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Poster

Hey Fellows!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring illustration of a soldier holding a book aloft, and a sailor sitting cross-legged reading a book. Poster text reads: "'Hey Fellows!' Your ...
Poster

"Hunger"

Date: 1917
Description: United States Food Administration World War I poster urging citizens to eat less meat, wheat, fats and sugar in order to help fight starvation in Belgium. ...
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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

War Loan

Date: 1915
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a lion, the symbol of the UK. Text reads: "War Loan. Back the Empire with Your Savings. Invest Now. Apply for Details a...
Poster

YMCA United War Work Campaign

Date: 1918
Description: World War I illustrated poster featuring a portrait of General Pershing. The YMCA logo is at the top left of the poster. Poster includes Pershing quote cab...
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Save a loaf a week — help win the war

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a loaf of bread being sliced by someone using a knife.
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The World Cannot Live Half Slave, Half Free

Date: 1918
Description: Propaganda poster encouraging American involvement in World War I by depicting the Prussian army as enslaving Europe. Includes a map of Europe with the lan...
Poster

Joan of Arc Saved France

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts Joan of Arc. Text reads: "Joan of Arc Saved France. Women of America, Save Your Country. Buy War Savings Stamps. United States Treasury Depa...
Poster

Lest They Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman with a baby tied to her back, standing amid the ruins of some buildings. Poster text reads: Lest They Perish. C...
Poster

Give or We Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman clutching her coat around her and looking nervously to the right. Poster text reads: "Give or We Perish. Americ...
Poster

Let's End It — Quick With Liberty Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman as Columbia holding out her hands to the viewer. Behind her, a city is in flames. Poster text reads: "Let's End...
Poster

Are You 100% American?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a statue of a bald eagle, flanked by American flags and smoking artillery guns. Poster text reads: "Are you 100% Americ...
Poster

Buy Liberty Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a brass colored relief of the profile of Abraham Lincoln, as it appears on a penny. Poster text reads: "Buy Liberty Bon...
Poster

Keep These Off the U.S.A.

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a pair of German boots (with Prussian eagle), which are dripping with blood. Poster text reads: "Keep these off the U.S.A. Buy more LIBERT...
Poster

Victory. Add the Fifth Point

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a woman in shadow (possibly representing Columbia) adding a point to a five-pointed star that is labeled "Victory." Poster text reads: "Vi...
Poster

Come On!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an American soldier standing over the body of a German soldier. The soldier is facing the viewer, clutching his bayonet...
Poster

Mit ihm

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Description: Two hands grasping in foreground. Image of in background Von Hindenburg. Text reads "Mit ihm."
Poster

Fighting In France For Freedom! — Are You Helping at Home?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of a crowd of people in New York City walking in unity to show their support for the war abroad. Text reads, in part: "Fighti...
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

Are You Working?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster text reads: "Are You Working? Your Country Needs You as a Soldier or as a Producer. Get a Job — Stick to It. Milwaukee County Council of Defense."

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