How Propaganda Posters Helped Win Two World Wars

Many iconic images in World War I and II started out as posters

World War I posters. University of Washington, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Moulin Rouge, an 1891 color poster created by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, turned the poster into a fine art form.

Posters were celebrated via exhibitions and in magazines in 1890s Paris, France. But it was World War I, known at the time…