Political Posters

Black and red ink on white lithograph depicting Redmond as a cat ("Irish American Party"), toying with Asquith as the mouse of "Government", produced by the Unionist Party, December 1910...Artist: Unknown.Print More

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One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 186 More

A racist poster attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate John White Geary for his support of black suffrage. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The artist purports to show the conventi More

Print shows Ulysses S. Grant, bust portrait, facing slightly right, and Schuyler Colfax, bust portrait, facing slightly left, with brief biographies of each, also with text of the Republican Party platform, as More

Print shows Uncle Sam strolling through a maze of presidential campaign posters along "Presidential Avenue" being posted by several of the candidates, including William "McKinley on his High Charger 'War-Tariff More

Print shows political campaign poster with bust portraits of, on the left, Theodore Roosevelt, for president, and, on the right, Charles W. Fairbanks, for vice president, in medallions separated by an eagle hol More

Illustration shows James K. Jones posting a campaign poster labeled "Conservatism" for William Jennings Bryan, covering up an earlier campaign poster showing Bryan and labeled "In His Roaring Farce Free Silver" More

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COLL MISC 0519_072.Full colour lithograph showing a character in a top hat and spats (representing Radicalism) and a worker in a red shirt and cap (Socialism) attempting to drag Asquith through two doors marked More

Campbell-Bannerman stands at the top of a flight of steps (called Radicalism, Inefficient Army and Navy, Home Rule, and Disunited Empire) that lead from the sunlight down into a dark and fetid pool called "Ruin More

Bannerman is shown in a brass bed, a Union flag hanging like a curtain to the left. He it sitting up, dressed in a nightshirt and night cap, staring at a realistically-portayed drowned black cat, which is walki More

COLL MISC 0519-045.Small poster showing John Bull resting against a tree in a wood, having been assaulted and robbed by unidentified men dressed in black frock coats and top hats. The men are carrying bags call More

COLL MISC 0519_070.Lithograph showing a night scene outside 'Constitution House' with Asquith

COLL MISC 0519-3.Cartoon satirizing the relationship between the Liberal Party and the Irish nationalists, featuring Campbell-Bannerman as a nervous bride in a wedding dress, and John Redmond as her illegitimat More

COLL MISC 0519-5.Full colour lithograph showing a "cheerful idiot" inviting three Radicals to join him in the Barmyville Asylum.\r\nArtist: George Belcher\r\nPrinter: McCorquodale and Co. Ltd\r\nPublisher: Prin More

COLL MISC 0519_025.Copy of cartoon from the Westminster Gazette? showing Asquith as John Bull giving cheap sugar and an old age pension to a child and an elderly couple, while Chaplin and Austen Chamberlain, dr More

COLL MISC 0519-1.Full text lithograph in red ink on white paper. Campaign poster for the 1892 General Election for George Allsopp, Conservative and Unionist candidate for the City of Worcester, 1885-1906.\r\n More

Instructions on ordering single letter posters to be hung to form slogans such as \Socialism Denies Liberty\" and \"Tariff Reform Means More Work\"

COLL MISC 0519-044.The Bulldog of Labour, dressed in working man's clothes, and carrying a bag labelled Cheap Food in its mouth, crosses a bridge called Free Trade, rather than risking the semi-submerged rock o More

COLL MISC 0519_056.Lithograph showing Redmond aiming a cannon named "Irish-American Party" at a row of peers (labelled "Home Rule") outside the House of Lords. The canonballs are money bags containing US dollar More

COLL MISC 0519_047.Lithograph, red and black in on white paper. A foaming tankard engraved with various slogans, with an unidentified politician's face in the foam, above a quote from a meeting held in the Ci More

COLL MISC 0519_063.Black and white full text poster, produced for the Liberal Unionist Council.\r\nArtist: Unknown\r\nPrinter: McCorquodale and Co Ltd\r\nPublisher: Printer\r\nPlace of Production: London

COLL MISC 0519-062.Black and white full text lithograph regarding the electoral register, produced for the Liberal Unionist

Small poster showing a fisherman (unidentified politician) baiting his hook with worms called Full Employment and Higher Wages, with his fishing basket, \Protection\"

Featuring Miss Apprehension, Miss Quotation, Miss Construction, Miss Statement and Miss Representation...Artist: Unknown.Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd.Publisher: Printer.Place of Production: London.Date: c19 More

