schaeffer U.S. Army / Your Metal Keeps 'Em Shooting vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) In this powerful WWII appeal, Mead Schaeffer allows the machinery to command the narrative. A massive industrial tank dominates the entire composition, serving as both a literal and metaphorical force crushing the opposition. By centering the sheer scale of the vehicle, Schaeffer highlights the direct link between factory labor and frontline dominance. A master of composition, Schaeffer understood that the visual weight of the tank would resonate deeply with the American labor force. The poster was a key tool in the U.S. government's strategy to expand industrial production, transforming factory workers into the unstoppable engine behind the war machine. It remains a definitive example of how scale and strength were used to inspire national pride and industrial urgency. An example of this poster is held in the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 194 - Warren Baumgartner, U.S. Army / Keep It Coming! vintage poster

Warren Baumgartner U.S. Army / Keep It Coming! vintage poster 1943 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) Created at the height of WWII recruitment, this poster by German immigrant Warren Baumgartner masterfully romanticizes the heroism of the front lines. Baumgartner, a seasoned adventure illustrator for men's magazines, utilized a gritty, masculine style that transformed the dangers of combat into a pulpy, cinematic narrative. The U.S. Army commissioned Baumgartner to leverage this "adventure story" aesthetic, using bold symbolic language to attract young recruits. The result is a striking visual that exemplifies the era's idealization of war, blending the realism of his technique with the aspirational tone of mid-century recruitment art. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Hoover Institution, Library & Archives, Stanford, CA. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 195 - U.S. Army / Women : Four vintage posters

U.S. Army / Women : Four vintage posters 1943-44 largest: 30 h x 21.5 w in (76 x 55 cm) smallest: 14.125 h x 10 w in (36 x 25 cm) During World War II, U.S. Army poster campaigns, especially for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the Women's Army Corps), encouraged American women to enlist by portraying military service as patriotic duty, modern, and socially acceptable, helping address labor shortages while reshaping traditional gender roles on the home front. Lot is comprised of Something Money Can't Buy... Your Campaign Ribbons, ...Till Johnny Comes Marching Home, and two versions of We'll Both See It Through!. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (three examples) Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 196 - U.S. Army / World War II : Two vintage posters

U.S. Army / World War II : Two vintage posters c. 1943 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.375 w in (102 x 72 cm) Lot is comprised of "...Pass the Ammunition" / O.K. Soldier-That's Our Job! with design by Frederic Stanley published by U.S. Army Ordnance Department, and "Lumber Production is Falling Behind Our War Needs. To Save American Soldiers' Lives, We Must Provide the Lumber Our Armed Forces Need-Now!" -Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. An example of Frederic Stanley poster is held in the collection of the University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, TX. Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 197 - Herbert Morton Stoops, U.S. Army / Your Job Is to Keep 'Em Shooting! vintage poster

Herbert Morton Stoops U.S. Army / Your Job Is to Keep 'Em Shooting! vintage poster 1942 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.375 w in (102 x 72 cm) Published during the early years of World War II, this design by Stoops shows artillery crews operating a heavy field gun in the heat of battle under the urgent message "Your Job is to Keep 'em Shooting," linking the front lines to civilian production at home. Like many of Stoops' wartime commissions, the image reinforces the idea that industrial labor and scrap metal drives were essential to sustaining firepower overseas, turning everyday Americans into active contributors to the war effort. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 198 - U.S. Army / Personal Safety : Three vintage posters

U.S. Army / Personal Safety : Three vintage posters 1942-43 offset lithograph in colors 40 h x 28.5 w in (102 x 72 cm) During World War II, the U.S. Army produced a wide range of personal safety and accident-prevention posters aimed at soldiers and civilian defense workers, warning against careless behavior both on and off duty. Combining direct slogans, dramatic imagery, and dark humor, these posters emphasized that preventable injuries, reckless driving, unsafe equipment handling, and momentary lapses in attention could hinder military efficiency just as seriously as enemy action. Lot is comprised of I Need You on the Job Full Time... / Don't Get Hurt by Harry Morse Meyers, America is the Loser Too - When Avoidable Accidents Stop Production / The U.S. Army Says "Make Haste Safely" by Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer, Don't Get Hurt / It May Cost His Life by Victor Keppler. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (all) Provenance: Collection of Henry Clay Miner | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 199 - Frederic Henri Kay Henrion, United / Allied Hands Breaking Swastika vintage poster

