As we've noted before, the first half of the 20th Century was really the golden age of poster. After that, color photography and television seems to have really killed it. As media became much more freely available, well, illustrations lost their allure. By the 1950s, the age of mass posters was over, although it'd enjoy a brief revival in the 1960s, with a certain style unique to that period, for concert posters.
None of which means, ironically, that the posters of the early 20th Century still don't retain their original impact in some ways. And for that reason, those of World War Two are frequently recycled and updated. Here, the Canadian Army has done just that.
Pretty clever really.
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