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COLL MISC 0519_035.Black ink lithograph illustrating Asquith's second budget, showing Asquith standing outside the Treasury facing a middle class man in a top hat and a working class man with a bag on his back. More

COLL MISC 0519-4Campbell-Bannerman, dressed in a red frock and white apron, is shown mixing a bowl of \Radical Programme\" in a kitchen. He offers a spoonful of the mixture to John Bull

COLL MISC 0519_055.Full text poster in red ink on yellow paper, urging electors to vote for Frank Smith, the Labour Party candidate for Taunton in the 1910 General Election.\r\nArtist: Unknown\r\nPrinter: The C More

COLL MISC 0519-028.John Bull is seen standing outside a Church School door, which bears a sign reading \For Head and Assistant Master and Mistress-ships

Cartoon of Balfour holding a plate in front of him with a small loaf of bread on it. Text banner at top and caption at bottom. Liberal poster protesting against a proposed tax on food.\r\nArtist: F.B\r\nPrinter More

COLL MISC 0519_048.Black and red ink full text poster comparing the achievements of the Tory government of 1895-1905, and the Liberal government of 1906-1908. Subjects covered include taxation, national debt, w More

COLL MISC 0519_075.Three colour lithograph (black, blue, red) produced for the Liberal Central Association, comparing the Liberals record on reducing the National Debt with that of the Conservatives, between 18 More

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Satirical Liberal poster based upon a popular soap commercial at the time. Joseph Chamberlain is pictured blowing policy bubbles into the air and watches aggrieved as they burst. He has already witnessed the bu More

A Tory wearing a monocle, spats, and a top hat with \Tariff Reform\" written on it

Asquith is shown trying to cover up a poster advocating Tariff Reform with one reading "Down With the Lords", while a British Workman berates him from the ground...Artist: Unknown.Printer: McCorquodale and Co.P More

Scene outside a mine in the Transvaal, with Campbell-Bannerman addressing a British workman in a bowler hat and good suit. Cartoon Chinese workers are seen in the background. Bannerman is sympathising with the More

Cartoon showing John Bull shaking hands with a Japanese soldier, against the Union Flag and Japanese flag, with a packet marked \Alliance\" at their feet. Text banner top and bottom.\r\nArtist: E Huskinson\r\nP More

COLL MISC 0519_043.Lithograph in red and black ink on white page, showing John Bull stopping Lansdowne and Balfour in the street, who have a large bulldog representing the House of Commons reined in on a leash More

COLL MISC 0519_9.British politicians forced to forced to endure the stink of Campbell-Bannerman's \cigar\" of Irish Home Rule. Stylish image in three colours and black on white paper

Black ink on green paper, with a cartoon of John Redmond raising his fist, and a quote of Redmond's regarding home rule, produced for the Unionist Party...Artist: Unknown.Printer: Dobson, Molle and Co..Publishe More

Lithograph cartoon (red and blue on white), depicting John Bull, Uncle Sam and ?Kaiser Bill, with text banner top and bottom, and a poem on free trade begining "There was a young man of Berlin..." Pro-Tariff Re More

Lithograph depicting Asquith as a hare being chased across a field by two greyhounds (John Redmond and Keir-Hardie), produced for the Conservative and Unionist parties in December 1910...Artist: Unknown.Printer More

COLL MISC 0519_088.A fat shopkeeper stands behind a counter next to baskets piled high with bread, with shelves loaded with foreign produce behind him. A small thin boy in tattered clothes stands in front of t More

Produced by the Liberal Party for the forthcoming election. Lists and illustrates the Tory record during the previous Government and identifies various shortcomings such as its Free Trade record, South Africa a More

The Reverend Stiggins (?) is shown accosting a small schoolboy in a country lane, with the words \What! your father wants you to learn the Church Catechism

Reproduction of a portrait of Chamberlain? in sepia tones, set in against a burnt orange backgroud, with the title below the picture, and the heading, "Tariff Reform League" at the top...Artist: Unknown.Printer More

\Judge John Bull\" finds the Tory Government guilty of numerous offences relating to Britain's conduct in the Boer War

COLL MISC 0519_034.[A J Balfour] posing as a conjuror or magician, stands behind a covered table, and places an egg named \Khaki 1900\" into John Bull's hat. [Joseph Chamberlain] peeks from behind the table cov More