Frederic Henri Kay Henrion United / Allied Hands Breaking Swastika vintage poster 1944 offset lithograph in colors 20 h x 26.25 w in (51 x 67 cm) Although no official title exists for this design, the message is clear: the Allies have destroyed Hitler. Each flagged arm-representing the United States, Britain, France, and Russia-tears apart a swastika against a stormy and otherworldly background. Born in Germany, Henrion went to Paris, where he studied poster design with Paul Colin. Being Jewish, he fled to the United Kingdom following the Nazis' rise to power. He was interned on the Isle of Man as an alien, but gradually wooed both the Ministry of Information and the U.S. Office of War Information with his graphic capabilities. Along with his propaganda work, he created a number of corporate identities for brands like KLM, and also designed exhibitions around the world. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museums, London. U.S.P.F. II Provenance: Estate of Seymour Stein Literature: Guerres, p. 34, no. 13 (var); War Posters, p. 41; PAI-LXXXVII, 113 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 200 - Would YOU Let Him Down? / Don't Talk Army / General Ralph Royce vintage poster

Would YOU Let Him Down? / Don't Talk Army / General Ralph Royce vintage poster c. 1942 18.875 h x 11.5 w in (48 x 29 cm) Produced during the height of U.S. involvement in World War II, this poster highlights the secrecy and strategic importance of air operations led by General Ralph Royce, including long-range missions from Australia toward Japanese-occupied territories in the Philippines. Urging civilians to "Remember Royce Before You Speak" and "Don't Talk Army," it reflects wartime security campaigns that emphasized silence on military movements, warning that careless talk could jeopardize operations against the Axis powers. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 201 - Tomi Ungerer, Choice Not Chance vintage anti-war poster

Tomi Ungerer Choice Not Chance vintage anti-war poster 1967 26.75 h x 21 w in (68 x 53 cm) In this eerie design, a U.S. pilot is painting the images of howling Vietnamese babies on the nose of his plane, indicating the number that he has proudly killed. This poster design was included in the 2015 exhibition Tomi Ungerer : All In One at The Drawing Center, New York City. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Literature: Ungerer Exhibitions, 188; Ungerer Posters, 26; Ungerer/All in One, 42; PAI-XCIII, 90 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 202 - Jean Carlu, UN / The Rampart of Peace : Maquette and sketch (two works)

Jean Carlu UN / The Rampart of Peace : Maquette and sketch (two works) 1951 mixed media on paper sight: 29.25 h x 19.25 w in (74 x 49 cm) 9 h x 9 w in (23 x 23 cm) The present lot provides a rare opportunity to own two original artworks by Jean Carlu, with each work depicting the iconic United Nations Headquarters building in New York. This image was never produced as a poster in the 1950s but was later adopted as a UN stamp in 2016 to commemorate its 65th anniversary. Carlu was a French graphic designer and poster artist best known for his bold, modernist advertising work in the interwar period and for his influential wartime propaganda posters, particularly during World War II, where his streamlined, typographic style helped define 20th century visual communication in both Europe and the United States. Signed to lower right of larger work 'Jean Carlu'. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 203 - Danny Lyon, SNCC / Is He Protecting You? vintage poster

Danny Lyon SNCC / Is He Protecting You? vintage poster c. 1963 14 h x 22 w in (36 x 56 cm) Captured by notable American photographer Danny Lyon in the early 1960s for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this poster distills a charged moment of the civil rights movement into a stark visual challenge. Using one of Lyon's documentary photographs of a Mississippi highway patrolman, the work pairs the image with a confrontational question that forces viewers to reconsider the role of law enforcement in maintaining segregation and suppressing Black activism. Produced as part of SNCC's grassroots organizing and fundraising efforts, the poster exemplifies how photography was repurposed as a direct, persuasive tool for social and political critique during this period. Lincoln Lithograph Company, Los Angeles Literature: Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century, Young, fig. 30 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 204 - Two anti-war vintage posters

