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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with red and white text that reads: "Auditorium Plankinton Hall Sunday Night Mr. 17 Benefit Performance. Co. L. 340th Infantry. Milwaukee's Own 10 B... |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a Prussian leader looking back in fear at a large locomotive, with a US seal on the front, heading towards him. Text re... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster. At the bottom is a soldier with a pack and a rifle on his back, carrying a US flag, embracing a woman. At the top is a general with the ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with text in German. Reads, in part: "Warum Wir Krieg Führen. (Auf anordnung der Minnesotaer kommission fur offentliche sicherheit veroffentlieht.)"... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with blue text that reads: "Illustrated War Lecture. Wake Up, America! High School Auditorium. Thursday Friday Saturday May 16•17•18 at 8:00 o'clock... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with red text that reads: "War Motors. See them at the 6th annual truck and tractor show. February 20 to 23. Union Transfer and Storage Building. Ac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a map of "Central Europe" and its annexes in the Near East (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey), territory occupied or controlled ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of an eagle dropping a laurel wreath from its talons onto the head of a seated lion. Poster text reads: "America's tribute... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a woman representing the goddess Columbia, who represents America, and two children, presenting a laurel wreath to a wo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a steam ship being pulled to sea by a tug boat. Smoke is billowing from both boats. Crowds of people are waving from the ship and the dock... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster with red text on white. Text reads: "Jack Canuck. 24 Pages. Jauary 29th 1916. Price 5 cents. How to get rid of the silk-socked slacker!" |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster depicts First Nations man holding a dollar bill and two coins in one hand and a letter in the other hand written in his language. A paper with the t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of factory buildings and manufacturing equipment. Text reads: "Nothing doing — without Victory Bonds." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting soldiers carrying rifles and bayonets leaning forward like they're running to battle. Text reads: "Yours not to do and die — yours but to ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a young boy and girl. The girl is wearing a red cross uniform and is carrying a collection cup. The boy has a soldier-like outfit with a c... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster depicts a man and a girl in a trench handing a box of cartridges and a grenade up to an armed soldier on the front line. Text reads: "L'emprunt des ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men holding flags of the US, UK, France, and other allied countries over a German man bowed down wearing a white cape and holding a broken sword. ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a large gold French coin, with the image French rooster and the words: "Liberte • Egalite • Fraternite 1915," crushing a Ger... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting three soldiers resting on a battlefield. One soldier is smoking a pipe, one soldier is writing a letter, and the third soldier is looking ... |
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