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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Albert Kaepernick Jr.'s McCormick-Deering farm equipment dealership. A poster in the front window reads: "Throw your scrap into the fight!". |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | United States Food Administration World War I Poster. "Keep It Coming/ We must not only feed our soldiers at the front but the millions of women and childr... |
| 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: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
| 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of a cargo ship and Army truck set against that... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of refugees moving along a ruined street; one woman is wearing a nun's habit. Text reads: "They cannot fight & raise food at th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a team of two horses drawing a coal wagon, with a man in the back of the tipped wagon unloading coal with a shovel. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a bird's-eye view of a large bald eagle flying over a convoy of ships, which are headed towards a fire or explosion over the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a man riveting a ship in a shipyard. Text at bottom reads: "United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation." |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a mechanic standing and waving to a silhouette of an airplane taking off; in the background several more silhouetted airplan... |
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