Two anti-war vintage posters c. 1970 19.125 h x 23.25 w in (49 x 59 cm) 24.875 h x 19.5 w in (63 x 50 cm) The All-New Colorpack II / "We've Made Shooting Easy!" reworks a contemporary Polaroid camera advertisement from 1969 by invoking the infamous photograph of a South Vietnamese officer executing a Viet Cong prisoner, using its commercial framing to underscore the stark and disturbing reality of the image. The second work in the lot, Feeling the Tax Pinch / Stop the War, utilizes an image of a crab with its claws showing front and center to amplify the message. Lot is comprised of Feeling the Tax Pinch / Stop the War and The All-New Colorpack II / "We've Made Shooting Easy!". This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 205 - Columbia Collective, Can't You Hear Me? / We Are Striking, the Killing Must Stop! : Two vintage posters

Columbia Collective Can't You Hear Me? / We Are Striking, the Killing Must Stop! : Two vintage posters 1970 screenprint 27.5 h x 22 w in (70 x 56 cm) 27 h x 22.75 w in (69 x 58 cm) Created in 1970 by the "Columbia Collective," a group of student artists from Columbia College Chicago, this stark antiwar protest poster design reflects the outrage and anguish that followed the Kent State shootings and continued American military involvement in Cambodia and Vietnam. The desperate figures evoke wounded demonstrators and civilian casualties alike, transforming the design into an urgent visual plea for an end to violence and political repression. Select works from this series were later exhibited by Poster Plus as part of its August 1970 Student Strike Posters exhibition in Chicago, which juxtaposed American antiwar student prints with revolutionary posters produced during the May 1968 uprisings in Paris while helping raise funds for young activist artists to continue producing protest works. This lot is comprised of two versions of the same design, one in black and one in red. Provenance: Poster Plus, Chicago | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 206 - Columbia Collective, Three vintage posters

Columbia Collective Three vintage posters 1970 screenprint 17.625 h x 11.5 w in (45 x 29 cm) 24 h x 14.75 w in (61 x 37 cm) 8.25 h x 20.625 w in (21 x 52 cm) Created in 1970 by the "Columbia Collective," a group of student artists from Columbia College Chicago, these antiwar protest poster designs reflect the outrage and anguish that followed the Kent State shootings and continued American military involvement in Cambodia and Vietnam. Select works from this series were later exhibited by Poster Plus as part of its August 1970 Student Strike Posters exhibition in Chicago, which juxtaposed American antiwar student prints with revolutionary posters produced during the May 1968 uprisings in Paris while helping raise funds for young activist artists to continue producing protest works. Provenance: Poster Plus, Chicago | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 207 - Columbia Collective, Three vintage posters

Columbia Collective Three vintage posters 1970 screenprint each: 18 h x 12 w in (46 x 30 cm) Created in 1970 by the "Columbia Collective," a group of student artists from Columbia College Chicago, this series of protest posters emerged in response to the Kent State shootings and the widening U.S. military involvement in Cambodia and Vietnam, using stark, emotionally charged imagery to confront the human cost of war and state violence. One poster depicts a screaming face beneath the plea "Don't Shoot," while another pairs haunting phrase "And When It's Your Child?" with the image of a grieving woman holding a dead infant. The third design reworks the iconic figure of Uncle Sam with the defiant slogan "Strike till Sam Hollers Uncle," transforming a familiar national symbol into urgent calls for resistance against militarism and political authority. Select works from this series were later exhibited by Poster Plus in its August 1970 Student Strike Posters exhibition, which highlighted international and American student protest art while supporting the continued production of activist printmaking. Lot is comprised of And When It's Your Child?, Don't Shoot, and Strike till Sam Hollers Uncle. Provenance: Poster Plus, Chicago | Private Collection This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 208 - Muhammad Ali, Let My People Go

