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| Description: | Poster recruiting student nurses to aid in the war effort. Depicts a young woman, in a nurse's uniform, with her right hand raised to her heart. Behind her... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a man in military uniform pouring coffee for a younger soldier, who is sitting with a rifle across his lap. There is a YMCA sign behind th... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | United States Food Administration World War I poster urging citizens to eat less meat, wheat, fats and sugar in order to help fight starvation in Belgium. ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster in Polish with an illustration of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military leader who fought with the Americans during the Revolutionary War. This... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Charcoal drawing illustration of a soldier in a trench, holding a cup. Other soldiers are behind him. Text reads: "Feed a Fighter. Eat only what you need —... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with cartoon depicting three men armed with bayoneted rifles, standing in front of a pillar, with factory buildings in the background. The men are w... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoons under the headline. The cartoon on the left is titled: "Snowed Under," and displays a truck labeled American Indu$trie$ stalled in... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoons under the headline. The cartoon on the left shows a man is nailing a sign to a padlocked door, which is labeled "Opportunity." The... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first, at top left, a man in a suit has his hand on the shoulder of a man in overalls and is asking, "Do you find th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first, silhouetted figures are working in the yard in front of a large house with a public school and a factory with... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, a man wearing a hat and smoking a cigar is carrying a sack labeled "Agitator." He is demanding of a... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, an oversized man is getting ready to swing a sledgehammer, which is labeled "Misunderstanding," get... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first panel on the left, a man is sing at a desk with a roll labeled "Plans" and saying to another man, who is stand... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the panel on the left, a man in a military uniform, labeled "General Business," is forced to dance by a hand firing a gu... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster including two cartoon panels. In the first on the left, a workman smoking a cigarette and with his coat over his arm is trying to shake hands with a... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster including two cartoon panels. In the first, labeled: "10 A.M.," several silhouetted men are walking out of a factory. A cartoon blackbird is comment... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel showing a man with a sledgehammer standing on a terrace labeled: "American Industries." At his feet is a piece of paper ti... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel in which Uncle Sam is riding on a wagon pulled by two horses, with text that reads "— Over Here —, and on the right near s... |
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