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It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
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International Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for International engines. Includes illustrations of the engines' farm uses, including pumping water, washing clothes, and operating a c...
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McCormick-Deering Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering engines. Includes photographic illustrations of an engine powering a water pump, washing machine, and cement mixer...
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Keep Well to Win!

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a man eating a balanced meal and getting plenty of sleep in order to help win the war. The poster was printed for the Labor-Management Produ...
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Food-For-Freedom World War II Advertising Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester advertising poster promoting the "Food-for-Freedom Program." The poster urges customers to replace worn parts, and service, clean a...
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Canning Poster

Date: 1920
Description: International Harvester poster advertising home canning and offering free books. The sign reads: "Canning Means Saving, Saving Means Money. Ask Your Wife, ...
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Green Lantern Eating Cooperative

Date: 11 27 1970
Description: Poster advertising the Green Lantern Eating Cooperative on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In addition to being an eating cooperative, The Gree...
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Keep It Coming

Date: 1914
Description: United States Food Administration World War I Poster. "Keep It Coming/ We must not only feed our soldiers at the front but the millions of women and childr...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: A Daily Program for Boys and Girls No. 1

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating a "daily program for boys & girls," including a "cold bath," "clean hand, face, teeth...," an insistence on "ventilation in sch...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: Baby's Food, No Substitute Equals Mother's Milk

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster with illustration showing a mother holding her baby with the text "breast fed baby has 15 changes to live compared with the bottle fed baby'...
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Food Wins Victories - Play Square With It

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 3, "Hungry Child." The poster features a smiling soldier feeding a spoonful of steaming peas and carrots to a destitute ...
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Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
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Help Him When You Shop

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 4, "Smiling Grocer." The poster features the neighborhood grocer with an apron and a pencil tucked behind his ear agains...
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Produce. Conserve Share. Play Square! - To Hasten War's End

Date: 1943
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 2, "Market Basket." The poster features a background with farmland on the left and factories on the left. In the upper f...
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Crop Emergency Here!

Date: 1944
Description: Office of War Information Design No. 2, "Crop Emergency." The poster features a newspaper theme. The newspaper title is "The American Appeal." The main art...
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- "To Speed Our Boys Home.. Produce, Conserve. Share. Play Square with Food!"

Date: 1943
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 1, "Woman." The poster features a woman with a service flag or banner with a blue star in the center behind her. A small...
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Add to Your Ration - By Home Canning!

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 5, "Home Canning." The poster features a woman in a checkered apron pouring something from a cooking pan into a jar. ...
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Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn...
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The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers

Date: 1865
Description: "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ...
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"Do Your Bit--Save the Pit"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a drawing of a woman scraping pits from fruit into a barrel.Text reads "Stop. Save Prune pits Plum pits Cherry pits Date seeds Olive pits ...

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