Muhammad Ali Let My People Go 1979 offset lithograph in colors 11 h x 8.5 w in (28 x 22 cm) Let My People Go emerged from Muhammad Ali's growing involvement in international human rights advocacy and was produced in collaboration with the United Nations and the World Federation of United Nations Associations. Centered on the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and Namibia, the work paired Ali's poetic slogan "I'm fighting for freedom for South Africa, so let my people go" with imagery of a chained African figure, aligning his global celebrity with anti-apartheid campaigns supported by the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid during the late Cold War-era. Numbered to lower left '672/1000' with United Nations blindstamp. This work is number 672 from the edition of 1000 published by the World Federation of United Nations Associations, New York and Geneva. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 209 - Afro-American History Rally (Chicago) / Angela Davis vintage poster

Afro-American History Rally (Chicago) / Angela Davis vintage poster 1975 screenprint on board 22 h x 18 w in (56 x 46 cm) This poster announces an "Afro-American History Rally" held on February 20 at Chicago's Dunbar Vocational High School during the rise of the Black Power and civil rights movements, when Black history celebrations became closely tied to calls for political activism, labor rights, and racial justice. Featuring activist and scholar Angela Davis alongside Ishmael Flory, then chairman of the Illinois Communist Party, the event blended radical political discourse with community cultural programming, including performances by the George Freeman Trio and vocalist Anita Satisfield. An example of this graphic is held in the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Culver City, CA. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 210 - No Aid to the Contras in Nicaragua / Brought to You by Reagan's "Freedom Fighters" vintage poster

No Aid to the Contras in Nicaragua / Brought to You by Reagan's "Freedom Fighters" vintage poster 1984 17 h x 11 w in (43 x 28 cm) Produced in the mid-1980s by the San Francisco-based activist organization USOCA (U.S. Out of Central America), this poster denounces the Reagan administration's "Reagan Doctrine" and U.S. backing of the Nicaraguan Contras during the Central American conflicts, a period marked by escalating revelations of covert operations and human rights abuses. It features a shocking and heartbreaking photograph from the 1984 exhibit Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Brussels, showing children and their mother murdered by the Contras and abandoned in a ditch. Emerging amid the 1984 legislative struggle over the Boland Amendment and growing public backlash over CIA involvement in Nicaragua, this work reflects grassroots opposition to U.S. interventionism and covert warfare in Central America. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 211 - Gert Wiescher, Viva Che (Che Guevara) ; Vladimir Lenin: Two vintage posters

Gert Wiescher Viva Che (Che Guevara) ; Vladimir Lenin: Two vintage posters c. 1968 33.75 h x 23.5 w in (86 x 60 cm) 23.5 h x 33.375 w in (60 x 85 cm) These 1968 adaptations by Gert Wiescher trade psychedelic swirls for a stark, revolutionary aesthetic. By casting the era's most potent political icons in a high-contrast black and orange palette, Wiescher transformed portraits of Che Guevara and Lenin into enduring symbols of global rebellion and anti-war sentiment. Bold and confrontational, these posters remain essential artifacts of the 20th century's most volatile cultural turning point. Visual Object Productions, Berlin This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 212 - Libertad para (Freedom for) Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala vintage poster

Libertad para (Freedom for) Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala vintage poster c. 1981-84 inkjet print 16.75 h x 11.25 w in (43 x 29 cm) Created during the upheaval of the early 1980s, this solidarity poster expresses hope for peace and self-determination in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala at a time when Central America was deeply affected by civil wars, military violence, U.S. Cold War intervention, and widespread human-rights abuses. With its warm palette of red, yellow, and green and its image of a smiling Indigenous woman surrounded by palm leaves, the poster envisions a future shaped by education, health care, land reform, cultural renewal, and freedom from repression and foreign control. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 213 - Encuentro Continental Sobre Reforma Agraria y Movimientos Campesinos vintage poster

