The Posters & Their Stories

History & Politics 36

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon (Apollo 11)

Neil Armstrong · 1969

Space

American Gothic, Washington, D.C.

Gordon Parks · 1942

Civil rights

Emmeline Pankhurst

Unknown · 1858-1928

Suffrage

Millicent Fawcett

Unknown · 1847-1929

Suffrage

Emily Wilding Davison

Unknown · 1872-1913

Suffrage

Florence Nightingale

Unknown · 1820-1910

Nursing

Ada Lovelace

Unknown · 1815-1852

Computing

Queen Elizabeth I

Unknown · 1533-1603

Tudor England

Elizabeth Fry

Unknown · 1780-1845

Prison reform

Mary Seacole

Unknown · 1805-1881

Nursing

Sophia Duleep Singh

Unknown · 1876-1948

Suffrage

McCarthy: He Stood Up Alone and Something Happened

McCarthy for President campaign (photo attributed to Rick Clark) · 1968

US politics

Votes for Women: International Suffragists' Song

Ed. Markel · 1916

Suffrage

Every Girl Pulling for Victory

Edward Penfield · 1918

WWI

Dig for Victory

His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) · 1939-1945

WWII

Pour le Triomphe, Souscrivez a l'Emprunt National

Sem (Georges Goursat) · c.1918

WWI

Joan of Arc Saved France

W. Haskell Coffin · 1918

WWI

Pour la Liberte du Monde

Sem (Georges Goursat) · 1917

WWI

Be a Marine, Free a Marine to Fight

US Marine Corps (Office of War Information) · 1943

WWII

I Want You for U.S. Army

James Montgomery Flagg · 1917

WWI

For Every Fighter a Woman Worker

Adolph Treidler · 1918

WWI

The Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris

Albert Fernique (photographer) · c.1883-84

Monuments

Peary's sledge party at the North Pole

Robert E. Peary expedition · April 1909

Exploration

Dig On For Victory

Peter Fraser · c.1944

WWII

We Can Do It!

J. Howard Miller · 1943

WWII

Fight with National War Bonds

Unknown (printed by Hill, Siffken & Co.) · c.1917-18

WWI

Women of Britain Say 'Go!'

E.J. Kealey · 1915

WWI

Wish or Work? Pluck Makes Luck

Hal Depuy · 1929

Motivation

Pillars of Creation

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope · 2014 (first imaged 1995)

Space

Keep Calm and Carry On

UK Ministry of Information · 1939

WWII

Sew for Victory

Pistchal (WPA War Services) · c.1941-43

WWII

Build for your Navy! Enlist!

Robert Muchley · c.1941-43

WWII

Migrant Mother

Dorothea Lange · 1936

Great Depression

Loose Lips Might Sink Ships

Seymour R. Goff (Essargee) · 1942

WWII

For Home and Country: Victory Liberty Loan

Alfred Everitt Orr · c.1918-19

WWI

The Blue Marble

Apollo 17 crew (NASA) · 1972

Space

English Literature 76

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth · 1770-1850

Romantic poetry

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson · 1830-1886

American poetry

Robert Frost

Robert Frost · 1874-1963

American poetry

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman · 1819-1892

American poetry

Lord Byron

Lord Byron · 1788-1824

Romantic poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1792-1822

Romantic poetry

John Keats

John Keats · 1795-1821

Romantic poetry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772-1834

Romantic poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer · c.1343-1400

Medieval poetry

John Milton

John Milton · 1608-1674

Epic poetry

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1809-1892

Victorian poetry

The Jabberwock (Through the Looking-Glass)

Lewis Carroll (illustrated by John Tenniel) · 1871

Nonsense verse

Alice and the Flamingo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Lewis Carroll (illustrated by John Tenniel) · 1865

Children's classic

The White Knight and Alice (Through the Looking-Glass)

