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| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a World War II scrap drive effort sponsored by Wisconsin Governor Julius Heil. The effort was known as "MacArthur Week" and took place b... |
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| Description: | World War II-era recruiting poster for the American Red Cross showing an armed U.S. soldier in a trench smiling and holding a cup of coffee. A male and a f... |
| Date: | 01 13 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 31, "Tanks in Action." The poster features tanks and soldiers pressing forward in a battle scene. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Office of War Information Design No. 1, "Harvest War Crops." The poster features a solder raising his gun to fire. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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. |
| 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: | Treasury Design No. 24, "Happy Family." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a naval battle commencing on stormy waters in shades of ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 9, "The Marine." The poster features a wounded marine sitting with a gun held in one hand, framed against a forest ba... |
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