Encuentro Continental Sobre Reforma Agraria y Movimientos Campesinos vintage poster 1981 21.75 h x 16.375 w in (55 x 42 cm) This poster announces the 1981 "Continental Meeting on Agrarian Reform and Peasant Movements" in Managua, Nicaragua, convened in the wake of the Sandinista Revolution as debates over land redistribution, rural labor rights, and U.S. influence intensified across Central and South America during the Cold War. Organized with participation from the ATC (Rural Workers Association), UNAG (National Union of Farmers and Ranchers), and CIERA (Center for Research and Studies on Agrarian Reform), the gathering reflected broader regional efforts to challenge entrenched land inequality and strengthen peasant-led political movements throughout Latin America. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 214 - No Business As Usual '86 / Prevent World War III - No Matter What It Takes! vintage poster

No Business As Usual '86 / Prevent World War III - No Matter What It Takes! vintage poster 1986 22.75 h x 17.5 w in (58 x 44 cm) Published in 1986 by the San Francisco-based activist collective No Business As Usual, this poster emerged at the height of renewed anti-nuclear protests following escalating Cold War tensions and the global shock of the Chernobyl disaster. Its graphic progression of cheerful smiley faces transforming into ominous nuclear mushroom clouds captures the era's anxiety that everyday complacency and consumer culture masked the ever-present threat of nuclear catastrophe and mutually assured destruction. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 215 - Apartheid / South African and U.S. Workers Say: Shut It Down! (vintage newsprint poster from People's Daily World)

Apartheid / South African and U.S. Workers Say: Shut It Down! (vintage newsprint poster from People's Daily World) 1986 22.75 h x 17 w in (58 x 43 cm) Printed in the June 12, 1986 issue of the Communist newspaper People's Daily World, this anti-apartheid poster emerged during a period of mounting global outrage against South Africa's racist segregation regime, as labor unions, universities, and activists intensified demands for international sanctions and corporate divestment. Depicting workers' hands joining chains beneath prison watchtowers and barbed wire, the design calls on U.S. laborers to stand in solidarity with Black South African workers by using boycotts, protests, and economic pressure to help "shut down" apartheid through collective action and international unity. The artwork was created by an unknown artist "S. Joseph". An example of this newsprint poster is held in the collection of the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 216 - Bump Reagan; Reagan's Gotta Go! (two vintage newsprint posters from The Daily World)

Bump Reagan; Reagan's Gotta Go! (two vintage newsprint posters from The Daily World) 1984 each: 22.75 h x 14.5 w in (58 x 37 cm) Published during the heated 1984 U.S. presidential election, these anti-Ronald Reagan campaign advertisements in The Daily World reflect the broader political climate of Cold War-era economic anxiety, labor tensions, and ideological division in the United States. Issued by a left-leaning press outlet historically associated with labor and progressive movements, the ads critique Reagan-era policies, particularly deregulation and cuts to social programs, positioning them as harmful to working-class Americans amid a sharply polarized national debate. One example features auto workers as representatives of the working class, demanding improved rights and conditions, while the other example announces the "Dump Reagan Rallies" scheduled in major metropolitan cities across the U.S. Long View Pub. Co., New York This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 217 - El Salvador / Un Pueblo que Dijo Basta! vintage poster

El Salvador / Un Pueblo que Dijo Basta! vintage poster c. 1980-84 23.375 h x 17.875 w in (59 x 45 cm) Produced in the early 1980s by the El Salvador Solidarity Committee of Chicago, this poster expresses solidarity with the people of El Salvador during the civil war, when human rights abuses and U.S. military support for the ruling junta drew growing international protest in the context of Cold War politics. The image of a determined Salvadoran man breaking through barbed wire alongside the slogan "Un Pueblo que Dijo Basta!" ("A people who said enough is enough!") conveys a forceful call for resistance, dignity, and an end to repression. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 218 - Niko (Antonio Perez Gonzalez), Fidel Seguro a Los Yankis Dale Duro vintage poster

