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Industrial Health Influenza Sign

Date: 1918
Description: Industrial Health and Safety sign or poster informing factory workers of the symptoms and prevention of "flu," or influenza. The sign reads: "The 'Flu' Is ...
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Warning Against Alcohol

Date: 1921
Description: Industrial health and safety sign or poster warning against the dangers of drinking mixtures with alcohol. The sign reads: "Warning; Do not drink any mixtu...
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All-Campus Blood Drive Poster

Date: 03 1971
Description: Poster announcing a blood drive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by the Red Cross. Features a "bloodmobile" as an attraction.
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Repeal All Anti-Abortion Laws

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster advocating for the repeal of all anti-abortion laws, and supporting Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley for President and Vice President of the United S...
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Wanted: 25,000 Student Nurses

Date: 
Description: Poster recruiting student nurses to aid in the war effort. Depicts a young woman, in a nurse's uniform, with her right hand raised to her heart. Behind her...
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The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
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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: A Daily Program for Boys and Girls No. 2

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating a "Daily Program for Boys & Girls," including "brush teeth, walk slowly to school," "clean up for supper" and "no late hours."
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WLA Exhibit Poster: Don't Whip the Dull Child!

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster enumerating "important causes of dullness in children" and exhorting the reader to "find and remove the cause."
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WLA Exhibit Poster: Open Air Schools

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: The Medical Inspection of School Children

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ...
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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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Help Him Get Well - Buy Bonds

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design, title and number unknown. The poster features a bleeding soldier being carried off a battlefield on a stretcher by four other soldiers.
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Your Job Is Important Too

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 8, "The Nurse." The poster features a nurse tending to a fallen soldier. The subtitle at the bottom of the poster rea...
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The More You Help, the Quicker I'll be Back

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 9, "The Marine." The poster features a wounded marine sitting with a gun held in one hand, framed against a forest ba...
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Military Memorial Poster

Date: 
Description: Commemorative poster honoring duties of the States and those that fought and lead the war.
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"Leta odvahy a zrady" (Evidence) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Hungarian film "Ha egyszer húsz év múlva." Photographic image in shades of blue, except for part of a man's face. The m...
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"Dr. Knock" Film Poster

Date: 1951
Description: German film poster for the French film. Illustrated image of a male doctor looking over a male patient who is lying in bed.
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Join American Red Cross Poster

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster depicting a young nurse extending out her right hand. In the background, wolves are approaching the front porch of a house, and howling ...
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If I Fail He Dies

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w...

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