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Death of Colonel Ellsworth

Date: 
Description: An artist's representation of the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth at the Marshall House, the first casualty of the Civil War. Lieutenant Francis Brownell ...
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The Soldier's Dream of Home

Date: 1862
Description: "The Soldier's Dream of Home," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored.
Photograph

Fund Raising Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War...
Poster

Buy Extra Bonds for Liberation

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme...
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International Harvester Maintenance Battalion Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Advertising proof illustrating International Harvester's contribution to the war effort through the forming of maintenance battalions to service Internatio...
Print

Everything Changed But The Paint

Date: 1944
Description: Advertisement with color illustrations for the 1943 "prime mover" reads: "1941 Nothing changed but the paint Everything changed but the paint 1943". The po...
Poster

Halt the Hun!

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Third Liberty Loan series. Depicts a German soldier holding a firearm is standing above a crouching woman crad...
Poster

Remember Belgium. Buy Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. Depicts in silhouette a German soldier running and dragging a girl against a b...
Poster

On Ne Passe Pas!

Date: 1918
Description: French wartime poster commemorating the Second Battle of the Marne (1918) and challenging the "white peace," a proposed 1917 French capitulation to Germany...
Poster

Be Ready! Join Now!

Date: 1915
Description: British recruitment poster commissioned by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London. Depicts a silhouette of a British soldier holding a rifle.
Poster

Enlist in the Navy

Date: 1917
Description: Recruitment poster for the United States Navy. Depicts Uncle Sam in a soldier's uniform pointing a gun at the German Kaiser, who is dressed in a crown and ...
Photograph

Back Our Girls Over There

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring a woman in a navy blue uniform working at a switchboard that has the symbol of the Y.W.C.A abpve it. Outside the window behind...
Poster

If I Fail He Dies

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w...
Poster

Every Business Has Three Partners

Date: 1918
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...
Poster

20 at Home to 1 in the Trenches

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon panel that shows a crowd of men dressing a monumental soldier, who is sitting in a chair. The smaller men are bringing his hat, ...
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

Our Three Lines of National Defense

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of a mass of soldiers with a flag and cannon, and behind them a large ship labeled: "USN" [United States Navy], and...
Poster

Go Over The Top With The Tank That Will Win The War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of two soldiers, labeled: "Wage Payer and Wage Earner," standing on top of a tank riding over a trench. The tank is labele...
Poster

U.S. Marines. “Soldiers of the Sea”

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of four Marine corpsmen running across a grassy beach. Two battleships are just off the shore in the background. Poster te...
Poster

All Together!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of sailors from several Allied nations posing standing together. Each sailor has his country's flag beneath him; the count...

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