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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 showing a line of factory workers with a larger image of a "production soldier" behind them. Includes the text: "The badge of the production soldier... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing men whispering to each other, with caricatures of Adolf Hitler and a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) in the background. Includes the... |
| 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... |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design, unknown title and number. The poster features a crowd of civilians lined up in a V-formation and waving cash in the air. |
| 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: | 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. 2, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing his thumb at the people working at machines behind him. The subti... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of War Information poster, with an illustration of a woman wearing a protective headwrap operating a machine. |
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