Spoof on the fairy story \Babes in the Wood\"

COLL MISC 0519_083.A farmer sits on a railway platform with crates and baskets of produce , watching a train called the Foreign Produce Express loaded with foreign produce, steaming past. He laments the need fo More

COLL MISC 0519_077.The tale of a \little dorg\" who changed his name from \"Moderate\" to \"Minicipal Reform\" in order to gain admittance to a lady's house

Campbell-Bannerman shown being castigated by John Bull for the election image of 'chinese slavery' used by the Liberal Party during their successful election campaign of 1905. ..Artist: Unknown.Printer: A Whit More

Spoof of nursery rhyme 'Old Mother Hubbard, showing Chamberlain dressed as an old lady opening the 'Old Age Pensions Cupboard' for her dog called 'Aged Poor'. Satirical version of nursery rhyme below image, and More

COLL MISC 0519_060.Full text lithograph produced by the Liberal Unionist council, Great George Street, London, regarding the electoral register.\r\nArtist: Unknown\r\nPrinter: McCorquodale and Co Ltd\r\nPublish More

COLL MISC 0519_074.Full text poster in black on white paper, with large graphs in blue and red ink. The graphs compare the expenditure of Tory and Liberal governments between 1875-1886, to the detriment of the More

COLL MISC 0519-6.Bannerman and John Bull are shown walking arm in arm along a pleasant street. In the foreground, hidden from their view, an Irish nationalist is waiting with a gun and a club. He is unshaven, a More

COLL MISC 0519_078.Black and red ink on white paper. Lithograph showing two British workers standing outside a closed factory, with a sign on the gate denouncing foreign competition and recommending the reform More

John Bull reaches out to lay his hand in a benedictory fashion upon the shoulder of a reluctant but noble-looking Balfour...Artist: Unknown.Printer: McCorquodale and Co .Publisher: Printer.Place of Production: More

Chaplin is shown standing on a beach talking to a \Working Man\"

COLL MISC 0519-053.Cartoon showing John Bull addressing Asquith, who is sitting on an agitated horse called British Constitution outside the Houses of Parliament. A Peer is seated on the horse behind Asquith, c More

COLL MISC 0519-76.Handbill produced for John Allen's campaign to stand for the New District Council on the platform of making St. Anne's-on-the-Sea \one of the healthiest and most attractive Health Resorts in t More

COLL MISC 0519-10.Central image with title at top and caption below. Campbell-Bannerman and a small party of thuggish men stand by a street corner. One man is dressed in a fur hat and ragged clothes (\Alien\")

Cartoon based on "the Radical 'Infamous Poster'", showing John Redmond herding a chain gang of politicians including Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith, towards the Home Rule Compound. The caption at the bottom of More

Lithograph depicting Justice (armed with the Sword of Temperance) pulling the disguise from a British Lion to reveal an unidentified politician's drink-flushed face. The lion is standing on a scroll representin More

COLL MISC 0519_081.Black and red lithograph on white paper showing a British workman asleep as a pipe-smoking Dutchman? with a suitcase creeps around the corner from the docks. Banner top and bottom quoting Cha More

COLL MISC 0519-66.Full text poster comparing food prices under the Radical and Unionist governments in 1908 and 1905 respectively.

COLL MISC 0519_087.Full text poster in red and black ink on cream paper, detailing unemployment, poverty, and emigration as the results of Free Trade. Produced by the Tariff Reform League.\r\nArtist: Unknown\r\ More

COLL MISC 0519_059.Full colour lithograph with red banner top and bottom, produced for the Liberal Unionist Council. The illustration is a pastiche of a packet of John Player's Navy Cut tobacco, set against a b More

Full colour lithograph depicting John Redmond, dressed in Kelly green with a waistcoat covered in shamrocks, standing on some money bags containing US dollars, and reaching up for a jar on a shelf above him cal More

COLL MISC 0519_88.Lithograph showing a small boy trying to buy bread in a \Free Trade store\"

Liberal Unionist poster depicting the British Bulldog taking a large bite out of the impending spectre of Socialism in the country. ..Artist: Unknown.Printer: N Corquodale & Company.Publisher: Printer.Place of More

