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1940 Poster Stock Photos

Browse 2,562 1940 poster photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

young man reading us marines recruitment post. (photo by h. armstrong roberts/retrofile/getty images) - 1940 poster stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Young man reading US Marines recruitment post. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Poster, Recruitment, World War II

British World War Two propaganda poster featuring a photograph of RAF personnel and a quote from British prime minister Winston Churchill's 20th...

Never Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few

World War II, Poster, Battle of Britain

Man Looking at U.S. Army Recruitment Sign, Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA, John Vachon for Farm Security Administration July 1940.

Man Looking at U.S. Army Recruitment Sign, Benton Harbor, Michigan, July 1940

Recruitment, Military Recruitment, USA

Poster for the rescheduled 1940 Summer Olympics, with illustrations of a figure skater, a sprinter, a ski jumper, a hurdler, and a javelin thrower...

1940 Summer Olympics - Poster

Poster for the dark romance 'Rebecca', directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring English actor Laurence Olivier as Max de Winter, Joan Fontaine as...

Pinocchio, poster, center: ; clockwise from lower left: Jiminy Cricket, The Blue Fairy, Geppetto, Stromboli, Gideon, Lampwick, The Coachman, Honest...

Pinocchio, Film Poster

World War II color poster depicting 'Rosie the Riveter' encourages American women to show their strength and go to work for the war effort by J....

"We Can Do It!" Rosie the Riveter Poster

Poster, World War II, Women

Illustration depicting soldiers from the Allied countries of World War II, facing a central 'V' shape formed by the flags of their different...

Freedom Shall Prevail!

World War II, Poster, Propaganda

London bus that has been fitted with adhesive netting over its windows to prevent the glass from shattering, during wartime.

Exhibition of 1940s government public information wartime propaganda posters, Wiltshire, England, UK.

Exhibition of 1940s government public information wartime propaganda posters, Wiltshire, England, UK

Exhibition of 1940s government public information wartime propaganda posters, Wiltshire, England, UK.

Exhibition of 1940s government public information wartime propaganda posters, Wiltshire, England, UK

Pinocchio, poster, top from left: Blue Fairy, Coachman, , Gideon, Cleo, Geppetto, Lampwick, Stromboli, Honest John, bottom from left: Figaro, Jiminy...

Pinocchio, Disney

Poster entitled 'When You Ride Alone You Ride With Hitler!' depicts a well-dressed man as he drives an open-top car with the spectral form of Nazi...

'When You Ride Alone You Ride With Hitler!'

Poster, World War II, Nazism

Long Live the Victorious Nation! Long Live Our Dear Stalin. Russian propaganda poster 1940.

Russian Propaganda Poster.

Joseph Stalin, Poster, Propaganda

Poster produced for Great Western Railway to promote train services to London. Although the style of the artwork would suggest a date in the 1940s,...

�London�, GWR poster, 1940s.

Poster, Rail Transportation, UK

Armed service recruiting poster features four women in different unforms (from left, Marines, WAVES, Army , and Coast Guard accompanied by the phrase...

'For Your Country's Sake Today--For Your Own Sake Tomorrow'

Women, USA, World War II

Era War Bonds poster, 1940s.

'To Have And To Hold'

World War II, Poster

Leon Trotsky (Russian: ___ __________ ________; born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician,...

Russia: Leon Trotsky, founder and first leader of the Red Army, defends Russia against European intervention. Revolutionary poster, Russian Civil War, c. 1918

Propaganda, Russia, Poster

Second world war propaganda poster by the America First Committee titled 'War's First Casualty'. Dated 1940.

War's First Casualty.

Poster for the Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda film 'Jud Suss', starring Austrian actor Ferdinand Marian as the titular character, 1940.

Nazism, Anti Semitism, Propaganda

Vintage illustration of a poster promoting ‘Egyptian State Railways’ with a locomotive, railroad tracks, a Pharaoh statue, and ‘Egypt Calls You’,...

Poster for Egyptian Railways

Vintage illustration of a hand clasp superimposed over a factory promoting WWII savings bonds and stamps ‘Buy a Share in America, United States...

World War II Poster, Buy a Share in America

Vintage illustration of Poster of Japanese Tank, Japanese flag, Nisshoki, Hinomaru, Circle of the Sun, 1940s.

Poster of Japanese Tank

World War II, Poster

Degenerate music , 1938. Found in the Collection of the Private Collection. Creator: Tersch; Ludwig .

Degenerate Music (Entartete Musik)

Waffen SS. Nazi propaganda recruitment poster 'Join at 17 or older' 1941.

Waffen SS. Nazi propaganda.

SS - Nazi Party, Poster, Nazism

Italian World War II poster. 'Here are the liberators'. Shows the Statue of Liberty as an angel of death, with Italian cities destroyed after US...

Italian World War II poster. 'Here are the liberators'. Shows the Statue of Liberty as an angel of death, with Italian cities destroyed after US bombing. Published by government of the Italian Social Republic (SALO).

War bonds poster depicts a caricature of German Chancellor Adolf Hilter with his arms raised, as though surrendering, accompanied by the text 'Let's...

'Let's Make Him "Heil" With Both Hands!'

World War II, Poster

Poster entitled 'Secretaries Of War' depicts four smiling women in business attire as the pose against an American flag background, early to mid...

'Secretaries Of War'

Poster, World War II

Poster entitled 'Food Comes First' depicts a farmer as he tills the land with a tractor while fighters and bombers fly overhead and, in the distance,...

'Food Comes First'

Poster, Tractor, World War II

Travel poster, published by the Mexican Tourist Association, features illustration of woman with headscarf and braids clutching a colorful array of...

