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World War II Victory Garden Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h...
Photograph

Woman Buying War Bond from Santa Claus

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Woman buying a war bond from Santa Claus, who was helping other Manchester employees wait on crowds of purchasers at the bonds-only sale on the store's mai...
Poster

"I Want You for U.S. Army"

Date: 1917
Description: Uncle Sam recruiting poster that says "I want You for U.S. Army". Poster has three different addresses for nearest recruiting offices.
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 02 09 1864
Description: Abraham Lincoln in one of the famous portraits known as the Brady Profiles.
Photograph

Patriotic Lodge Hall Meeting

Date: 1900
Description: Men gather at lodge hall, probably in Watertown, Wisconsin. American flags are hanging from the light fixtures, draped over tables and on the wall. There i...
Poster

"...For Your Security and Mine!" - Buy and Hold War Bonds

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design, title and number unknown. The poster features the profiles of Uncle Sam, a man, a woman, and a child arranged along the left border and fa...
Poster

"You've Done Your Bit... Now Do Your Best" - Buy More War Bonds

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 23, "Do Your Best." The poster features Uncle Sam standing facing toward a couple with his hand reached out to rest on the man's should...
Poster

Your Job Should Be A War Job

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 5, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...
Poster

Are You in a War Job? ..If Not, See U.S. Employment Service

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 3, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...
Poster

"Man Those Idle Machines!"

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 2, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing his thumb at the people working at machines behind him. The subti...
Print

Season's Greetings, Let's Stamp Out the Dictators!

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with a 10¢ War Stamp Album glued inside. The front of the card shows Uncle Sam's large shoe kicking Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito into space....
Print

The Nation's Binder

Date: 1890
Description: Color advertising cartoon depicting Uncle Sam with arms outstretched over a Deering grain binder. Hybrids of binders by rival manufacturers are depicted on...
Print

National Blower Works Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of National Blower Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturers of "Steam Hot Blast Apparatus." On the left is an Uncle Sam figure pointing to a...
Print

Grand Detour Plow Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of advertising card with an Uncle Sam figure with a text balloon that reads: "Read what people say of the Little Yankee Three Wheel Plow." The back o...
Poster

Uncle Sam Says: "All the Kings in the World Can't Beat my Hand"

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon of a smiling Uncle Sam pointing to a hand of cards, which all feature men and are labeled: "Farmer, Consumer, Banker, Wage Earne...
Poster

The Biggest Gun in the War for Democracy

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon panel depicting Uncle Sam firing a cannon labeled: "American Industry" to send supplies across the Atlantic towards people stand...
Poster

Team Work Will Win the War!

Date: 1918
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...
Poster

You! Enlist Today

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Poster text reads: "YOU! Enlist Today. [Your cou]ntry needs you!"
Poster

Shall we be more tender with our dollars than the lives of our sons

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam reaching for the viewer's hand (or perhaps money), and gesturing behind him to waves of soldiers and airplane...
Poster

Surely You Will Fight for Your King and Country

Date: 1915
Description: British poster with a circular framed portrait of the king dressed in a military uniform, and a red map of the United Kingdom. Text reads: "Surely You Will...

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