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"Stop the Mad Bomber" Poster

Date: 1972
Description: Poster promoting a rally against Richard Nixon. The header reads, "Stop the Mad Bomber: Confront Nixon at Miami Beach. August 20th-23rd,1972. The Miami Con...
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"S.O.B. Save Our Bartender"

Date: 
Description: Poster with a portrait of a man wearing a captain's style hat with the insignia of a bottle, and eyeglasses, with a beard and moustache, with a noose aroun...
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"One Term" Political Poster

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Description: Drawing of a black outlined bird, with colored feathers, perching on a branch with a wide open mouth. Text reads, "Politics, Nothing to Crow About!" and be...
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Join The Army Air Service. Be An American Eagle!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of an American eagle battling a Prussian eagle. Behind them, airplanes are flying towards an explosion. Poster text reads: "Joi...
Poster

South America. Come Along

Date: 1917
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...
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Fight World Famine

Date: 1917
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...
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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 ...
Poster

Side by Side Britannia!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of Uncle Sam arm-in-arm with Britannia. Uncle Sam has a sword, and Britannia holds a shield with the Union Jack and a triton. A...
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Un dernier effort et on l'aura

Date: 1917
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...
Poster

Exposition des dons Americains

Date: 1916
Description: Poster with text and a border of laurels or garland. On one side of the border is a structure with a bird above it (dove?). The other side features a chain...
Poster

President Wilson's Great Message

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of President Wilson, with his address to Congress framed by an eagle, and red, white, and blue bunting. Text reads, in part: ...
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Anti-Communist Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Poster depicting a Communist hammer and sickle symbol piercing a dove. Distributed by Young Americans for Freedom in support of war in Vietnam.

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