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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a large root vegetable. Highlights of text the reads: "An acre of roots will winter your stock... Why grow roots?... Why feed roots?... Bi... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a large grain silo. Highlights of text reads: "Build a silo... It will pay. Here are eight reasons why:... What crops can be put in the si... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a mother pig with six piglets and rows of pigs at the bottom of the poster. Highlights of the text reads: "Just one ext... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of a crowd of people in New York City walking in unity to show their support for the war abroad. Text reads, in part: "Fighti... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of soldiers in an English town hustling back to their posts. Some of the soldiers are operating long ranged guns. Text reads,... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a man wearing a kilt with his arm in a sling. Soldiers are standing around him. There is a map and a broken window in t... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | This poster features an image of a large crowd of people watching a few men speaking on Wall Street. One man, Charles Brickley, is kicking a pigskin over t... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of three women, in a field, leaning over and pulling an agricultural implement in a field. Text above photograph reads: "Hero... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster text reads: "Are You Working? Your Country Needs You as a Soldier or as a Producer. Get a Job — Stick to It. Milwaukee County Council of Defense." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an image of a child wrapping her arms around woman's neck. Text on left reads: "150,000 Children under the age of 6 die every year from pr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Handmade poster featuring a drawing of a person wearing a large flower on top of their head, and a dress made of grass. The person is blowing through the s... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring buildings, including a clock tower. Text reads: Alf Heidelberg: Charity is Neutral. German-Austrian Hungarian Bazaar. Auditorium. March 2n... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster featuring a woman holding a large stem with flowers draped over her head. She is wearing a hat and dress, as well as wrapped fabric that ... |
| 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 text inside red and blue borders. It is a copy of an executive order by Julius C. Gunter, Governor of Colorado. Text reads, in part: "It is you... |
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