Mexican Travel Poster

Poster, Archival, Mexico

Propaganda poster published by the Departmento Historica Militar during the Second World War depicting a son leaving his mother to join the army....

Propaganda poster published by the Departmento Historica Militar.

October's "bright blue weather," A good time to read! Poster from between 1936 and 1940 for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading...

Reading poster by Albert M. Bender

The 1930 FIFA World Cup, Uruguay, 1930. Private Collection. Creator: Laborde, Guillermo .

The 1930 Fifa World Cup

Recruitment poster seeking aviators for the Imperial Japanese Navy, c. 1940.

Japan: Recruitment poster seeking aviators for the Imperial Japanese Navy, c. 1940

Japan, Recruitment, Navy

The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its...

Japan: Children depicted as warriors bestriding Imperial Japan including Korea, 'Manchukuo' China and part of the Soviet Far East. Japanese Militarist-Fascist art, c. 1940

Japan, World War II, Propaganda

Poster for the antisemitic film The Eternal Jew, 1940. Private Collection. Artist Anonymous.

Poster For The Antisemitic Film The Eternal Jew

Nazism, Anti Semitism, Germany

Poster announces an Negro League baseball game between the Kansas City Monarchs and the Memphis Red Sox at Dietz Stadium , Kingston, New York, mid...

Kansas City Monarchs Vs Memphis Red Sox Poster

Negro League Baseball, Match - Sport, Poster

Long Live the Victorious Nation! Long Live Our Dear Stalin.aEo Russian propaganda poster 1940.

Russian Propaganda Poster 1940.

Propaganda, Joseph Stalin, Former Soviet Union

Poster produced by the Bethlehem Steel Company entitled 'The Navy Needs To Avenge Pearl Harbor; Let's Go' features an image of a battleship as it...

'The Navy Needs To Avenge Pearl Harbor'

Poster, World War II, Pearl Harbor Attack

Your own vegetables all the year round_if you Dig for Victory Now�. Dufaycolor colour transparency copy of a British Second World War propaganda...

Dig for Victory poster, c 1940.

Carrot, Digging, Cabbage

Poster produced by the Railway Executive Committee during the Second World War to highlight wartime priorities. Passengers had to be patient when...

Food, Shells and Fuel Must Come First, REC poster, 1940.

Poster, World War II, Advertisement

Under the title 'It Takes Taxes and Bonds,' the Uncle Sam character, a personification of the United States of America, writes in a large ledger...

'It Takes Taxes And Bonds'

World War II, Poster, Uncle Sam

Poster entitled 'Help Win the War, Squeeze in One More' depicts a 26 people stacked in an open-top car as they sing 'Hi ho! Hi ho! It's Off to Work...

'Help Win The War, Squeeze In One More'

USA, War, Cartoon

Poster advertises the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus features the head of a roaring leapard against a green background, along with the...

Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus Poster

World War II color poster depicting people stacked in a vehicle encourages carpooling to save resources and reads "Hi Ho! It's off to work we go....

WWII Poster Encourages Carpooling

World War II, Poster, USA

Propaganda poster published by the Departmento Historica Militar during the Second World War depicting two soldiers pointing. Dated 20th Century.

Propaganda poster published by the Departmento Historica Militar during the Second World War.

Poster, Fascism, Italy

Propaganda poster published by the Departmento Historica Militar during the Second World War depicting a mother who has lost her son looking proud....

Propaganda poster published by the Departmento Historica Militar.

Fascism, Italy, Family

Park ranger in an office with a plethora of posters about preventing forest fires, most of which feature Smokey the Bear.

Ranger With Smokey The Bear Posters

Vintage poster illustration of a bustling city by the sea promoting tourism in India ‘Visit India. Land of sunshine & colour’, 1940s.

Travel Poster for India

India, Tourism, Poster

Vintage travel poster illustration for Banff, Canada, with a smiling woman in the foreground and the Banff Springs Hotel in the background, ‘Banff...

Banff Travel Poster

Archival, Travel, Canada

Vintage illustration of a cabin and giant Sequoia on a lake with a rowboat, against a backdrop of green forest, 1940s.

Lake Cabin in Trees

Log Cabin, Lake

Vintage illustration of Cedar of Lebanon, Arabic Script, Cedars of God, 1940s.

Cedar of Lebanon, Arabic Script

Vintage color photograph of a ‘Rural Electrification Program’ poster featuring a woman sliding baked rolls out of an oven, 1940s. Graphic colors...

A Better Home, Rural Electrification Administration Poster

New Deal, Poster, Kitchen

British recruitment poster for Home guard; world war two 1940.

Home Guard, World War II, Poster

Million new victims each year. U.S. Public Health Service, United States, mid-1940s.

Public health poster for Syphilis.

Treponema Pallidum, Healthcare And Medicine, Sexually Transmitted Disease

Poster for Terry O. Morse 's 1940 romance film 'British Intelligence' starring Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, and Bruce Lester.

British Intelligence

Poster advertising a slave sale, John Carter was the name of the slave owner and he was posting them for sale because he was moving Indiana which was...

Slave Sale Poster

Slavery, USA, African People

Lobby card for Busby Berkeley's 1940 film musical 'Strike Up The Band', starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.

Strike Up The Band

The Nazis denounce the repression to the civil people during Occupation first soviet Union . They publish propaganda articles and photographs in...

Victims of communist terror.

Former Soviet Union, Latvia, Poster

Poster of Winston Churchill, designed by students at the Brighton School of Art.

Churchill Poster

Winston Churchill - Prime Minister, World War II, Poster

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