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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Culture: | Chinese
| | Title: | Our Armies Will Bend but Will Not Break
| | Date Made: | 1942
| | Type: | Poster
| | Place Made: | Asia; China
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 31 in x 10 in; 78.7 cm x 25.4 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTION: recto, ctr. ctr. (black ink on white background): [Chinese character, Yi qian pu hou ji de jing shen cui hui kuang kou de bao li!]; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. ctr. (red i nk on black background): [Chinese character, Jun shi wei yuan hui zheng zhi bu zhi]; STAMP: recto, upp. r. (stamp with black ink): Our Armies will bend / But will not Break; STAMP: recto, lwr. r. (stamp with black ink): Our Armies will bend / But will not Break.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2017.29.47
| | Credit Line: | Transfer from the Mount Holyoke College Library
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description: WWII poster in a long vertical style with black, red, and white. The top part is a stylized hand holding a torch over a silhouette of a map of China (including Mongolia). Chinese characters below reads: "Fight to destroy the violence of (Japanese) invaders with perseverance!" Another line at the bottom reads: "Made by the Politics Department of Military Committe."
Tags: posters; wars; propaganda; red; white; black; hands; text; Asian; fires Subjects: Posters; Propaganda; Red; Black; Fires; Hand; text (layout feature); Wars; White Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+2017.29.47 |
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