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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09652 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Poster Date: Circa 1915 Pagination: 1 poster Height: 73.8 cm, Width: 53.3 cm Order a Copy

This poster warns about the effect of enemy propaganda disseminating on the home front during the war by giving examples of rumors and the truth side by side. For example "There are frequent suicides in cantonments, where men have to 'Pay for food brought in from outside' or else starve to death" the fact listed next to this example reads, "This is a German lie. THE German circulating it has been interned" There are 6 different examples, and the poster asks citizens to report anyone circulating such rumors to the National Committee of Patriotic Societies.

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