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Collection of World War I posters [Decimalized .01-.02]

Collection of two items related to World War I. Consists of posters pertaining to the raising funds for a refugee crisis and a recruitment poster for the Navy.

GLC09809

"Five Thousand by June, Graduate Nurses Your Country Needs You."

One poster entitled, "Five Thousand by June, Graduate Nurses Your Country Needs You," printed during World War I. Depicts a nurse with a hospital camp in the background.

GLC09812

"Help Us Help Our Boys."

One lithograph printed during World War I. Depicts a smiling woman in a YMCA uniform pushing a poster on a wooden exterior that reads, "Help Us Help Our Boys." Below the woman is the text, "United War Work Campaign, Nov. 11th to 18th, $170,500,000."

GLC09813

[Collection of Allied Printing Trades Council Liberty Bond posters][Decimalized .01-.05]

Collection of World War I posters dated 1917-1918. Consists of five lithographs printed in Yiddish, Hungarian, Greek, Italian and German. Slogans throughout the collection encourage the idea that America's freedom is everyone's freedom and to...

GLC09815

A Message From the Skies by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune Commanding Second Division, A.E.F.

It begins, "1. One year ago, the enemy was at the high tide of success. His great offensives of March and April in Picardy and Belgium had with difficulty been checked..." With 2 other bullet points. With Native American chief's face within a star...

GLC09519

Work As You Would Fight

With printed text on back.

GLC09521.02

The Navy needs you! Don't read American history - Make it!

Poster by Flagg, James Montgomery (1870-1960) showing a sailor taking a man in a suit by the shoulder, and gesturing toward battleships at sea and a figure of Liberty waving the American flag.

GLC09523

Side by side - Britannia! Britain's Day Dec. 7th 1918

Printed by American Lithographic Co. N.Y. Shows Uncle Sam arm in arm with the representative of Britain, Lady Liberty, closely followed by Britain's lion and the eagle of the US. The poster advertises December 7, 1918 as a special days of celebration...

GLC09548

Our Colored Soldiers in Action

A chromolithographic poster depicting African American soldiers fighting in World War I. In the poster an American bombers are flying overhead and an American soldier is boyoneting an enemy soldier. Featured prominently in towards the middle of the...

GLC09563

[Letters to Paul H. Lobik] [Decimalized .001-.176]

A collection of two hundred and two letters sent to Paul H. Lobik. Many of the letters are from girls and discuss possible dates. There are also letters from Margaret Lobik, Paul's wife, and many letters from Pat Addison a good friend and writer...

GLC09576

[World War I stereocards] [Decimalized .001-.297]

298 World War I stereocards published by Keystone Viewing Company with lengthy descriptions on the back.

GLC09584

Serajevo, Yugoslavia -- Scene of Murder of Crown Prince which Started Flame that Engulfed All Europe

Shows landscape of houses, buildings, bridges, and scenery in Sarajevo, Bosnia during its occupation by the Austro-Hungarian empire.

GLC09584.001

Parade of Cuirassier Guards Marching to the Parade Ground, Berlin, Germany.

Shows ranks of Prussian soldiers, mounted and on foot, marching towards a parade in Germany.

GLC09584.002

Helmeted German Soldiers Lined Up for Review

Side view of lines of German soldiers in full uniform standing at attention for review.

GLC09584.003

A Bristling Forest of Bayonets. Russian Troops on Review

Crowd of Russian troops stretching to horizon with two officers in foreground on horseback.

GLC09584.004

French Colonial (Morocco) Cavalry in Paris.

French Moroccan troops in white turbans and cloaks ride on horseback through the streets of Paris.

GLC09584.005

The 48th Highlanders of Toronto

Parade of uniformed Canadian soldiers marching in ranks on a field.

GLC09584.006

Vise, Belgium, Scene of the First Conflict of the War

View of buildings and their reflections in the Meuse River after the first clash of World War I.

GLC09584.007

A Warm Reception Awaiting the Enemy, on Belgium's Defence Line Near Antwerp

Belgian soldiers in a turnip field crouch behind a trench fashioned from a log, aiming their rifles towards the off-camera German army.

GLC09584.008

Trenches of the Allies Among the Dunes and Brambles on the Coast of Flanders

Allied soldiers position their weapons while crouching behind a trench next to the coast of Belgium.

GLC09584.009

Skoda Works, Pilsen, Bohemia, Where the Famous Skoda Mortars Were Made.

Men and women stand next to a Skoda howitzer at an artillery factory in Bohemia.

GLC09584.010

At Longwy, France--Ruins Around Main Gateway

Three German soldiers sit in front of piles of rubble with the remains of two bombed buildings behind them.

GLC09584.011

"Mur Tschoffen" Wall in Dinant before which Germans Shot Many Loyal Belgians

A Belgian family stand in front of the memorial at the wall at Dinant where invading German soldiers executed a number of Belgian citizens after the invasion in August 1914.

GLC09584.012

Altar of Malines Cathedral. Wrecked by German Shells.

A priest sits beside the destroyed altar at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut in Malines, Belgium, a town bombarded several times over the course of the war.

GLC09584.013

Cardinal Mercier, Renowned Belgian Prelate, Speaking at Dinant, Belgium

Cardinal Mercier speaks to a crowd at the cathedral in Dinant, Belgium, a town that suffered a massacre of Belgian civilians when the Germans invaded in 1914. Mercier was known for speaking out passionately against German atocities in Beglium...

GLC09584.014