Niko (Antonio Perez Gonzalez) Fidel Seguro a Los Yankis Dale Duro vintage poster 1980 29.75 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) This charged political poster reflects the anti-imperialist rhetoric that defined much of revolutionary Cuban graphic design during the Cold War, when tensions between Cuba and the United States remained deeply entrenched following the Cuban Revolution and decades of American sanctions and political hostility. Depicting a bandaged Statue of Liberty clutching a Cuban flag beneath the slogan "Fidel Seguro a los Yankis Dale Duro" ("Fidel is safe, hit the Yankees hard"), the work combines biting political satire with the bold visual language associated with revolutionary organizations such as OSPAAAL and ICAIC. Niko once said, "the poster must be, above all, a communicator of the personal passion of the creative artist. The poster anticipates and perpetuates the images of its time, makes and participates in history." (Cartel Mexico). This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 219 - Jose Balmes, No a la Sedicion vintage poster

Jose Balmes No a la Sedicion vintage poster c. 1971 27.625 h x 19.375 w in (70 x 49 cm) Created around 1971 during the turbulent presidency of Salvador Allende, this poster No a la sedicion ("No to Sedition") reflects the intense Cold War-era political polarization in Chile, where Allende's socialist reforms faced escalating opposition, internal destabilization efforts, and mounting pressures that would ultimately culminate in the 1973 coup. Designed by Chilean painter and printmaker Jose Balmes, the work embodies his commitment to politically engaged art, using stark visual language to defend democratic governance and resist attempts to undermine the elected Popular Unity government. A screenprint of the same design is held in the collection of the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin. Druckgrafisches Atelier, Germany This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 220 - David Hawk and Roger Black, Cambodia Witness: Murder by Government 1975-1979 vintage exhibition poster

David Hawk and Roger Black Cambodia Witness: Murder by Government 1975-1979 vintage exhibition poster 1983 28 h x 11.875 w in (71 x 30 cm) This exhibition poster for Cambodia Witness: Murder by Government 1975-1979 publicized a Chicago presentation at the Richard J. Daley Center organized by Amnesty International U.S.A in the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide, when the Khmer Rouge regime was becoming internationally recognized for the deaths of an estimated one to two million people through executions, forced labor, starvation, and displacement. The exhibition featured human rights investigator David Hawk, whose documentation helped expose atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge, while the poster itself was designed by acclaimed graphic designer Roger Black, known for his influential editorial and publication design work of the late 20th century. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 221 - Vietnamese, Two vintage posters

Vietnamese Two vintage posters 1966, c. 1970 30.75 h x 21 w in (78 x 53 cm) 17.25 h x 24.625 w in (44 x 63 cm) Created during the Vietnam War era by Vietnamese artist Long Chau, the first of these two revolutionary posters harnesses the timeless power of allegorical imagery-a soaring crane triumphing over a bat branded with the faces of "Chinese Reactionaries" and "Imperialism"-bridging classical East Asian symbolism with the bold visual language of communist political art to frame moral righteousness not merely as a virtue, but as a force historically destined to outlast oppression and foreign interference. The second, rendered in the fierce red and gold of the Vietnamese national flag, immortalizes the iron resolve of North Vietnam's army and people during the hard-fought Dry Season campaigns of 1965-1966, placing a young female soldier at its center with her rifle raised, embodying a nation that armed its daughters as readily as its sons and fusing Soviet-inspired socialist realism with a distinctly Vietnamese spirit. Lot is comprised of Benevolence Defeats Cruelty (c. 1970) by Long Chau and Vietnam Democratic City / The Dry Season Victory of the Army and People of Southern Vietnam 1965-1966 (1966). Tien Bo Printing Factory, Hanoi (one example) This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 222 - Cuba-Chile '74: A Benefit for Chilean Refugees (Chicago) vintage poster

Cuba-Chile '74: A Benefit for Chilean Refugees (Chicago) vintage poster 1974 22.375 h x 17 w in (57 x 43 cm) Cuba-Chile '74: A Benefit for Chilean Refugees was held July 27-28, 1974 at the Midland Hotel in Chicago in response to the wave of displacement following the 1973 military coup in Chile, which brought widespread political repression under the Pinochet regime. The event reflected broader Chicago-based solidarity efforts in the 1970s, as artists, activists, and labor organizations coordinated cultural fundraisers to support Chilean refugees and draw attention to human rights abuses affecting exile communities. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Glad Day Press, Ithaca, NY This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 223 - Inalienable Rights / Alienable Wrongs (Chicago) vintage poster

