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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Uncle Sam recruiting poster that says "I want You for U.S. Army". Poster has three different addresses for nearest recruiting offices. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Cover of flyer found in the papers of the National Committee to Abolish the Un-American Activities Committee. Founded in 1960, the committee later became ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | "It Can Happen Here," a pamphlet distributed by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. The CACC was founded by Fred C. Schwartz in 1953, the peak of the ant... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Anti-communist brochure, copyright by Harry T. Everingham, Chicago, Illinois, in 1947. The text asks "Why not try Communism?" and replies "The answer is y... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Match book cover distributed by the Superior Match Company of Chicago. The front cover says, "I like McCarthy and his Methods. I am with Joe McCarthy in ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Brochure advertising anti-Communism stamps created and distributed by McAllen, Texas. The handwritten date on the brochure places its publication at the p... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | "The Truth about Senator Joe McCarthy," a pamphlet issued by the McCarthy Club. The text responded to several charges that had been made against Joseph R.... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Brochure about the record of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy issued by the Democratic Organizing Committee of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Democratic Party began t... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | United States Food Administration World War I Poster. "Keep It Coming/ We must not only feed our soldiers at the front but the millions of women and childr... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of the inside of a shipping manufacturer, with men working near a ship in drydock. Text at bottom reads: "On The Job For V... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | War Savings Stamps poster featuring an eagle crushing enemy planes. At the top of the poster is written: "Keep Him Free" and at the bottom: "Buy War Saving... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon of General Douglas MacArthur and Trygve Lie entitled "Please, here's the towel" and captioned "The UN voting machine ratifying the Americ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A two-sided, antisemitic card featuring "Ikie" Eisenhower on the left (with "IKIE" below) and a caricature of a Jewish man on the right (with "US" below). ... |
| Date: | 12 22 1963 |
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| Description: | An advertisement placed in "The Dallas Morning News" on the morning of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The ad attacked Kennedy's foreign an... |
| Date: | 01 16 1984 |
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| Description: | Russian with Cyrillic characters. Poster depicts a person with a "USA" hard hat and dollar signs on his goggles pouring a chemical into a beaker with a CS ... |
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