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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring the insignia for all armies, corps, divisions, and special units of the United States Army during World War I. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a Red Cross insignia in the top center. Text reads: "Are You — a graduate nurse, undergraduate nurse, practical nurse, hospital attendant,... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of a group of men, sailors and soldiers standing in the back of a truck in New York. Man of the men are dressed in suits. Tex... |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German propaganda photograph of a French PoW from West Africa taken at a military hospital in Brussels. The original German caption claimed that during his... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | British poster with a circular framed portrait of the king dressed in a military uniform, and a red map of the United Kingdom. Text reads: "Surely You Will... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | White poster with red and blue text. Text reads: "British Subjects it is your duty to Enlist in the British or Canadian Army. Men are eligible for enlistme... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a portrait of Lord Roberts of Kandahar with a British flag draped around it, and a wreath at the top. In front of the portra... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | British poster with an illustration of a sailor holding a telescope under his left arm while standing on a the deck of a ship looking out at stormy seas to... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of an officer (General Pershing?) on a horse, turning around in the saddle and pointing towards the viewer. Text reads: "You Ar... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German Army recruits, still in civilian clothing, taking a meal break. |
| Date: | 05 28 1917 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of a woman wearing a uniform and holding a rifle. Her helmet has a pin with the caduceus, as was used on the United States Army Medical D... |
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