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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 25, "Blue Prints." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is an explosive battle scene in shades of dark blue. On the ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 2, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing his thumb at the people working at machines behind him. The subti... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of Naval officers loading a cannon above an ill... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of War Information poster, with an illustration of a woman wearing a protective headwrap operating a machine. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of several men working in a shipyard. In the background is an American flag. The text at the bottom reads: "United States Ship... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a man riveting a ship in a shipyard. Text at bottom reads: "United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first, at top left, a man in a suit has his hand on the shoulder of a man in overalls and is asking, "Do you find th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first panel on the left, a man is sing at a desk with a roll labeled "Plans" and saying to another man, who is stand... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster including two cartoon panels. In the first on the left, titled "The Bench Worker in the Office," a seated man in a suit is saying to a man standing ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a mechanic standing and waving to a silhouette of an airplane taking off; in the background several more silhouetted airplan... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a German soldier and a factory worker shaking hands while a weapon is being produced. Text reads: "Durch Arbeit Zum Sieg! Du... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | British poster featuring an illustration of a warship under construction. Text reads: "Every Pound Invested in National War Bonds Means More Ships More Foo... |
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