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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 31. The poster features naval warfare, with many ships in the background and a sailor and officer in the foreground. One sailor is peer... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 12, "Whistle." The poster features a whistle blowing and emitting smoke with the silhouette of a factory in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | WAVES Design No. 2, "WAVE and Sailors." The poster features a woman in a naval uniform, with two sailors standing behind her. WAVES is the acronym for Wome... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Food Administration Design No. 4, "Smiling Grocer." The poster features the neighborhood grocer with an apron and a pencil tucked behind his ear agains... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | WAVES Unnumbered Design, "Mother and Daughter." The poster features a proud mother with her arm around her daughter, who is in naval uniform. In the backgr... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Food Administration Design No. 2, "Market Basket." The poster features a background with farmland on the left and factories on the left. In the upper f... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | National Housing Agency Design No. 2, "Convert Extra Space." The poster features a well-kept suburban home with a flagpole emerging from the garden. To the... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 36, "Periscope." The poster features a Japanese battle ship under attack as seen through a periscope. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 35, "Crowd with Banners." The poster features a determined crowd of American civilians from all walks of life holding up signs in suppo... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 34, "Let Em' Have It." The poster features a soldier preparing to throw a grenade over barbed wire into a burning field. In the bottom ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 33, "Periscope View - 4th War Loan." The poster features a Japanese battle ship under attack as seen through a periscope. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 31, "Tanks in Action." The poster features tanks and soldiers pressing forward in a battle scene. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design, title and number unknown. The poster features a bleeding soldier being carried off a battlefield on a stretcher by four other soldiers. |
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