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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 7, "We Can't Do It All." The poster features a soldier adjusting his headgear over a large artillery gun. The subtitl... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 1, untitled. The poster features a businessman, wearing a white helmet with the Civilian Defense logo, and a small gi... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 2, "Policeman." The poster features a police officer with cars passing behind him. The subtitle below the main captio... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 3, Untitled. The poster features a woman with her face buried in her arms, clutching a letter in one hand. The subtit... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | United States Food Administration poster depicting a woman holding a crying infant on her shoulder with one arm, and her other arm around a young girl who ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I United States Food Administration poster showing two soldiers in full gear running through snow with bayonets drawn. Text reads, "Victory is a ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | United States Food Administration World War I poster encouraging children to conserve wheat for soldiers and not to waste food. There is an image of a youn... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | United States Food Administration World War I poster urging citizens to eat less meat, wheat, fats and sugar in order to help fight starvation in Belgium. ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
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| Description: | A layout of caricatures and cartoons of a "Comicalities of the War for the Union". |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two girls mixing food in a bowl while preparing lunch at Sedan Prairie School. A poster reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds" is on the blackboard behind them, and ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof illustrating International Harvester's contribution to the war effort through the forming of maintenance battalions to service Internatio... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | War Savings Stamps poster featuring an eagle crushing enemy planes. At the top of the poster is written: "Keep Him Free" and at the bottom: "Buy War Saving... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | At the top of the image, a hand pours fat from a skillet into a explosion of thirteen bombs flying towards the viewer. Text at top reads, "Save waste fats ... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Richard Bosold, a member of the Boy Scout Troop 16 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic school, delivers one of the civil defense posters to Robert Schmitz, gener... |
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