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Power for Victory

One poster entitled, "Power for Victory" dated 1942-1945. Poster features a sailor standing in a crow's nest. Behind him is a map of the world in red. The poster also reads, "Merchant Seamen man the lifelines!" The poster has a shield in it that...

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Having Trouble Civilian?

One poster entitled, "Having Trouble Civilian?" printed by Carrier, dated 1942-1945. Poster features a soldier peeking out of a foxhole with a shell going off behind him. Illustrated note reads, "Having Trouble Civilian? So am I!... But we're not...

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Give your shirt or Lose It!

One poster entitled, "Give your shirt or Lose It!" printed by Carrier dated 1942-1945. Poster features a civilian holding his jacket and taking off his tie. The poster uses the phrase, "The shirt off your back" as if to motivate Americans to give all...

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Give!

One poster entitled, "Give!" printed by the American Federation of Labor, dated 1942-1945. Poster features a steam whistle blowing. The whistle is labeled AFL. Also featured is the text, "For Home Front For War Front." At the bottom of the poster...

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Don't fall for Enemy Propaganda

One poster entitled, "Don't fall for Enemy Propaganda" printed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, dated 1941-1945. Poster features the face of a man wearing a hat. He is flanked by caricatures in green of Adolf Hitler and Hirohito...

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[Caricature of Hitler, three Nazi officers, and a South American man]

One poster printed by the Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, dated 1941-1945. Poster features a stereotypical caricature of a South American man rolling up his sleeves in a threatening manner towards caricatures of Adolf Hitler and three Nazi...

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Salvage Bones to Make Glycerine for Explosives Glue for Aircraft

One poster entitled, "Salvage Bones to Make Glycerin for Explosives Glue for Aircraft," printed by the director of Public Information for National Salvage Office, dated 1939-1945. Poster features an armed airman in an airplane. The poster has a...

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Wanted Scrap Metal To Make

One poster entitled, "Wanted Scrap Metal To Make" printed by the director of Public Information for National Salvage Office, dated 1939-1945. Poster features types of scrap metals falling into the title. Under the title are images of tanks, shells...

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Housewives! Wage War on Hitler Save

One poster entitled, "Housewives! Wage War on Hitler Save" printed by the director of Public Information for National Salvage Office, dated 1939-1945. Poster features a spoon with a banner tied to it. On the banner it lists things housewives should...

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Fighters of the Allies!

One poster entitled, "Fighters of the Allies!" printed by Lowe & Brydone Printers LTD., dated 1939-1945. Poster features a hand holding a wrench between two gears. The gears have the Nazi swastika in the center. The wrench is breaking the gears. The...

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Munition Workers of Allied Countries...

One poster entitled, "Munition Workers of Allied Countries..." dated 1939-1945. Poster features four scenes separated by a banner that reads, "Munition Workers Of Allied Countries... Are Hitting Back At Hitler... Through British Factories!" The top...

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Allies In The Shipyards

One poster entitled, "Allies In The Shipyards" dated 1939-1941. Poster features a ship being built in a shipyard. There are six images of men working, they are labeled; Norway, Fighting France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium. The poster also...

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Women of the Allies

One poster entitled, "Women of the Allies" dated 1941-1945. Poster features six women in four different scenes. The top scene is a woman swinging a bottle. The second scene is a nurse looking at a medical instrument. The third scene is a woman...

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Ports Are Often Bombed When Convoys Are In Because Somebody Talked

One poster entitled, "Ports Are Often Bombed When Convoys Are In Because Somebody Talked," printed by Her Majesty Stationery Office by Gilbt Whitehead &Co., LTD. dated 1939-1945. Poster features a port bombed by airplanes. There are soldiers using...

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Leaders of the Allied Nations Whose Headquarters Are In Britian

One poster entitled, "Leaders of the Allied Nations Whose Headquarters Are In Britain," dated 1939-1945. Poster features nine portraits of Allied leaders in a V-shape formation. The poster reads, "Leaders of the Allied Nations Whose Headquarters Are...

