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Wisconsin State Fair Poster

Date: 1900
Description: Color chromolithograph poster advertising the Wisconsin State Fair.
Poster

It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
Poster

Build a Silo

Date: 06 1917
Description: Poster issued by the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin to persuade Wisconsin farmers of the value of a silo. Farmers were par...
Poster

Poster for June Dairy Month

Date: 1941
Description: Poster created by the National Dairy Council, to promote the dairy industry. Poster text reads: "Make America Strong! by Making Americans Stronger. June Da...
Poster

Cranberry Pickers Wanted

Date: 09 01 1884
Description: Poster advertising the need for workers to pick cranberries for the Wisconsin Cranberry Company.
Poster

"Mr. Natural Talks 'Bout Lettuce"

Date: 02 24 1971
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of non-union lettuce at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features a caricatured professor pointi...
Poster

"Viva la Huelga!"

Date: 03 10 1971
Description: Poster promoting a demonstration in support of farm workers. Widespread strikes and demonstrations called for agricultural workers' rights. The poster adve...
Poster

Movie Poster for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed.
Poster

David Fine Freedom Committee

Date: 1976
Description: Poster advertising the David Fine Freedom Committee. David Fine was the youngest of the four men involved in the Sterling Hall bombing at the University of...
Poster

Fight World Famine

Date: 1917
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...
Poster

Farm for Freedom

Date: 1917
Description: Poster text reads: "Farm for Freedom. Young Men of America, Between sixteen and twenty-one years, Earn a Badge of Honor. Join the United States Boy's Worki...
Poster

One of The Thousand Y.M.C.A. Girls in France

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young woman wearing a YMCA uniform. She is holding three books in her left hand, and a mug with steam rising from it ...
Poster

An Army of Poultry Will Help Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: Detailed poster covered in writing. Highlights of poster text reads: "An army of poultry will help win the war. Uncle Sam Says:... Raise more chickens - It...
Poster

An Acre of Roots Will Winter Your Stock

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large root vegetable. Highlights of text the reads: "An acre of roots will winter your stock... Why grow roots?... Why feed roots?... Bi...
Poster

Build a Silo

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large grain silo. Highlights of text reads: "Build a silo... It will pay. Here are eight reasons why:... What crops can be put in the si...
Poster

Just One Extra Litter

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a mother pig with six piglets and rows of pigs at the bottom of the poster. Highlights of the text reads: "Just one ext...
Poster

Women of Maine Are You Helping? Heroic Women of France. We Must Win The War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of three women, in a field, leaning over and pulling an agricultural implement in a field. Text above photograph reads: "Hero...
Poster

War Motors

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with red text that reads: "War Motors. See them at the 6th annual truck and tractor show. February 20 to 23. Union Transfer and Storage Building. Ac...
Poster

Vous aussi faites votre devoir

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting a woman standing and holding a baby and a rifle. She is looking at a man plowing a field. A town is in the background...
Poster

Comité Americain pour les Régions Dévastées de France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a mother, two children, and a grandfather. A woman in white is leading the woman. In the background is a large American flag...

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