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Karl Armstrong for District Attorney

Date: 11 1972
Description: Polemical political poster advocating Karl Armstrong for District Attorney of Wisconsin. Text reads, "We will be free. We see the AMRC blast as more than j...
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...
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

The Shot That Will Win The War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of three men riding on a bomb. The bullet is labeled: "Industrial Co-operation," and the men are Uncle Sam, a Wage ...
Poster

Columbia Calls

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Columbia, personification of the United States, standing on a globe and holding an American flag and a sword. A small p...
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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Soldier's Memorial, The War of 1917

Date: 1918
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company F, Third Wisconsin, 128th Infantry, 32nd Division. Text reads: "Company F [Third Wisconsin], 128th Infantry, 32n...
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They Shall Not Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Columbia, who is brandishing a sword and protecting a young woman sitting beside her holding onto her legs. A flag is w...
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Knights of Columbus Three Million War Fund

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a priest holding a crucifix and looking skyward. The priest is surrounded by kneeling soldiers and sailors, and has his...
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Red Cross Christmas roll call December 16th to 23rd

Date: 1918
Description: Poster showing a figure of Columbia holding a pen and adorned with a flag and sword, and a Red Cross nurse with a scroll, inscribed "Where Columbia sets he...
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Have you answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a Red Cross nurse with a blue and red coat over her shoulders. She is extending her hand, as soldiers are marching in the background with ...
Poster

All Slackers to the Front!

Date: 1917
Description: Hand-drawn poster. At the bottom is a soldier with a pack and a rifle on his back, carrying a US flag, embracing a woman. At the top is a general with the ...
Poster

Side by Side Britannia!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of Uncle Sam arm-in-arm with Britannia. Uncle Sam has a sword, and Britannia holds a shield with the Union Jack and a triton. A...
Poster

L'emprunt de la liberation

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men holding flags of the US, UK, France, and other allied countries over a German man bowed down wearing a white cape and holding a broken sword. ...
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Emprunt de la Defense Nationale

Date: 1915
Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman standing with two children at her feet, and carrying a baby on her shoulder. She is watching as her husband is wavin...
Poster

Pour le triomphe souscrivez à l'emprunt national

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of troops of World War I soldiers marching through the Arc de Triomphe. Soldiers from previous wars are marching down on a clou...
Poster

Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

Date: 1915
Description: Poster with illustrations of a soldier on a battlefield on the left, and a couple taking coins to a bank on the right. At the top center is a flag draped o...
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He did his duty. Will YOU do YOURS?

Date: 1916
Description: Poster with an illustration of a portrait of Lord Roberts of Kandahar with a British flag draped around it, and a wreath at the top. In front of the portra...
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Manifest

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a long, written manifest, framed with a red, white, and blue frame. Also features Czech soldiers running with guns and bayonets on a battl...

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