Propaganda War Posters

When Beans Were Bullets: War-Era Food Posters is a great exhibition held at the National Agricultural Library. This collection shows how the government was able to enlist even the farmers to the war cause during World Wars I and II. Curator Cory Bernat opens a window to our past of how government propaganda used the poster as tool over yet still young media forms finding their legs.

“I had the conviction that the poster must play a great part in the fight for public opinion. The printed word might not be read, people might not choose to attend meetings or to watch motion pictures, but the billboard was something that caught even the most indifferent eye.”

— George Creel, Chairman of the Committee for Public Information, in his World War I memoir, How We Advertised America.