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By Land Sea and Air The Allies Are Hitting Back

One poster entitled, "By Land Sea and Air The Allies Are Hitting Back," dated 1939-1945. Poster features a V-shape formation of soldiers with flags behind them. There are also six scenes on the poster. The featured flags belong to England, the United...

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[General Montgomery]

One poster printed by the British Information Services, dated 1943-1945. Poster features a portrait of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery in a field of white bordered by red. The poster also features a quote by the field marshall that reads, "I am...

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Hello You Limey

One poster entitled "Hello You Limey," printed by Autocar, dated June 29, 1943. Poster features a scene of two groups of soldiers meeting. The poster reads in part, "The Date: April 7, 1943. The place: A stretch of wasteland in southern Tunisia, 42...

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Strafer Beware!

One poster entitled "Strafer Beware!" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features a scene of an Autocar half-track shooting down Nazi strafers. The poster refers to the half-tracks and says in part, "they are only one of the mobile units...

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Tankers Aweigh

One poster entitled "Tankers Aweigh" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features a scene of soldiers and airmen using an Autocar tanker to refuel a bomber. There are two planes with smoke trailing from them and other planes flying around...

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Invaders Today... Trucks Tomorrow

One poster entitled "Invaders Today... Trucks Tomorrow" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features an Autocar half-track firing its guns, while soldiers charge around it. There is also planes flying in the air above. The poster advertises...

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Gangway for Victory!

One poster entitled "Gangway for Victory!" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features an Autocar half-track exiting a ship onto a beach. In the background soldiers wade in the water. The poster advertises Autocar's work in the war effort...

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Bridge Partners

One poster entitled "Bridge Partners" printed by Autocar, dated December 27, 1943. Poster features an Autocar mobile derrick as it helps lay a pontoon bridge in the background other Autocar vehicles shoot into the sky. The poster reads in part,...

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Deadly!

One poster entitled, "Deadly!" printed by Autocar, dated October 20, 1943. Poster features an Autocar half-track shooting its guns as soldiers charge around it. The poster reads in part, "In Tunisia, within three months, it 'downed 78 German planes...

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Big Trucks for Big Jobs

One poster entitled, "Big Trucks for Big Jobs" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features an Autocar fuel truck on a road in a jungle. There is a bullet-riddled Japanese plane's wing in the foreground. There are four bombers in the air...

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Down to the Sea in Autocars!

One poster entitled, "Down to the Sea in Autocars!" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features an Autocar truck owned by California's Bigge Drayage Company. The truck is hauling a 60 ton hull section of a prefabricated warship for Henry J...

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Heavy Duty is Easy Duty for Autocar

One poster entitled, "Heavy Duty is Easy Duty for Autocar" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features an Autocar truck owned by Art Brockman of Detroit, Michigan, a crane and hauling company. The truck is hauling a 93 ton transformer which...

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Contents... One Hellcat

One poster entitled, "Contents... One Hellcat" printed by Autocar, dated April 3, 1944. Poster features an Autocar truck owned by Dade Brothers, Inc., lifting a crate that carries fully built Hellcats, and Wildcats, two types of planes used by the...

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She's Ready, Too

One poster entitled, "She's Ready, Too" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1942. Poster features a woman dressed in a yellow suit. Behind her is a shadow of a patriot. The poster reads, "She's Ready, Too Buy War Bonds."...

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Let 'Em Have It

One poster entitled, "Let 'Em Have It" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1943. Poster features a soldier throwing a grenade. The background of the poster is grey smoke and barbed wire. The poster reads, "Let 'Em Have It...

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Help Bring Them Back To You!

One poster entitled, "Help Bring Them Back To You!" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1943. Poster features a blue star service banner hanging in a window. There is also a illustrated poster reading, "This is a V home" in...

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Save waste fats for explosives

One poster entitled, "Save waste fats for explosives" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1943. Poster features a hand holding a frying pan. The hand is pouring cooking fat into a red cloud. There are thirteen bombs flying...