Lewis Carroll (illustrated by John Tenniel) · 1871

Children's classic

Don Quixote and the Windmills

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

Classic novel

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798

Romantic poetry

Gulliver among the Lilliputians

Jonathan Swift · 1726

Satire

The Trees and the Axe

Aesop · c.6th century BCE

Fable

Robinson Crusoe and the Footprint

Daniel Defoe · 1719

Adventure novel

The Droeshout Portrait of Shakespeare

Martin Droeshout · 1623

Shakespeare

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe · c.1660-1731

Early novel

Jane Austen

Jane Austen · 1775-1817

Classic novel

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens · 1812-1870

Victorian novel

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte · 1816-1855

Victorian novel

Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte · 1818-1848

Victorian novel

Anne Bronte

Anne Bronte · 1820-1849

Victorian novel

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

George Eliot · 1819-1880

Victorian novel

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley · 1797-1851

Science fiction

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy · 1840-1928

Victorian novel

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf · 1882-1941

Modernism

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence · 1885-1930

Modern novel

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad · 1857-1924

Empire

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins · 1824-1889

Detective fiction

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift · 1667-1745

Satire

Mark Twain

Mark Twain · 1835-1910

American novel

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe · 1809-1849

Gothic horror

Herman Melville

Herman Melville · 1819-1891

American novel

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1804-1864

American novel

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau · 1817-1862

Nature writing

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1896-1940

Jazz Age

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway · 1899-1961

Modern fiction

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1850-1894

Adventure fiction

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1859-1930

Detective fiction

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1865-1936

Empire

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott · 1832-1888

American novel

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin · 1850-1904

Feminism

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde · 1854-1900

Wit and drama

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells · 1866-1946

Science fiction

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Arthur Rackham (illustrator) · 1906

Children's illustration

The Little Mermaid

Edmund Dulac (illustrator) · 1911

Fairy tale

The Magic Horse (Arabian Nights)

Edmund Dulac (illustrator) · 1907

Arabian Nights

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Arthur Rackham (illustrator) · 1908

Shakespeare

Paradise Lost

Gustave Doré (after John Milton) · 1866

Epic poetry

Snow White

Arthur Rackham (after the Brothers Grimm) · 1909

Fairy tales

The Pilgrim's Progress: Christian Reading in His Book

William Blake (after John Bunyan) · c.1824-1827

Allegory

The Death of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls

Sidney Paget · 1893

Detective fiction

The Knight (Ellesmere Chaucer)

Unknown illuminator · c.1400-1410

Medieval literature

The Tyger

William Blake · 1794

Romantic poetry

The Lamb

William Blake · 1789

Romantic poetry

London

William Blake · 1794

Romantic poetry

The Sick Rose

William Blake · 1794

Romantic poetry

Infant Joy

William Blake · 1789

Romantic poetry

Holy Thursday

William Blake · 1789

Romantic poetry

The Chimney Sweeper

William Blake · 1789

Romantic poetry

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Title Page)

William Blake · 1794

Romantic poetry

The Ancient of Days

William Blake · 1794

Illuminated books

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

William Blake · c.1805

Biblical art

When the Morning Stars Sang Together

William Blake · 1825

Biblical art

Mary Wollstonecraft

After John Opie · 1759-1797

Feminism

Aphra Behn

Attributed to Sir Peter Lely · 1640-1689

Restoration drama

Frances 'Fanny' Burney

Edward Francisco Burney · 1752-1840

The novel

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Unknown engraver · 1806-1861

Victorian poetry

Christina Rossetti

Unknown · 1830-1894

Victorian poetry

Phillis Wheatley

Attributed to Scipio Moorhead · c.1753-1784

Early American poetry

Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)

Daniel Orme, after W. Denton · c.1745-1797

Abolition

Ignatius Sancho

Francesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Gainsborough · c.1729-1780

Abolition

The Forum · Human Rights 3

Charter of the United Nations

United Nations · 1945

United Nations

Charter of the United Nations

United Nations · 1945

United Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

United Nations · 1948

Human rights

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