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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster encouraging citizens to salvage their scrap metals for the war. Features an illustration of a scrap metal "man" hitch-hiking a ride from... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the use of scrap metal for war materials. Features illustrations of guns, tanks, ships and other armaments that could be produced using sc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Includes an illustration of a farmer and International Harvester dealer dumping a... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 10, "Girl War Worker." The poster features a young woman wearing overalls and protective gloves with her hair bound back... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding... |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 12, "Whistle." The poster features a whistle blowing and emitting smoke with the silhouette of a factory in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | National Housing Agency Design No. 3, "Woman and Two Children." Shows a troubled mother sitting with her arm around her young daughter and her son standing... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | National Housing Agency Design No. 2, "Convert Extra Space." The poster features a well-kept suburban home with a flagpole emerging from the garden. To the... |
| 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: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 5, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 4, "Women at Work." The poster features a crowd of women in various work uniforms lined up along the left border. The su... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 3, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | National Housing Agency Design No. 1, "Welcome Mat." The poster features a red, white, and blue welcome mat on a doorstep. In the bottom right corner the a... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | At the top of the image, a hand pours fat from a skillet into a explosion of thirteen bombs flying towards the viewer. Text at top reads, "Save waste fats ... |
| 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of a cargo ship and Army truck set against that... |
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