picture-posters

Updated: May 22, 2025

The American government, going to war, had been forced to assert itself, and the stores and billboards were covered with proclamations and picture-posters, and the newspapers were full of recitals of the crimes which Germany had committed against humanity.

Upton Sinclair - Jimmie Higgins

Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner. They were molded in an old system, and could not change their cliche. The New Army was called into being by Lord Kitchener and his advisers, who adopted modern advertising methods to stir the sluggish imagination of the masses, so that every wall in London and great cities, every fence in rural places, was placarded with picture-posters.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told