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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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