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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster encouraging citizens to salvage their scrap metals for the war. Features an illustration of a scrap metal "man" hitch-hiking a ride from... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the use of scrap metal for war materials. Features illustrations of guns, tanks, ships and other armaments that could be produced using sc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Includes an illustration of a farmer and International Harvester dealer dumping a... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen... |
| Date: | 09 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Bernhard "Bernie" Mautz, president, general manager, and founder of the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, at his desk. Mr. Mautz was chairman of Madison's 1... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster used in International Harvester factories used to promote work attendance during wartime. The poster features an illustration... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of an illustrated poster featuring uniformed International Harvester Company servicemen and women marching in a procession away from fact... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Men and women look at an International Harvester Company display featuring illustrations, posters, and machinery parts used in wartime work. The text in th... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Colonel I. Sarayev, Russian military attache of the Russian Embassy, discusses Harvester war products with W.O. Maxwell of the Consumer Relations Departmen... |
| Date: | 02 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the crowd and exhibits at the opening night of the First National Labor-Management Production Exposition. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles E. Wilson, Executive Vice Chairman of the War Production Board and formerly president of General Electric Company, and Lieutenant General William S... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of the inside of a shipping manufacturer, with men working near a ship in drydock. Text at bottom reads: "On The Job For V... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 10, "Girl War Worker." The poster features a young woman wearing overalls and protective gloves with her hair bound back... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding... |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 12, "Whistle." The poster features a whistle blowing and emitting smoke with the silhouette of a factory in the backgrou... |
| 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: | 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 5, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "... |
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