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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...
Poster

Build a Silo

Date: 06 1917
Description: Poster issued by the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin to persuade Wisconsin farmers of the value of a silo. Farmers were par...
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The Navy and the Road to France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of sailors smiling and waving their caps from the back of a truck marked U.S. Navy. Poster text reads: "THE NAVY AND THE ROAD...
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Where the Money Goes [Rear]

Date: 1917
Description: Rear side of double-sided poster showing what resources the military purchases with Liberty Bonds. Uses text only to explain the costs involved. Sections l...
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Shall we be more tender with our dollars than the lives of our sons

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam reaching for the viewer's hand (or perhaps money), and gesturing behind him to waves of soldiers and airplane...
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Our Daddy is Fighting at the Front for You

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an image of a boy and girl standing together. The boy is wearing a sailor suit and holding an American flag. Poster text reads: "Our Daddy...
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Emprunt de la Défense Nationale - eux aussi! Font leur devoir

Date: 1915
Description: Poster with an illustration of a wounded soldier pointing back to a line of civilians standing in front of a cashier's window. At the top of the poster is ...
Poster

Francais souscrivez au Deuxieme Emprunt de la Defense Nationale

Date: 1916
Description: Poster with an illustration of flags at the top with the words: "Honneur et Patrie" on them. At the bottom of the poster is a cottage and a church flanked ...
Poster

On Ne Passe Pas!

Date: 1918
Description: French wartime poster commemorating the Second Battle of the Marne (1918) and challenging the "white peace," a proposed 1917 French capitulation to Germany...
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War and Business

Date: 1918
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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If you can't go across with a gun, come across with your part of the Red Cross war fund

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicts wounded man in a sling gesturing to a red cross sign. Woman with a scarf on her head and small boy also shown. Broken wagon wheel, gun with ...
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Dane County's Big Hoover Food Celebration

Date: 1917
Description: Poster text reads: "Dane County's Big Hoover Food Celebration. Capitol Building and Grounds. Friday Eve., Aug. 17. 6 P.M. Picnic lunch on the Capitol Groun...
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Keep 'em going!

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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...
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Follow Your Mates. Enlist.

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicting a steam ship being pulled to sea by a tug boat. Smoke is billowing from both boats. Crowds of people are waving from the ship and the dock...
Poster

Over There!

Date: 1917
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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Don't Blame It All On The War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster includes a cartoon panel showing a scale. On one side, which is labeled: "Price to Consumer," are weights labeled: "Supply, Demand, Quality, and Was...
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Four U.S. Marine Corpsmen with a U.S. Flag, Marine Corps Flag

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of four Marine corpsmen on a beach, with one Marine holding an American flag and another Marine a Marines flag. The other ...
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Journee du Poilu. Organisée par le Parlement

Date: 1915
Description: Poster depicting a young boy and girl. The girl is wearing a red cross uniform and is carrying a collection cup. The boy has a soldier-like outfit with a c...
Poster

Pour la France Versez Votre or L'Or Combat Pour La Victoire

Date: 1915
Description: Poster with an illustration of a large gold French coin, with the image French rooster and the words: "Liberte • Egalite • Fraternite 1915," crushing a Ger...

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