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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring three smiling men: a soldier, an officer, and a sailor. The officer is in the middle with his arms around the other two, and the War Camp ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster identifying substitute foods for civilians to use, to help the war effort. Substitutes listed are: 1. Wheat - use more corn 2. Meat - use more fish ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a reproduction of a Revolutionary War notice calling for soldiers. In addition to its text, this includes illustrations of soldier's posit... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | United States Department of the Treasury Liberty bonds poster. Depicts a giant German soldier, with blood on his hands and rifle bayonet, leaning over the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of several people, presumably immigrants, standing in the foreground. Behind them is an American flag, and behind it is a ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a Red Cross insignia in the top center. Text reads: "Are You — a graduate nurse, undergraduate nurse, practical nurse, hospital attendant,... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting an image of a personified Big Bertha bomb. The bomb is wearing a German helmet and appears to have paws with large claws. It is being lit ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a large American flag flying over three soldiers in silhouette on the field with artillery. Text reads: "It Protected You, W... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a bald eagle with "The Torch of Liberty," ships on the water and the New York City skyline in the background. Text read... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a man in military uniform pouring coffee for a younger soldier, who is sitting with a rifle across his lap. There is a YMCA sign behind th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with blue text that reads: "Illustrated War Lecture. Wake Up, America! High School Auditorium. Thursday Friday Saturday May 16•17•18 at 8:00 o'clock... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of an officer (General Pershing?) on a horse, turning around in the saddle and pointing towards the viewer. Text reads: "You Ar... |
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