Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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Use WWI posters to learn more about WWI as well as the use of this media in building support for the war |
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Description: | Advertisement picturing a white woman and an African American man with the title "The Real Criminals Are Those Who Preach Racial Integration." |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission. |
Date: | 09 24 1945 |
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Description: | Man pointing to a chart of Tennessee's industrial expansion compared with eight other southern states for 1938 and 1939. The photograph was taken for Wisco... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Uncle Sam recruiting poster that says "I want You for U.S. Army". Poster has three different addresses for nearest recruiting offices. |
Date: | 12 01 1934 |
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Description: | Sigrid Schultz, Ambassador William Dodd, and Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels seen together at the foreign press ball. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW... |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Cover of flyer found in the papers of the National Committee to Abolish the Un-American Activities Committee. Founded in 1960, the committee later became ... |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | "It Can Happen Here," a pamphlet distributed by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. The CACC was founded by Fred C. Schwartz in 1953, the peak of the ant... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | Anti-communist brochure, copyright by Harry T. Everingham, Chicago, Illinois, in 1947. The text asks "Why not try Communism?" and replies "The answer is y... |
Date: | 1951 |
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Description: | Match book cover distributed by the Superior Match Company of Chicago. The front cover says, "I like McCarthy and his Methods. I am with Joe McCarthy in ... |
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Description: | Anti-Communist brochure printed and distributed by the Warner Electric Brake & Clutch Company of Beloit, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Brochure advertising anti-Communism stamps created and distributed by McAllen, Texas. The handwritten date on the brochure places its publication at the p... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | "The Truth about Senator Joe McCarthy," a pamphlet issued by the McCarthy Club. The text responded to several charges that had been made against Joseph R.... |
Date: | 1951 |
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Description: | Brochure about the record of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy issued by the Democratic Organizing Committee of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Democratic Party began t... |
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Description: | "Little Rock's 'Lady' of the Year", a flyer distributed by racists in Little Rock, illustrated by her 1946 police mug shot and arrest record. The text char... |
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Description: | Page 2 of a leaflet entitled "The Little Rock Story", apparently intended by its publisher, American Nationalist, to persuade NAACP sympathizers in Little ... |
Date: | 02 1971 |
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Description: | Political propaganda poster featuring a red, white, and blue eagle being struck down from the sky, accompanied by the phrase: "Strike Him Down." The eagle... |
Date: | 03 1966 |
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Description: | Army recruiting office. The picture was probably taken by a member of the staff of the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam, which wa... |
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