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I'll carry mine too!

One poster entitled, "I'll carry mine too!" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1943. Poster features a woman carrying some boxes and a grocery bag. Behind her are soldiers marching, and carrying packs and guns. The poster...

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Buy That Invasion Bond!

One poster entitled, "Buy That Invasion Bond!" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1944. Poster features a battle. Soldiers charge out of carriers as bombs are being dropped from planes. The art used in the poster is signed...

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Buy That Invasion Bond!

One poster entitled, "Buy That Invasion Bond!" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1944. Poster features a battle. Soldiers charge out of carriers as bombs are being dropped from planes. The art used in the poster is signed...

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Thanks Buddy!

One poster entitled, "Thanks Buddy!" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1944. Poster features a soldier shaking hands with a paper boy who is carrying papers under his arm. The poster reads, "Thanks Buddy! Newspaper Boys...

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Don't Shiver This Winter...

One poster entitled, "Don't Shiver This Winter..." printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1944. Poster features a penguin looking cold in a winter hat and scarf and holding a shovel. The penguin is standing on an ice block...

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Make Victory Secure

One poster entitled, "Make Victory Secure" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1945. Poster features a flag flying over a farm. The poster reads, "Make Victory Secure Buy Victory Bonds" The identifying numbers at the bottom...

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Victory - now you can invest in it!

One poster entitled, "Victory - now you can invest in it!" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1945. Poster features a bald eagle perched on a stack of war bonds with his wings spread. The background is three stripes; one...

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Now... All Together

One poster entitled, "Now... All Together" printed by the United States Government Printing Office, dated 1945. Poster is a painting of a photo taken by Associated Press. The image is of five United States Marines planting the United States flag at...

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Fire Is A 5th-Columnist

One poster entitled, "Fire Is A 5th-Columnist," dated 1941-1945. Poster features a personification of fire in a black robe. The poster reads, "Fire Is A 5th-Columnist ..Don't Let It Endanger This Plant.. Keep Fire Out By Being Careful." There is also...

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Verboten

One poster entitled, "Verboten" printed by Remington, dated 1941-1945. Poster features a caricature of a Nazi soldier pointing a finger at a man that is holding an envelope with suggestion written on it. The poster reads, "Verboten Der Fuehrer Has...

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Let's get it over Quick!

One poster entitled, "Let's get it over Quick!" printed by Carrier, dated 1941-1945. Poster features a soldier holding a gun and yelling over his shoulder. The poster reads in part, "Let's stop thinking of a long war! Let's start speeding up a short...

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Careless Words May Cause Disaster!

One poster entitled, "Careless Words May Cause Disaster!" printed by the Director of Public Information, dated 1939-1945. Poster features a sailor with the initials H.M.C.S. (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) on his hat holding his finger up to his lips...

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Beware

One poster entitled, "Beware" printed by the Director of Public Information, dated 1939-1945. Poster features three Canadian servicemen talking over a drink. Behind them in the shadows is the face of a man. His ear is not colored in and is facing...

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If you don't need it... Don't Buy It

One poster entitled, "If you don't need it... Don't Buy It" printed by the director of Public Information, dated 1939-1945. Poster features a white elephant, outlined in orange. The elephant has a for sale sign on it and a couple is looking at it...

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American Junior Red Cross

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Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps : see your principal

Government Printing Office # O-517942. The main part of the poster is a large black-and white photograph of the faces of a smiling teenage girl and boy. The lower part of the poster is a green-tinted photograph of young volunteers harvesting...

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American junior red cross

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The present with a future/war bonds

In this poster by by artist Adolph Dehn, Santa Claus flies his sleigh delivering war bonds.

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For peace and security/buy bonds

WFD 67 - A. Government printing office # O-668763. Image by Linn Ball depicting the Three Wise Men (Three Kings of the Orient) in colorful garments ride camels toward the Christmas Star.

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Ours -- to fight for / freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.

