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Poster

Type of graphical image created to promote something or as a decoration; publication type

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Images of Poster

4 images from works
  • Hands holding working implements representing managing AIDS
  • Six ill people, with either AIDS or another disease, representing the difficulty of being sure that someone has AIDS.
  • Poster asking for blood donors
  • La Sequanaise poster from L'Etoile Restaurant, 30 Charlotte Street, London.

Images about Poster

86 images from works
  • M. T. Miciano, Spanien : Internationale Konkursausschreibung der Liga der Roten Kreuze.
  • Sharp sound clean smart : four HIV/AIDS and drug education posters commissioned by Mainliners Ltd. / Mainliners Ltd.
  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with explanation about the contamination risks of HIV infected women to their children through pregnancy and childbirth. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • A group of people stand on a rug that appears to float across a world map as they point to the circular design surrounding them bearing the title in Spanish: 'Poster exhibition: 1985-1995' [in Madrid]; an advertisement by Salud y SIDA. Colour lithograph by Ana Capitaine, 1995.
  • A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.
  • Sanitation field worker in Lesotho
  • Estampes, affiches, dessins originaux, tableaux / Pierrefort.
  • A man is standing on a ladder, with a pot of paste on the ground as he sticks a poster to the wall. Etching by the Comte de Caylus and engraving by E. Fessard, 1742, after E. Bouchardon.
  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with a translation explaining what AIDS is. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • [British Red Cross Society greetings card of recruiting poster by Norman Rockwell asking people to "Join the Red Cross"].

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4 works

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    Hands holding working implements representing managing AIDS

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Poster asking for blood donors

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    La Sequanaise poster from L'Etoile Restaurant, 30 Charlotte Street, London.

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Six ill people, with either AIDS or another disease, representing the difficulty of being sure that someone has AIDS.

Related topics

London
Health Promotion
Contests
Red Cross
Societies, Medical
International Cooperation
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Paris
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention

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