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For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, Care For Her Through the YWCA

Date: 1918
Description: A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW...
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Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Poster

Industrial Safety Shoe Warning Sign

Date: 1921
Description: Industrial safety sign or poster warning factory workers of the dangers of wearing poor shoes at work. The sign's text reads: "Bum Shoe Causes Burn; Ed Gab...
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One Man, One Vote

Date: 
Description: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th...
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Holiday Art Sale

Date: 12 02 1970
Description: Poster advertising the Union Gallery and Crafts Committee Holiday Art Sale, held in the Main Lounge of the Memorial Union. A caricatured Santa is illustrat...
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"Vojandy" (The Camp Followers) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian film "Le Soldatesse." A small photographic cut-out image of a woman's legs, along with an equally small cut-out...
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"Černý tulipán" (The Black Tulip) Film Poster

Date: 1967
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "La tulipe noire." Collage image of a swashbuckler dressed in black and holding a sword while standing in a...
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"Poslední soud" (The Last Judgment) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian-French film "Il giudizio universale." There are two rows of legs wearing high heels with bowler hats next to th...
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"Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenlaufers" (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: German film poster for the British film, "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." Illustrated image of a foot wearing a shoe stomping on the face of s...
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"Professor Hannibal" Film Poster

Date: 1960
Description: German film poster for the Hungarian film, "Hannibál tanár úr." Illustrated image in the foreground of two persons from the waist down, seemingly running, ...
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"Fanny Elssler" Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the film. Illustrated image of ballerina legs, with the feet extended from a large gown, in pointe technique.
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"Meine Witwe ist gefahrlich" (Five Golden Hours) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: German film poster for the Italian-British film. Illustrated black and white image of a man with a moustache wearing a bow tie. He is surrounded by portion...
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"Mister Freedom" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French film. Illustrated image of a man carrying a woman. They are both dressed in red, white, ...
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"Early Works" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Yugoslavian film, "Rani radovi." Illustrated image of a woman wearing only an open coat and boo...
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"The Joke" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Czechoslovakian film, "Žert." Illustrated image of a man walking while a woman kneels behind hi...
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"Matrimonio a la Argentina" (Marriage, Argentine-Style) Film Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of a woman chasing a man in a bedroom while another woman runs out a door. Three people watch, one from a closet, ...
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"Yes, Junior, There Is a Santy Claus"

Date: 
Description: Two creatures, each wearing a red stocking cap, are standing in the foreground. A wagon on the left is holding a bottle popping its cork. In the upper righ...
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Roosevelt and Johnson

Date: 1912
Description: Poster featuring Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate in the 1912 presidential campaign, Hiram Johnson. Both men are wearing suits and eyeglasses and ar...
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Four Years in the Fight

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring women glass blowers working in a factory with large tongs. Two men are standing by the window in the background, one dressed i...
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Are You Working with Schwab?

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of Charles Schwab overseeing men who are working in a shipyard. Text reads: "Charles M. Schwab, Director General of the Emerg...

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