Inalienable Rights / Alienable Wrongs (Chicago) vintage poster 1989 17.5 h x 14.375 w in (44 x 37 cm) Produced in 1989 amid escalating national debates over censorship and public funding for the arts, the poster promoted a citywide series organized by the Committee for Artists' Rights celebrating freedom of expression through exhibitions, performances, lectures, screenings, and poetry readings across Chicago. Framed as a "two-month dialogue by artists and art supporters," the project reflected the broader cultural conflicts of the late 1980s surrounding the First Amendment, artistic censorship, and controversies involving publicly funded contemporary art in the United States. Sponsoring and participating organizations include Chicago Artists' Coalition, New Art Examiner, A.R.C. Gallery, Artemisia Gallery, Body Politic Theater, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago Post Road Gallery, Contemporary Art Workshop, Guild Books Complex, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University - North River Community Gallery, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Outtakes Bar and Restaurant, Prairie Avenue Gallery, Randolph Street Gallery, Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute Gallery II, and Theatre Building. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 224 - Festival of Life (Chicago) / Bill Clinton vintage poster

Festival of Life (Chicago) / Bill Clinton vintage poster 1997 screenprint in colors 23 h x 15.75 w in (58 x 40 cm) Organized as a counter-protest during the 1997 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the "Festival of Life" at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park offered a parallel gathering that challenged mainstream political messaging, using music, speeches, and daily programming to create an alternative civic space. Featuring the slogan "Crash the Party!," the poster's image of President Bill Clinton underscores the event's critical stance toward establishment politics while highlighting the era's broader culture of protest and public political performance. Crosshair, USA This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 225 - Giancarlo Impiglia, June 12 March & Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, New York vintage poster

Giancarlo Impiglia June 12 March & Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, New York vintage poster 1982 offset lithograph in colors 25.375 h x 18.375 w in (64 x 47 cm) Designed by Italian-born artist Giancarlo Impiglia, whose work became known in the 1980s for its sleek geometric forms, Art Deco influences, and vibrant depictions of modern urban life, this poster was created for the massive June 12, 1982 anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City, where more than one million protesters gathered alongside the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament to call for nuclear disarmament at the height of Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Combining bold primary colors with stylized figures, the design reflects the era's growing peace movement and its demands to redirect military spending toward social needs, poverty relief, and global human welfare rather than nuclear escalation. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 226 - Jimini Productions, The President / Richard Nixon 1972 Re-election Campaign vintage poster

Jimini Productions The President / Richard Nixon 1972 Re-election Campaign vintage poster 1972 offset lithograph in colors 34.75 h x 22 w in (88 x 56 cm) Produced for the 1972 re-election effort of President Richard Nixon by the Committee to Re-elect the President, this poster assembles official and informal photographs of Nixon interacting with supporters and officials within a patriotic, folksy frame crowned by an eagle, projecting accessibility alongside authority during a highly coordinated campaign. Issued amid a landslide election year marked by strong economic messaging and the winding down of the Vietnam War, it reflects the broader visual strategy of the 1972 campaign, which relied heavily on carefully curated media imagery to reinforce Nixon's public persona and political messaging. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 227 - Ben Shahn, McCarthy / Peace vintage campaign poster

Ben Shahn McCarthy / Peace vintage campaign poster 1968 sight: 37.25 h x 25 w in (95 x 63 cm) When Eugene McCarthy ran for President in 1968 against Lyndon B. Johnson, his candidacy was based upon his opposition to the war in Vietnam. As a prominent pacifist, Shahn was the perfect artist to create a campaign poster for McCarthy, the patriotically-colored dove promoting peace at last. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Lincoln Graphic Arts, Inc. Literature: Images of an Era, 67; Livre de l'Affiche, 78; PAI-LVIII, 582 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 228 - McGovern 1972 Presidential Campaign: Four vintage posters