OWI No. 47. Government Printing Office O-511888. A large color poster of four Norman Rockwell paintings for the Saturday Evening Post that depict four American freedoms. In clockwise order, top to bottom, the images are: a man standing up to speak...

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O'er the ramparts we watch/United States Army Air Force

Image by Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer (1897-1982) depicting a young man with dark hair stands in the clouds, holding a large rocket-shaped bomb. He wears a brown leather bomber jacket and a silver I.D. bracelet. Small images of military airplanes fly in...

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Fuel fights!/Save your share

Government Printing Office # O-554712. Image of an eagle bearing label "Fight Waste!" on his back is at the right bottom corner of poster. Text reads: "Fuel fights! / save your share / 1. keep temperature at 65 F./2. don't heat unused rooms. /3...

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Charter of the United Nations

Government Printing Office O-673788. Publication 2472

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Strong in Strength of the Lord/we who fight in the People's cause/will never stop until that cause is won

Government Printing Office # O-488341. Full-color poster with a illustration of three hands holding a monkey wrench, a rifle, and a wrench. O.W.I. Poster No. 8, illustrated by David Stone Martin.
The quote is from a 1942 speech by U. S. Vice...

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Enlist in a proud profession!/Join the U.S. cadet nurse corps

Illustrated by Carolyn Moorhead Edmundson. Caption in blue box at bottom: "A lifetime education-- free! If you can qualify". "For information, go to your local hospital or write U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Box 88, New York, N.Y."
Image of a woman in a...

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Attack Attack Attack/buy war bonds

WSS 697-B. O-497775. Government Printing Office. Illustrated by Ferdinand Warren.

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Till we meet again/buy war bonds

Wss 645-A. Government Printing Office No. O-491739. Illustrated by Joseph Hirsch depicting a smiling soldier in a khaki uniform and cap waves from a porthole. Approved with a stamp on the verso for distribution to schools by the Deputy...

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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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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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Farmers -- Make Your Choice

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Don't go back and backward with Republicans

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The truth about taxes

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Keeping the budget unbalanced...

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Through tariff walls

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"Let's Look at the Record"

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Your electric bill, 1936

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Liberty - A power among the nations. No. 4

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The people's new ten commandments

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Why women want to vote

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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...

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Lutamos pela liberdade de todos [in Portuguese]

Printed by the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Propaganda poster written in Portuguese showing a blue head with helmet trailing with red and white stripes. Part of effort to distribute news, films and broadcast radio to Latin America...

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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...

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[Revolutionary War enlistment broadside]

Revolutionary War broadside encouraging enlistments by assuring recruits that their term of service would be short, permissing payment in lieu of service, but also empowering the commanding officer of each Militia, or the local Committee of Safety,...

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A Day of reckoning at hand [anti-War of 1812 election broadside]

New York State Anti-War of 1812 propaganda regarding election of officials against war.

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Open Letter to Frederick Douglass re: treatment of black cadets at West Point

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To Arms! Fellow Citizens of Northern Ohio.... [Union recuiting broadside]

Union recruiting broadside. "Kentucky appeals to us to come toher relief. Her cause is out cause!..." Alludes to the defense of Fort Stephenson by Kentuckians in 1813. Signed in type by Lt. Col. R. P. Buckland, recruiting for the 72d Ohio. Severely...

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Proclamation by William Marvin, Provisional Gov. of the State of Florida

Calls for the election of delegates to a convention for the re-establishment of state government in Florida. Gov. Marvin's proclamation is dated the 23rd, but the printing is dated the 26th.

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[Proclamation to officers and soldiers of the Continental Army]

Full title as follows, "A Proclamation to the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army who have the real Interest of their Country at Heart, and who are determined to be no longer the Tools and Dupes of Congress, or of France." An appeal to...

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5000 American Seamen detained on board British vessels!

Alerts citizens to British impressment, American prisoners in France, "Algerine Piracy and Barbarity," and the relocation of American families to Canada, and blames it all on the Embargo Act of 1807. Urges "a hearty vote for the ANTI-EMBARGO and...

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