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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of two soldiers looking through the slits in a field gun shield. The breech of the cannon is open. Poster text reads: "Help F... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of two sailors enjoying themselves in a colorful (and apparently South American) village. One sailor is riding a llama, an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of four sailors operating a ship's cannon. Two of the sailors are shirtless and are loading a shell into the breech. Anoth... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of sailors from several Allied nations posing standing together. Each sailor has his country's flag beneath him; the count... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a young women in a naval dress uniform with her hands in her pockets, looking at the viewer. Poster text reads: "I W... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of men signing paperwork in an office with naval recruitment posters. In a "dream" bubble, sailors are sighting and adjusting... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a line of men in civilian clothing heading toward a battleship. In front of them are sailors in naval uniforms, who are... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of three sailors riding an elephant, while sailors and Indians stand nearby. In the background is a battleship. Poster tex... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a boy operating a plow, in silhouette. In the background, soldiers are operating an artillery piece among the rubble of... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a boy battling a kettle of vultures. The boy is holding a pitchfork in one hand and making a fist with the other. Poste... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster text reads: "Farm for Freedom. Young Men of America, Between sixteen and twenty-one years, Earn a Badge of Honor. Join the United States Boy's Worki... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Poster text reads: "YOU! Enlist Today. [Your cou]ntry needs you!" |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of soldiers lined up, planes flying overhead, a cavalry-mounted officer on horseback, and a cannon nearby. Poster text rea... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a woman in a National League for Woman's Service uniform with a cape, riding a horse and carrying an American flag. Aro... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier riding down a hill on horseback. His rifle is slung over his shoulder, and he is carrying the Hussite war fla... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a Czechoslovak soldier throttling a German soldier at night. They are illuminated by a flare, or perhaps a tracer round... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a man with a musket and a handaxe charging at three fleeing soldiers, while red lightning flashes from dark storm cloud... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a a soldier holding his "Honorable Discharge" papers and reaching for the handle of a door. The door has a sign that re... |
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