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Poster

America's Gift to France

Date: 1920
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman representing the goddess Columbia, who represents America, and two children, presenting a laurel wreath to a wo...
Poster

The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with two illustrations of farmers plowing fields with horse-drawn plows. Text reads, in part: "The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye, More...
Photograph

Soldiers on a World War I Recruiting Drive

Date: 1917
Description: World War I soldiers standing in front and on the back of an International truck with a recruiting poster.
Poster

Oh, Boy! That's the Girl!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young man in uniform, holding a partially eaten donut, gesturing behind him towards a young woman in uniform carrying...
Poster

Le Beau Régiment (No. 1)

Date: 1914
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting rows of German soldiers marching forward. One officer is sitting on a toy horse on wheels that is being pulled by a s...
Poster

Let Us Highly Resolve That These Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain

Date: 1918
Description: Poster memorializing the American casualties of the sinking of the Tuscania. Included are four photographs from the funerary procession. These are t...
Poster

Kosciuszko, Pulawski, walczyli o wolnosc w Ameryce

Date: 1917
Description: Poster in Polish with an illustration of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military leader who fought with the Americans during the Revolutionary War. This...
Poster

Almanaque de la Guerra 1919

Date: 1919
Description: Poster depicting a soldier holding a rifle with a bayonet. A fallen soldier lies next to him. A plane flies above. Smoke rising in the distance and from so...
Poster

Wählt unsern Besten

Date: 1932
Description: German re-election poster with a portrait of Paul von Hindenburg. Text reads: "Wählt unsern Besten." Von Hindenburg was a German field-marshal and state...
Poster

All They Ask Is Your Old Clothes

Date: 1918
Description: Poster shows two open hands in front of the burning remains of a city across the water. Text reads "All They Ask Is Your Old Clothes. Send everything you c...
Poster

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...
Poster

Teamwork Wins

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of several men working in a shipyard. In the background is an American flag. The text at the bottom reads: "United States Ship...
Poster

U.S. Marines

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of two marine corpsmen on a shoreline. One Marine is standing and signaling with a signal flag to two battleships just off...
Poster

20,000 Tons of Clothing

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with red and blue lettering. Text reads: "20,000 Tons of Clothing. Desperately Needed by Germany's Victims in Belgium and Northern France. Germany W...
Poster

Polish Victims' Relief Fund

Date: 1915
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of people outside of a bombed out town, looking up at a glowing image of Marian, Our Lady of Czenstochowa. Clouds frame th...
Poster

Cathédrale de Reims

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of the ruins of the Cathédrale de Reims. A ghost image of the undamaged cathedral is in the background. Red poppy flowers are g...
Poster

The War Of 1917. Dedicated To The Brave Men Who Answered The Nation's Call.

Date: 1917
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company 6, First Wisconsin Infantry, who died during the war. Text reads: "Company 6, First Wisconsin Infantry . . . Bor...
Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
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...
Poster

An Acre of Roots Will Winter Your Stock

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large root vegetable. Highlights of text the reads: "An acre of roots will winter your stock... Why grow roots?... Why feed roots?... Bi...

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