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Tokyo Rose – Vintage Wall Art

Tokyo Rose — vintage poster
Tokyo Rose. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare vintage poster captures Tokyo Rose in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This color lithograph, printed in Cleveland around 1945, takes the name Tokyo Rose as its subject. American servicemen used that name for the women who read English-language programs on Japanese radio during the Pacific war, and it became shorthand for enemy propaganda. Iva Toguri, a Los Angeles-born Japanese American who was in Japan when the war began, was later convicted of treason in 1949 for her part in those broadcasts. The poster shows how the name had spread into popular imagery, often well beyond the facts.

Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 104 x 69 cm.
NotesCleveland (Ohio) : Morgan Litho. Corp., c1945.
SubjectsTokyo Rose,--1916-2006--Portrayals. Young, Lotus--Performances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,098 × 5,127 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226419

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