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World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1943
Description: Poster for International Harvester dealerships promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Features caricatures of Adolf Hitler and ...
Poster

Your Job Is Your Gun

Date: 1942
Description: Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machin...
Poster

Your Tools Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a factory worker hitting a caricature of Adolf Hitler on the head with a tool. Includes the text: "Your tools are weapons... take care of th...
Poster

Both Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a tank and a tractor, with the text: "Both are weapons our farm and fighting forces depend on you." The poster was printed for the Labor-Man...
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Buy Extra Bonds for Liberation

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme...
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Let 'Em Have It! - Let's All Back the Attack!

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 34, "Let Em' Have It." The poster features a soldier preparing to throw a grenade over barbed wire into a burning field. In the bottom ...
Poster

War Bonds in Action!

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 31, "Tanks in Action." The poster features tanks and soldiers pressing forward in a battle scene.
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Save at Least 10% in War Bonds

Date: 1942
Description: Treasury Design No. 16, "Army Anti-Aircraft." The poster features four soldiers operating anti-aircraft artillery. In the bottom right corner it reads: "At...
Poster

Save at Least 10% in War Bonds

Date: 1942
Description: Treasury Design No. 15, "Navy Anti-Aircraft." The poster features four sailors operating anti-aircraft artillery. In the bottom left corner it reads: "At l...
Poster

Invest at Least 10% in War Bonds

Date: 1942
Description: Treasury Design No. 14, "Merchant Marine." The poster features four sailors operating heavy ship artillery. In the bottom right corner it reads: "At least ...
Poster

We Can't Do It All

Date: 1943
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...
Poster

"Victory is a Question of Stamina"

Date: 1917
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 ...
Poster

Halt the Hun!

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Third Liberty Loan series. Depicts a German soldier holding a firearm is standing above a crouching woman crad...
Poster

Beat Back The Hun with Liberty Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: United States Department of the Treasury Liberty bonds poster. Depicts a giant German soldier, with blood on his hands and rifle bayonet, leaning over the ...
Poster

Souvenez-Vous!

Date: 10 1917
Description: Poster commissioned by the Rememberance League for an October, 1917, exhibition on German war crimes in France. Poster image shows a drawing of a German so...
Poster

If I Fail He Dies

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w...
Poster

Už Slovensko Vstáva

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier standing on a hill and raising his bayonetted rifle, and another soldier moving downhill in the right foregro...
Poster

Boh do Krivdy Hromom

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man with a musket and a handaxe charging at three fleeing soldiers, while red lightning flashes from dark storm cloud...
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Soldier's Memorial, The War of 1917

Date: 1918
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company F, Third Wisconsin, 128th Infantry, 32nd Division. Text reads: "Company F [Third Wisconsin], 128th Infantry, 32n...
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Come On!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an American soldier standing over the body of a German soldier. The soldier is facing the viewer, clutching his bayonet...

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