COLL MISC 0519_038.Half page of text with bar chart comparing levels of taxation under Tory and Liberal governments, 1865-1885. Lithograph in black ink with red and blue bar chart, produced for the Liberal Cen More

Campbell-Bannerman pictured in bed, his blanket of radical policies being torn into pieces by various problem children/issues such as 'Home Rule'. 'Alien', 'Small army and navy', 'Little England' and 'Sectarian More

Full colour lithograph showing ? standing in a garden outside the \Radical Conservatory\" with a watering can

Music hall style poster showing John Redmond as a ventriloquist with Bannerman as his mannequin, balanced on his knee...Artist: Unknown.Printer: A White and Co.Publisher: Conservative Central Office.Place of Pr More

Lithograph depicting a Free Trade Shop selling all sorts of imported goods, with an unemployed British workman standing outside being discussing the unattainable goods on display whilst the wealthy German owner More

COLL MISC 0519_073.Full text poster in red ink on white paper, produced by the Conservative and Unionist parties.\r\nArtist: Unknown\r\nPrinter: McCorquodale and Co\r\nPublisher: Printer\r\nPlace of Production: London

Tariff reform poster explaining that a positive outcome of reform would be more grain in the Mill...Artist: Unknown.Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd.Publisher: Printer.Place of Production: London.Date: c1905-c1 More

Liberal Party poster clearly displaying the differences between an economy based on Free Trade and Protectionism. The Free Trade shop is full to the brim of customers due to its low prices whilst the shop based More

Satire based on the nursery rhyme of the old lady who lived in a shoe, with Bannerman as the old lady, sitting in the road and blocking his ears. Behind him, the shoe is overflowing with characters representing More

Blue and red ink on white paper, illustrating the increase in the price of tea and sugar under a Tory government (Tory government of 1905 compared to Liberal government of 1895), produced for the Liberal Party. More

COLL MISC 0519-086.Black and red ink full text poster with very detailed statistics from the Report of the Royal Commission on Depression of Trade, 1886,in order to illustrate \The Cause for the Decline in Brit More

Lithograph in black and red ink on white paper showing a caricature of John Redmond armed with a club called "Home Rule" with a large money bag containing US dollars in each hand, produced for the Unionist Part More

COLL MISC 0519_050.Full text poster in black and red ink on white warning against Tariff Reform. Unemployment in Europe (especially Germany) and the USA are cited to illustrate the dangers of Tariff Reform.\r\n More

Lithographs showing Brittania sitting alone in a stagecoach named "Free Trade; 1846" on the road to Prosperity, waiting to be joined by the figures representing Germany, France, Austria, USA, Switzerland and Ru More

COLL MISC 0519-067.Full text poster in red and black ink on white paper, arguing that Radical policies have increased the cost of living. Poster produced for the Liberal Unionist Council.

Red and black lithograph on white paper, showing John Bull standing at a dock at sunset, watching ships leaving "Free Trade Ruin" (a run-down port) for the skyscapers of "Protection Prosperity" (the USA), produ More

Liberal Unionist Party poster depicting the perils of following a free trade policy. They argue that when foriegn goods are stockpiled the man people to suffer will be the British workman...Artist: Unknown.Prin More

COLL MISC 0519_027.Black and red ink full text poster on white paper, regarding the popular image of the Licensing Bill.\r\nArtist: Unknown\r\nPrinter: Waterlow and Sons Ltd\r\nPublisher: Liberal Publications D More

John Bull is seen standing on an outline map of the British Isles (he stands squarely between London and the Midlands), facing a "Tory peer"-type who is dressed in hunting clothes, ermine-trimmed robes, and a m More

COLL MISC 0519_051.A lithograph depicting a Tommy Atkins figure attempting to rouse a sleeping John Bull to act against Chinese \semi-slavery\" in the Transvaal. In the background

Full colour lithograph showing Haldane (in Army uniform), and McKenna (in Naval uniform) standing on the white cliffs of Dover, satirising cuts in spending on the armed forces. Poster produced for the Liberal U More

Black and red ink on white paper. Lithograph produced for the Liberal Party showing a British housewife attempting to buy white bread in a shop in German, but being offered only black bread...Artist: Unknown.Pr More

COLL MISC 0519_040.Full colour lithograph showing Balfour up a ladder in a flat cap and Chamberlain pasting a sign reading "Beware of Home Rule" over the top of Liberal posters criticising their taxation polici More

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