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Food Wins Victories - Play Square With It

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 3, "Hungry Child." The poster features a smiling soldier feeding a spoonful of steaming peas and carrots to a destitute ...
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Keep It Up! ... Buy More War Bonds

Date: 1945
Description: Treasury Design No. 58, featuring the raising of the stars and stripes on Mt. Suribacki, Iwo Jima by U.S. Marines February 23, 1945.
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At Least One Extra for the Sixth! - 6th War Loan

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 50, "Pilot." The poster features a pilot with his the index finger of his right hand and all five fingers of his left in the air for a ...
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War Bonds in Action - Keep Backing the Attack

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 31. The poster features naval warfare, with many ships in the background and a sailor and officer in the foreground. One sailor is peer...
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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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They Need You...Help Them Win - Enlist in the WAVES

Date: 1944
Description: WAVES Design No. 2, "WAVE and Sailors." The poster features a woman in a naval uniform, with two sailors standing behind her. WAVES is the acronym for Wome...
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Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
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"He'll Be Home Sooner... Now You've Joined the WAVES"

Date: 1944
Description: WAVES Unnumbered Design, "Mother and Daughter." The poster features a proud mother with her arm around her daughter, who is in naval uniform. In the backgr...
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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 ...
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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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Help Him Get Well - Buy Bonds

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design, title and number unknown. The poster features a bleeding soldier being carried off a battlefield on a stretcher by four other soldiers.
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Get into the Fight! - Help Harvest War Crops

Date: 1944
Description: Office of War Information Design No. 1, "Harvest War Crops." The poster features a solder raising his gun to fire.
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"I'd Rather Be with Them - Than Waiting" - Join the WAC - Women's Army Corps

Date: 1944
Description: Women's Army Corps (WAC) Design No. 1, "I'd Rather Be with Them." The poster features a young woman in military uniform with a pack on her shoulders and a ...
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The Bond between Us - 7th War Loan

Date: 1945
Description: Treasury Design, unknown title and number. The poster features three men holding up 150-dollars worth of bonds. The two men holding the bonds are in milita...
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Back the Attack with War Bonds - 3rd War Loan

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 27, "Soldiers." The poster features a soldier on the ground firing a large gun over the shoulder of a second soldier facing him, perhap...
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War Bonds in Action

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 26, "Invasion." The poster features ships landing on the coast and soldiers racing up the beach as explosions rain down around them.
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Buy War Bonds for Fighting Power Today

Date: 1943
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 ...
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Save Every Pay Day at Least 10% in War Bonds

Date: 1942
Description: Treasury Design No. 19, "Paramarine." The poster features a group of paramarines in the air. In the bottom left corner are the words "Semper Fidelis, 167th...
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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...
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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...

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