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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...

GLC09520.11

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...

GLC09548

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...

GLC09563

[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.

GLC07690

[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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