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Join the Air Service and Serve in France. Do It Now

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of an airplane with French markings flying in the sky. Two soldiers are in the foreground, one with binoculars, are looking off...
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Can You Drive A Car? Will You Drive One In France? Immediate Service At The Front! American Field Service

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of Columbia, personification of the United States, standing at the rear of an ambulance. She is blocking a ragged skeleton (the...
Poster

British Blood Calls British Blood!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of soldiers with bayonetted rifles charging, while an officer is waving a pistol. Above the officer a British flag is rais...
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The Father of Our Country Appealed For Soldiers as Follows

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a reproduction of a Revolutionary War notice calling for soldiers. In addition to its text, this includes illustrations of soldier's posit...
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Be Up-To-Date = Be A U.S. Marine

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier with his gear, adjusting his helmet while standing behind sandbags. On his belt is a gas mask. Poster text re...
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If You Want To Fight! Join The Marines

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman in a Marines dress uniform. Behind her, several soldiers are gathering, and holding an American flag and a Mari...
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Ruth Law Wants to Fly With U.S. Marines

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of a woman in a flight suit, sitting in an airplane. She is surrounded by four men standing wearing dress uniforms, one of wh...
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These Knowing Devil Dogs at Training Camp Do Know

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of a group of Marine recruits posing with their rifles. Some are holding signs that read: "IF YOU DONT [sic] KNOW YOU GET KIL...
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Help Fill This Breech! Join the U.S. Marines!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of two soldiers looking through the slits in a field gun shield. The breech of the cannon is open. Poster text reads: "Help F...
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Farm to Win "Over There"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a boy operating a plow, in silhouette. In the background, soldiers are operating an artillery piece among the rubble of...
Poster

You Must Go Soon Why Not Now?

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of soldiers lined up, planes flying overhead, a cavalry-mounted officer on horseback, and a cannon nearby. Poster text rea...
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Czechoslovaks! Join Our Free Colors!

Date: 1918
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...
Poster

Kdo Jste Bozí Bojovníci

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier riding down a hill on horseback. His rifle is slung over his shoulder, and he is carrying the Hussite war fla...
Poster

Za Naši Samostatnost!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a Czechoslovak soldier throttling a German soldier at night. They are illuminated by a flare, or perhaps a tracer round...
Poster

Už Slovensko Vstáva

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier standing on a hill and raising his bayonetted rifle, and another soldier moving downhill in the right foregro...
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Boh do Krivdy Hromom

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man with a musket and a handaxe charging at three fleeing soldiers, while red lightning flashes from dark storm cloud...
Poster

Jobs for Fighters

Date: 1919
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a a soldier holding his "Honorable Discharge" papers and reaching for the handle of a door. The door has a sign that re...
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Nelson R. De La Ronde Memorial

Date: 1919
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Columbia as a woman holding a piece of paper and knighting a kneeling soldier. Behind her is a large American flag, and...
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The War Of 1917. Dedicated To The Brave Men Who Answered The Nation's Call.

Date: 1917
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company 6, First Wisconsin Infantry, who died during the war. Text reads: "Company 6, First Wisconsin Infantry . . . Bor...
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Soldier's Memorial, The War of 1917. Company A [First and Third Wisconsin], 128th Infantry, [National Guard], United States Army

Date: 1918
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company A, First and Third Wisconsin, 128th Infantry. Poster includes a banner with the Statue of Liberty between a sold...

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