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Vandalized Victor Berger Campaign Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. The poster was used by Berger, Socialist candidate for the U.S. Senate in the camp...
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Nixon Ultimate Sacrifice Poster

Date: 05 1972
Description: Poster publicizing a rally and candlelight march around the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall and Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. Presiden...
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Free The Camp McCoy 3 Poster

Date: 12 1972
Description: Poster advocating for the release of the Camp McCoy 3--Tom Chase, Steve Geden, and Daniel Kreps, 3 GI's--for their involvement in the bombing of Camp McCoy...
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La Raza Y El Movimiento

Date: 04 1975
Description: Poster publicizing La Raza Y El Movimiento event at the Great Hall in the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union in Madison, Wisconsin. Image of Chicano st...
Poster

El Dia De La Revolucion

Date: 11 1974
Description: Poster advertising El Dia De La Revolution, November 16, 1974, at Union South at University of Wisconsin Madison. Guest speakers include, Guadalupe Youngbl...
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Wisconsin Traveler Poster

Date: 
Description: Poster publicizing "Wisconsin Traveler," possibly a musical group. Features a hand-drawn and hand-colored drawing of a fiddle player, a banjo player, and s...
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Green Lantern Eating Cooperative

Date: 11 27 1970
Description: Poster advertising the Green Lantern Eating Cooperative on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In addition to being an eating cooperative, The Gree...
Poster

Boycott Polaroid

Date: 12 29 1970
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of Polaroid cameras due to the company's supposed involvement in South Africa's apartheid regime. A list of grievances and de...
Poster

First Steam Passenger Train

Date: 
Description: Woodcut image of the first steam passenger train ever run in the United States. The locomotive pulls a wood car and two passenger cars.
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Anti-U.S. Military Ball

Date: 01 21 1971
Description: Poster advertising an Anti-U.S. Military Ball, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union. Features a woman with a gun slung over her sho...
Poster

On The Job For Victory

Date: 1914
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...
Poster

WLA Exhibit Poster: Open Air Schools

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I...
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"Daddy's a War Worker...Share Your Home With Us"

Date: 1944
Description: National Housing Agency Design No. 3, "Woman and Two Children." Shows a troubled mother sitting with her arm around her young daughter and her son standing...
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Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
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Stay on the Job - Buy War Bonds - 7th War Loan

Date: 1945
Description: Treasury Design, title and number unknown. The poster features a blue-collar couple holding up war bonds on the left, and a white-collar couple holding up ...
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Buy War Bonds for Fighting Power Today

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 25, "Blue Prints." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is an explosive battle scene in shades of dark blue. On the ...
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"You've Done Your Bit... Now Do Your Best" - Buy More War Bonds

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 23, "Do Your Best." The poster features Uncle Sam standing facing toward a couple with his hand reached out to rest on the man's should...
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Your Job Should Be A War Job

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 5, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...
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The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 4, "Women at Work." The poster features a crowd of women in various work uniforms lined up along the left border. The su...
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Are You in a War Job? ..If Not, See U.S. Employment Service

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 3, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...

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