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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of World War I posters, circa 1914-circa 1918
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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting soldiers carrying rifles and bayonets leaning forward like they're running to battle. Text reads: "Yours not to do and die — yours but to ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster depicts a man and a girl in a trench handing a box of cartridges and a grenade up to an armed soldier on the front line. Text reads: "L'emprunt des ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting three soldiers resting on a battlefield. One soldier is smoking a pipe, one soldier is writing a letter, and the third soldier is looking ... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting American soldiers climbing up a rock. The rock is topped by an Imperial eagle and the symbol of the iron cross. The bird's claws and the c... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting a woman standing and holding a baby and a rifle. She is looking at a man plowing a field. A town is in the background... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of Gen. Ferdinand Foch overseeing French soldiers as they march forward on a battlefield. Text reads: "Pour le dernier quart d'... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting an elevated view of a downed plane tail up and floating in the sea with survivors standing on top of it. A seaplane i... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a woman standing and holding in her arms a small child wearing a nightgown. They are next to a bed with a doll resting on th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Poster with illustrations of a soldier on a battlefield on the left, and a couple taking coins to a bank on the right. At the top center is a flag draped o... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a mother, two children, and a grandfather. A woman in white is leading the woman. In the background is a large American flag... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting a grinning German soldier escorting a group of unhappy looking people carrying luggage. In the background are bombed ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of two French women, one from Alsace and one from Lorraine, wearing traditional costumes and making floral wreaths. A church bu... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting Cardinal Mercier carrying a staff surrounded by suffering people. Text reads: "Le Cardinal Mercier Protège la Belgique." A stamp on the p... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Men and women bringing money to the feet of La Marseillaise and Marianne. A cherub or child on the left has a helmet and sword. A little girl is emptying a... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting a French soldier hugging a child, and a woman nursing a baby. Text reads "3e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Souscri... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting Marianne standing on a large orb surrounded by flags. On the left is a man holding a torch, and a lion. Text reads: "... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a young soldier in uniform climbing up a trench and holding his weapon while on a battlefield. Text reads: "4e Emprunt Natio... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a woman holding a baby in her arms being presented a house by a woman on the American Committee for the Devastated Regions o... |
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