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Housewives! Save waste fats for explosives!

Wartime conservation poster by Walter Richards. "SAVE WASTE FATS FOR EXPLOSIVES!." Left side of the poster shows fat pouring down from a kitchen skillet to an artillery piece manned by three helmeted soldiers. Blue and red lettering reads:...

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Save freedom of speech / buy war bonds.

OWI No. 44. Government Printing Office O-510257. From the Four Freedoms series. From an painting in the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. A man stands to speak at a town meeting. A folded document is in his pocket. He wears a worn bomber...

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Ours... to fight for/freedom from want

OWI No. 45. Government Printing Office O-511886. Based on Norman Rockwell's painting "Thanksgiving Dinner" This poster features a painting of people at a dinner table. An older man and woman stand at the head of the table. The woman is putting a...

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The Atlantic Charter

All-lettered poster in black & white. Text of the Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Title and heading at top. Two columns of text below in italics.

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Don't fall for enemy propaganda

Color lithograph by artist Jack Betts. Warns of enemy propaganda against the U.S. Government, the Allies, Catholics, Jews and Protestants during World War II. Poster depicts the face of a man wearing a hat flanked by caricatures in green of Hitler...

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For gunpowder/save waste fats

Government Printing Office # O-533197.

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I'm Counting on You!

OWI No. 78. Government Printing Office # O-534057. Poster depicts Uncle Sam in stars and stripes top hat holds his finger to his mouth in a "hushing" gesture. Illustrated by Leon Helguera.

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Is your trip necessary?

OWI No. 73. Government Printing Office # O-533555. Black & white photograph of a bus or train car which is overcrowded with passengers. Many of the passengers are servicemen in uniform. The rest are civilian men, women, and children.

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For freedom's sake/buy war bonds

WSS 789-A. OWI - 35. Government Printing Office # O-514158. A small color poster by artist John Atherton (1900-1952) promoting war bonds. In the foreground is an image of the Concord Minute Man statue (a sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Concord...

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Where our men are fighting/our food is fighting

Government Printing Office # O-506016. In the foreground, a crate of food is dropping via parachute. In the background are parachuting men.

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Save freedom of worship/buy war bonds

OWI No. 43. Government Printing Office O-510256. From the Four Freedoms series. Based on a painting form the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. Men and women of various races and faiths, including a woman with rosary beads, clasp hands...

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Back the attack/buy war bonds

WSS No. 829. Government Printing Office O-537864. Poster by Georges Schreiber (1904-1977 ) depicting a battle scene. A soldier lies on the ground and holds his military rifle in a ready position. Several parachutes can be seen the sky above and...

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Ours..to fight for/freedom from fear

OWI No. 46. Government Printing Office O-511887. Based on a painting from the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. From the Four Freedoms series. Color poster of a mother and father tucking two children into bed. The father is holding glasses...

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Special civilian defense insignia

Government Printing Office O-484125

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Work As You Would Fight

With printed text on back.

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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.

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The Independent Reflector, [No. 30 (June 21 1753)]

One pamphlet published by the Independent Reflector dated June 21, 1753. A printing of an essay by Phileleutherus regarding oaths and blessings.

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[Collection of letters to George Driver][Decimalized .01-.34]

A collection of letters and quotations sent to George Driver by his family and friends. Most of the items are bible quotes or poems from his mother Susan and sister Susie. Possibly all sent to Driver during an expedition to Zanzibar that he...

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The Life of Abraham Lincoln

With inscription from Marcus A, Feinstein 1899-1971 born Tiflis, Russia "To my daughter on her 21st birthday He is why I came to America your father"

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[Collection of 13 broadsides regarding the re-election of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] [Decimalized .01-.13]

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Saved more than a million homes

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Don't be fooled by figures

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Facts -- Mr. Business Man

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The farmer remembers longer than the elephant

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Our wealth of earth and water

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