McGovern 1972 Presidential Campaign: Four vintage posters 1972 screenprint in colors; offset lithograph in colors largest: 30 h x 22 w in (76 x 56 cm) smallest: 28.625 h x 20.875 w in (73 x 53 cm) The 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern relied heavily on a younger generation of designers, illustrators, and politically engaged creatives who were active in the broader 1960s-70s countercultural and anti-war movements. As a result, it produced a distinctive visual identity across posters and print ads that emphasized peace, reform, and anti-Vietnam War sentiment, often using bold typography and minimalist design to appeal to younger and activist voters. In the context of a deeply polarized election during the final years of the Vietnam War and widespread domestic unrest in the United States, these campaign materials sought to position McGovern as a progressive alternative to incumbent leadership while mobilizing grassroots political engagement. Lot is comprised of Watergate / Defend the First Amendment / Vote McGovern, McGovern / McGovern-Shriver '72, So you're going to vote for the first time. It may be a confusing world, but it's not a confusing choice vote for George McGovern, and McGovern - President '72 featuring photograph by Stanley Tretick. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 229 - Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale / Vote Democratic vintage poster

Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale / Vote Democratic vintage poster 1976 offset lithograph in colors 21 h x 13 w in (53 x 33 cm) This 1976 presidential campaign poster features a black-and-white portrait of Democratic candidates Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, whose election followed the political turmoil and public distrust that emerged in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon. Presenting themselves as honest, reform-minded outsiders, the Carter-Mondale ticket campaigned on restoring integrity and confidence in American government, ultimately defeating incumbent President Gerald Ford in one of the most closely watched elections of the postwar era. An example of this poster is held in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Allied Printing, Birmingham This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 230 - Trấn Thanh Sử, Ma Tuy AIDS / Public Health vintage poster

Trấn Thanh Sử Ma Tuy AIDS / Public Health vintage poster 1999 30.75 h x 21 w in (78 x 53 cm) This poster was produced in Vietnam in 1999 for the Ministry of Culture and Information's Population Committee for AIDS and Social Issues. This stark public-health poster uses the image of a pierced skull smoking a cigarette to deliver a graphic warning about the deadly consequences of drug use and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Emerging during a period of intensified AIDS-awareness campaigns across Southeast Asia, the design reflects the era's confrontational visual strategies aimed at discouraging narcotics use and promoting social vigilance through shock imagery. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 231 - Join the Great American Smokeout / American Cancer Society vintage poster

Join the Great American Smokeout / American Cancer Society vintage poster 1979-81 17 h x 11 w in (43 x 28 cm) Created by the American Cancer Society, this poster reflects the growing national anti-smoking movement that gained momentum in the late 1970s, as public health campaigns increasingly urged Americans to quit after decades of mounting scientific evidence linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer and heart disease. Featuring a bold white star set within red and blue geometric forms, the design captures the era's direct and civic-minded visual language, appearing just over a decade after the landmark 1964 U.S. Surgeon General's report that firmly established smoking as a major cancer-causing health hazard in the public consciousness. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Lot: 232 - Forkscrew Graphics, iRaq / Anti-Iraq War : Four original posters

Forkscrew Graphics iRaq / Anti-Iraq War : Four original posters 2004 screenprint in colors each: 34 h x 23.25 w in (86 x 59 cm) This set of four poignant posters was created by Forkscrew Graphics, an anonymous Los Angeles-based collective. Reflecting on the project, member Bruce Gilbert remarked, "We simply used the language and iconography of an incredibly visible campaign (Apple's iPod) to help stimulate dialogue surrounding an important and complicated issue: What is the U.S. doing in Iraq, and what does it mean to us and the rest of the world? We were sold a war that promised to secure freedom to us and to others by delivering democracy to the people of Iraq, and it's become increasingly clear that it's done neither. Ultimately the desired effect of the project is to shift the focus from products to people, from consumers to concerned citizens. We want to show that no matter how manipulated the mediasphere becomes, and no matter how many tons of messages the marketing world dumps on the public, there are ways to take the symbols and tools of marketing and use them to disrupt the barrage of commercial communications.". Examples of these posters are held in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Set is comprised of four distinct posters depicting the infamous image of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse victim known as "The Hooded Man," alongside figures carrying a rifle, wielding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and throwing a grenade. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.