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| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | "The Soldier's Dream of Home," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster produced by the Labor Management Production Drive Committee urging people to share automobile rides. The text on the poster r... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in... |
| 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: | 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 24, "Happy Family." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a naval battle commencing on stormy waters in shades of ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Department of Agriculture Design No. 1, "Forest Fire." The poster features a forest fire blazing around a lone country house, with smoke billowing into the... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | National Housing Agency Design No. 1, "Welcome Mat." The poster features a red, white, and blue welcome mat on a doorstep. In the bottom right corner the a... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 5, "Home Canning." The poster features a woman in a checkered apron pouring something from a cooking pan into a jar. ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof illustrating International Harvester's contribution to the war effort through the forming of maintenance battalions to service Internatio... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I poster depicting a young nurse extending out her right hand. In the background, wolves are approaching the front porch of a house, and howling ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring a young woman sitting in a chair knitting. The symbol of the Red Cross is in the upper left corner. The poster reads: "You can... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of a group of men in suits sitting on benches and looking at a man in a dress uniform, who has his arms crossed. Poster text ... |
| Date: | 05 1918 |
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| Description: | An exhibit inside a building displaying examples of how to make meals for "a patriot's table," as well as the relative value of different foods. A handmade... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Posters featuring a photograph of a female nurse looking out of a window. Two empty hospital beds with white covers and a chair is in the room behind her. ... |
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