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Industrial Safety Shoe Warning Sign

Date: 1921
Description: Industrial safety sign or poster warning factory workers of the dangers of wearing poor shoes at work. The sign's text reads: "Bum Shoe Causes Burn; Ed Gab...
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Industrial Safety Sign: Eye Protection

Date: 1921
Description: Industrial safety sign or poster warning factory workers at Deering Works to wear safety goggles. The sign's text reads: "Men!! Do you realize that your GO...
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Safety Goggles Reminder

Date: 1920
Description: Deering Works industrial safety poster featuring a photograph of a blind man, reminding employees to use their safety goggles while at work. The sign reads...
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Is He Protecting You?

Date: 
Description: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster showing a Mississippi highway patrolman in a helmet stands with his arms crossed. Other people are visible...
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Pro Moto Event Poster

Date: 04 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a Pro Moto [Professional Motocross] event, held in Turtle Park, outside of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Silkscreen print employs an American ...
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International Motocross Poster

Date: 10 1971
Description: Poster publicizing an international motocross event, which took place October 3, 1971 at the Grand Prix track at Turtle Park, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Event ...
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"The Confession" Movie Poster

Date: 02 1972
Description: Poster advertisement for a screening of Costa Gavras's film, "The Confession," starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, screened by the Madison Art Cente...
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Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 10, "Girl War Worker." The poster features a young woman wearing overalls and protective gloves with her hair bound back...
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Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding...
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Fighting Men Need Fighting Metal! - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience...
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Coal Is "Fighting Power" - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ...
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Let 'Em Come ..."V" Homes Are Ready! - Make Yours a "V" Home Now!

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 1, untitled. The poster features a businessman, wearing a white helmet with the Civilian Defense logo, and a small gi...
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"Victory is a Question of Stamina"

Date: 1917
Description: World War I United States Food Administration poster showing two soldiers in full gear running through snow with bayonets drawn. Text reads, "Victory is a ...
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The Next War

Date: 1934
Description: Poster for an anti-war documentary film written by Burnet Hershey and produced by M.J. Kandel for Ideal Pictures Corp.
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"Go Pack Go! Go All The Way!"

Date: 12 1967
Description: A poster that was used in the Green Bay Packers' Sports Committee's "Go Pack Go - Go All the Way" advertising campaign for the 1967 post-season. On the bot...
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No Chemical Weapons!

Date: 01 16 1984
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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"In the Year of the Pig"

Date: 1969
Description: Poster advertising screenings of Emile de Antonio's 1969 documentary "In the Year of the Pig," as promoted by the Committee on Vietnam in New Zealand. The ...
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"Der Killer von Alabama" (Battling Butler) Film Poster

Date: 1960
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the American film. Large image of a boxing glove, with the top of Buster Keaton's head wearing a hat and his glove...
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"Knute Rockne All American" Poster

Date: 1940
Description: Poster for the 1940 film "Knute Rockne All American." Pat O'Brien's face is at the top part of the poster. Ronald Reagan is kicking his leg up in the air o...
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Joan of Arc Saved France

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Joan of Arc. Text reads: "Joan of Arc Saved France. Save Your Country. Buy War Savings Stamps. United States Treasury D...

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