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| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring four women in brown coats, pants, and hats walking along a field. One of the women is leading a team of two horses, two of the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a man eating at a table in a restaurant and smoking a cigar. Food is still on the plates in front of him. Male waiters in th... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel in which an overworked mule, labeled: "Industry," is running on a treadmill that is belt-driving a wheel on the side of a ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of six long lines of men marching into a factory. Poster text reads: "Success in War — depends on co-operation and ... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of men signing paperwork in an office with naval recruitment posters. In a "dream" bubble, sailors are sighting and adjusting... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a boy operating a plow, in silhouette. In the background, soldiers are operating an artillery piece among the rubble of... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a a soldier holding his "Honorable Discharge" papers and reaching for the handle of a door. The door has a sign that re... |
| 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 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with two illustrations of farmers plowing fields with horse-drawn plows. Text reads, in part: "The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye, More... |
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