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| 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: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 6, "Life Raft." The poster features a man in uniform pulling a limp man out of the water and into a life raft. The su... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 2, "Policeman." The poster features a police officer with cars passing behind him. The subtitle below the main captio... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster including two cartoon panels. In the first on the left, a workman smoking a cigarette and with his coat over his arm is trying to shake hands with a... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel in which a man with a bowler hat is looking on from a submarine, labeled: "U Agitator," as it fires a torpedo labeled: "St... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon illustration showing two different bridges. The first, labeled: "The Bridge of Ships," shows several large ships forming a bridg... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of several people, presumably immigrants, standing in the foreground. Behind them is an American flag, and behind it is a ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a locomotive speeding along railroad tracks with airplanes flying overhead. The airplanes have the markings associated with American warpl... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a bald eagle with "The Torch of Liberty," ships on the water and the New York City skyline in the background. Text read... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with red text overlaying illustrations in blue. The top left illustration is of soldiers with cannons on battlefront. At the bottom right is an illu... |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a Prussian leader looking back in fear at a large locomotive, with a US seal on the front, heading towards him. Text re... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of the town of Château-Thierry, France from the bank of the Marne River, with two small boats in the foreground. A broken bridg... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a road with a view through an archway towards a town, with rubble in the foreground on the left. There are pedestrians and a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a soldier sitting on old military equipment among the stones of a ruined building on a hill overlooking a picturesque town, ... |
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