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Have you answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a Red Cross nurse with a blue and red coat over her shoulders. She is extending her hand, as soldiers are marching in the background with ...
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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

Give More to the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Poster has red cross logo in all four corners. Text reads "Give more to the Red Cross. The boys who risk their lives to protect you, need the protection yo...
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Motherless, Fatherless, Starving

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman wearing clothing with the Red Cross insignia on it. She is standing in the middle of a crowd of children. Anoth...
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20,000 Tons of Clothing

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with red and blue lettering. Text reads: "20,000 Tons of Clothing. Desperately Needed by Germany's Victims in Belgium and Northern France. Germany W...
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Polish Victims' Relief Fund

Date: 1915
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of people outside of a bombed out town, looking up at a glowing image of Marian, Our Lady of Czenstochowa. Clouds frame th...
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Women's Institute Canning and Preserving, Let Nothing Go to Waste

Date: 1917
Description: Text poster (typed and handwritten) reads: "Women's Institute Canning and Preserving. Let Nothing Go to Waste. Save Vegetables, Fruits and Left-Overs. Subj...
Poster

Dane County's Big Hoover Food Celebration

Date: 1917
Description: Poster text reads: "Dane County's Big Hoover Food Celebration. Capitol Building and Grounds. Friday Eve., Aug. 17. 6 P.M. Picnic lunch on the Capitol Groun...
Poster

Cut a Cord. Coal Will Be Scarce Next Winter

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with blue and red text. Text reads: "Cut-A-Cord. Wisconsin must cut more wood for next winter's fuel. Coal is scarce and getting scarcer. More and m...
Poster

An Army of Poultry Will Help Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: Detailed poster covered in writing. Highlights of poster text reads: "An army of poultry will help win the war. Uncle Sam Says:... Raise more chickens - It...
Poster

Help Supply Your Own Table

Date: 1917
Description: Detailed poster covered in writing. Highlights of poster text reads: "Help supply your own table. Mr. Town 'Lotter'! - ... Plan first before you plant... A...
Poster

An Acre of Roots Will Winter Your Stock

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large root vegetable. Highlights of text the reads: "An acre of roots will winter your stock... Why grow roots?... Why feed roots?... Bi...
Poster

Build a Silo

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large grain silo. Highlights of text reads: "Build a silo... It will pay. Here are eight reasons why:... What crops can be put in the si...
Poster

Just One Extra Litter

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a mother pig with six piglets and rows of pigs at the bottom of the poster. Highlights of the text reads: "Just one ext...
Poster

Remember The Boys In France! — Write Them Often

Date: 1918
Description: This poster features an image of a large crowd of people watching a few men speaking on Wall Street. One man, Charles Brickley, is kicking a pigskin over t...
Poster

Tsingtau Orchestra

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ...
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Charity Bazaar for the Benefit of War Sufferers

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ...
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Spring Fantasie

Date: 1918
Description: Handmade poster featuring a drawing of a person wearing a large flower on top of their head, and a dress made of grass. The person is blowing through the s...
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Alf: Deidelberg: Charity is Neutral

Date: 1916
Description: Poster featuring buildings, including a clock tower. Text reads: Alf Heidelberg: Charity is Neutral. German-Austrian Hungarian Bazaar. Auditorium. March 2n...
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Spring Fantasie War Orphan Benefit

Date: 1918
Description: Hand-drawn poster featuring a woman holding a large stem with flowers draped over her head. She is wearing a hat and dress, as well as wrapped fabric that ...

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