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Filter: Subject of world war, 1914-1918
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a loaf of bread being sliced by someone using a knife. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of soldiers silhouetted against a colorful sky riding on horseback and carrying an American flag. In the foreground is a basket... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of refugees moving along a ruined street; one woman is wearing a nun's habit. Text reads: "They cannot fight & raise food at th... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a man eating at a table in a restaurant and smoking a cigar. Food is still on the plates in front of him. Male waiters in th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel depicting Uncle Sam firing a cannon labeled: "American Industry" to send supplies across the Atlantic towards people stand... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a man with a fierce look on his face while taking off his suit coat. His hat is on the ground near a newspaper with the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of four Marine corpsmen on a beach, with one Marine holding an American flag and another Marine a Marines flag. The other ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of two Marines corpsmen at a beach fort. One Marine is raising a U.S. flag while the other Marine is saluting. In the back... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a boy battling a kettle of vultures. The boy is holding a pitchfork in one hand and making a fist with the other. Poste... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of several soldiers marching in silhouette. They are holding the flags of the various groups that would become the First C... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a woman with a baby tied to her back, standing amid the ruins of some buildings. Poster text reads: Lest They Perish. C... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an oversized Liberty Loan button of 1917, which includes the Statue of Liberty and the words: "Get Behind the Government, Liberty Loan of ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of Miss Columbia wearing a gauzy dress holding an American flag. Behind her American soldiers are charging. Poster text re... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a naval gunner crew preparing a deck gun. Above them is Miss Columbia in a gauzy dress, with an American flag behind he... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster reprinting a letter from Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo. The letter reads: "American does not intend to become spoil for the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a smiling, bloody and bandaged soldier holding two war helmets by their chinstraps in his left hand; with his right he ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a caricature of General John Pershing, and a hand holding a piece of paper labelled WSS. Poster text reads: "Is this your hand? Yes! If yo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicts Uncle Sam with his arms around a soldier and a man in a suit. The man in the suit is holding a piece of paper labelled W.S.S. for War-saving... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicts several cross-shaped gravestones at the top of a hill. Twisted barbed wire fencing appears behind them. Poster text reads: They give their l... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster in the appearance of a newspaper, touting the financial advantages of buying War Saving Stamps. Several small sections of text appear, with headline... |
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