David and Lucinda Pollack collection

Identifier: irn530451
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 by David and Lucinda Pollack.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of American, French, Hungarian, and German propaganda, war bonds, recruitment, and election posters produced during World War II.

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 62

Poster of a giant snowball rolling toward the Axis leaders
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539634
- English
- overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster of a worker flexing his bicep
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539641
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US Buy War Bonds poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539643
- English
- overall: Height: 22.000 inches (55.88 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US 5th war loan poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539645
- English
- overall: Height: 24.500 inches (62.23 cm) | Width: 18.500 inches (46.99 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster for the 5th War Loan campaign with a broom sweeping Nazi emblems. The campaign for the 5th War Loan subscription took place from June 12 - July 8, 1944. There were 8 war loan drives from 1942 to 1945. By the end of the war, 85 million Americans had purchased 185.7 billion dollars of bonds.
US poster depicting the Statue of Liberty and flags of the Allied Nations
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539647
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US and Allied Nations propaganda poster with an image of the Statue of Liberty and Allied flags. It was issued by the Office of War Information as a symbol of the unity of the Allied forces against their common enemies, the Axis powers. On January 1, 1942, the US, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and China signed the United Nations Declaration, joined the next day by 22 other nations. The signatory governments pledged to exert the maximum war effort and not to make a separate peace. The United Nations was founded 3 years later. The need to manage the war on the Home Front led to the establishme...
Poster of a Nazi officer with a monocle reflecting a man hanging on a gallows
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539648
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 36.500 inches (92.71 cm) | Width: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster of a crowd of people heading to work
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539649
- English
- overall: Height: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) | Width: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Security of War Information Campaign poster of Uncle Sam with his finger to his lips asking for silence
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539650
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Security of War Information Campaign poster featuring the Uncle Sam icon with his finger to his mouth in a hushing gesture. This modification of the Uncle Sam image, created by Montgomery Flagg for World War I recruitment posters, was designed by Leon Helguera, a Mexican artist who immigrated to America in 1916. The Security of War Information Campaign, also known as the “hush-hush campaign,” was a cooperative project by the Army, Navy, and FBI. The project was undertaken by the Office of War Information (OWI) with the oversight of a Security Committee, which included representatives from t...
US buy war bonds poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539651
- English
- overall: Height: 44.000 inches (111.76 cm) | Width: 34.000 inches (86.36 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US propaganda poster about the Nazi threat
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539652
- English
- overall: Height: 50.000 inches (127 cm) | Width: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster of the Talmud on a backdrop of flames
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn554115
- English
- overall: Height: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Nazi racial science poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn554117
- English
- overall: Height: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Prussia will speak Prussian Adolf Hitler Nazi Party election poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn554118
- English
- a: Height: 23.875 inches (60.643 cm) | Width: 33.875 inches (86.043 cm) b: Height: 23.875 inches (60.643 cm) | Width: 33.875 inches (86.043 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
"I now ask the German people ..." Nazi propaganda poster featuring Hitler
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn554119
- English
- overall: Height: 48.125 inches (122.238 cm) | Width: 33.875 inches (86.043 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Only Hitler Only Hitler poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn554120
- English
- overall: Height: 32.250 inches (81.915 cm) | Width: 23.875 inches (60.643 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
US war propaganda poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn559582
- English
- overall: Height: 43.750 inches (111.125 cm) | Width: 32.750 inches (83.185 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Americanos Todos, Luchamos por la Victoria Bilingual poster encouraging wartime unity of Mexico and America and all American citizens regardless of nationality
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn559584
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) | Width: 20.125 inches (51.118 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
“Americans All” bilingual poster featuring two hats, one symbolizing Mexico and the other symbolizing America, raised up in unison. The poster was designed to promote unity between America’s multi-ethnic demographics and the nations of the Western Hemisphere during wartime. The poster was designed by Leon Helguera, a Mexican artist who immigrated to America in 1916, and was commissioned by the Office of Wartime Information (OWI). The OWI was established in 1942, and managed information about the war on the home front. This office controlled the design and distribution of war information to ...
US careless talk kills sailors poster Avoid Careless Talk
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn559585
- English
- overall: Height: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster depicting a man with a cigarette with his hand to his ear; behind him are phrases he is listening to, including, "Do you know...", "I know that...", "Someone told me...", and "I hear that..." Under the man's face is an illustration of a news clipping with the headline, "U-Boat Captain Kills 22 Sailors."
US careless talk poster on Pacific troop locations
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn559586
- English
- 1945
- overall: Height: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Width: 17.375 inches (44.133 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Rectangular poster with black lettering on a red background urging readers not to discuss the location or movements of men, ships and materials within, to or from Asiatic-Pacific areas.
US careless talk poster warning of spies
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn559587
- English
- overall: Height: 27.875 inches (70.803 cm) | Width: 22.000 inches (55.88 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago