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Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars” is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through January 21, 2019. The show presents approximately 150 postcards from World War I through the end of World War II.
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Santa Claus (Fake), 1941, color lithograph on card stock.
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Europe marches against Bolshevism, 1942, color lithograph on card stock.
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Gino Boccasile, The advance continues, 1942, color lithograph on card stock.
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The Falange, ca. 1930s, color lithograph on card stock.
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On our collective farm there is no place for popes and kulaks (wealthy farmers), ca. 1930, color lithograph on card stock.
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Keep 'em Flying, 1941, color lithograph on card stock.
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Just a little Something to “Remember Pearl Harbor!”, 1942, color lithograph on card stock.
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Long Live Communism, 1942, color lithograph on card stock.
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5th Camp Dux, Opera Balilla (the Fascist youth movement), 1935, Color lithograph on card stock.
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