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1863 ca.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
The President's dedication address at Gettysburg
Printed by Miller & Mathews. Contains textual variations indicative of a very early printing of the Gettysburg Address.
GLC06811
1852/08/23
$2,500 Reward! Mississippi Co., Missouri broadside advertising runaway slaves
Broadside advertising four runaway slaves and their characteristics, offering more compensation if captured in a free state. (With losses to text.)
GLC07238
1915 circa
Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason
List of arguments for why women should be allowed to vote, including "Because women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men. Because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote...
GLC08963
1943
United States. Office of War Information
Ten Years Ago:/ The Nazis burned these books/ ... but free Americans can still read them
OWI Poster no. 66. Government Printing Office # O-528869. Poster in red and black tones. In the center is a black & white photograph showing a crowd of people standing next to a bonfire and giving the Nazi salute.
GLC09520.03
1944
United States. Public Health Service. Division of Nurse Education
Be a cadet nurse
Image by Jon Whitcomb. NE Poster #3. Government Printing Office # O-599074. Color poster of two women in cadet nurse uniforms. The woman on the left wears a military-style uniform with blue jacket and cap. The woman on the right wears a white nurse...
GLC09520.04
1942
Office of War Information, Division of Public Inquiries
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th!
Government printing Office O-491977. OWI No. 14. Quotes Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Shows a tattered, torn U.S. flag flies at half-staff as dark smoke billows in the background. Allen Russell Saalburg (1899-1987), artist.
GLC09520.08
United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
United/United Nations fight for freedom
OWI No. 79. Government Printing Office # O-534058. Flags of the member nations of the United Nations wave amidst smoke of a bombardment, with military airplanes, ships and tanks in background.
GLC09520.30
1918
United States Food Administration
Food will win the war
Color poster by Charles E. Chambers of people standing on a boat or shoreline at New York Harbor. They appear to be European immigrants. In the foreground, a man appears to be pleading with a woman holding a basket of food. In the background can be...
GLC09522
Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991
Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds
WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.
GLC09524
March 13, 1866
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
to Ellen Caskie
Informs that he received the box of photographs last night and has signed them with pleasure. Advises her not to hesitate to send more. Written while president of Washington College. With autograph envelope by Lee.
GLC01433
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