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| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing a blood drive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by the Red Cross. Features a "bloodmobile" as an attraction. |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster illustrating a "daily program for boys & girls," including a "cold bath," "clean hand, face, teeth...," an insistence on "ventilation in sch... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster enumerating "important causes of dullness in children" and exhorting the reader to "find and remove the cause." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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'... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the French film. Illustrated image of a male doctor looking over a male patient who is lying in bed. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster including a cartoon illustration of Uncle Sam pouring medicine into a spoon for two bed-ridden patients, the "Wage Earner" and the "Wage Payer." The... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting a war fund drive in Marathon County, bordered by American flags and logos for the "Marathon County War Fund, Back the Boys," featuring an ... |
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