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circa 1880
Western Engraving Co.
Engraving of John Alexander Logan
Biographical note is adhered to lower right. Engraved expressly for "Patriotism of Illinois" Clarke & Co. Publishers.
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Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895
Engraving of Alexander McDowell McCook
Biographical note is adhered to the bottom.
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H.B. Hall & Sons, fl. 1850-1900
Engraving of Edward Moody McCook
Handwritten biographical note is adhered to lower left.
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Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885
Engraving of Irvin McDowell
Biographical notes are adhered to the lower left and lower right.
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Milroy, Robert Huston, 1816-1890
Engraving of Robert Huston Milroy
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Engraving of John Pope
Biographical note adhered to left.
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Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
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O’Neill, John A. (b. ca. 1836)
Engraving of John Aaron Rawlins
C.B. Richardson, Publisher.
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Image reproduction of painting, A group of the "Fighting McCooks," Representing Major Daniel McCook and his nine sons, all of whom served in the Army or Navy of the United States.
Image torn from a book.
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Image reproduction of engraving of William Passmore Carlin
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Newspaper engraving of William Barker Cushing
This is a newspaper clipping of an engraving reproduction of Cushing with a separate biographical note attached to upper left. Also there is another smaller engraving of Cushing attached the upper right.
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Engraving of James Birdseye McPherson
C.B. Richardson, Publisher,
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circa April 1942
Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
to Estelle Spero
Discusses a fist fight that he got into after being provoked by a series of practical jokes. Also discusses his feelings of patriotism, and the need to fight for one's country.
GLC09120.005
1703
Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de, fl. 1703
Compilation of 16 engravings taken from : Nouveaux Voyages de Mr. Le Baron de Lahontan, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale
The plates depict American Indians in various scenes. In upper left a small map of Canada's East cost and a profile view of Quebec.
GLC09517
1914
Stevens, Frederick Clement, 1861-1923
to A.G. Johnson
Replies to Johnson's telegram of January 13, 1914 calling for Stevens to oppose the literacy test as part of the Burnett immigration bill. Agrees with Johnson that the bill should not pass and, "...if the provisions of the bill had been carried out...
GLC09518.01
Manahan, James, 1866-1932
Manahan's reply to Johnson's telegram that he oppose the literacy test of the Burnett immigration bill. Agrees that the test unfairly discriminates against immigrants. "You know as well as I do that if the rabid restrictionists of our country had had...
GLC09518.02
Smith, George Ross, 1864-1952
In reply to Johnson's telegram, Smith details his opposition to the Burnett Bill especially the measure for illiteracy testing. "I believe in keeping out the crazed, the diseased, the defective… but I do not believe in excluding on the mere ground of...
GLC09518.03
1919
Lejeune, John A., fl. 1919
A Message From the Skies by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune Commanding Second Division, A.E.F.
It begins, "1. One year ago, the enemy was at the high tide of success. His great offensives of March and April in Picardy and Belgium had with difficulty been checked..." With 2 other bullet points. With Native American chief's face within a star...
GLC09519
circa 1940
Humphrey, Walter Beach, 1892-1966
American Junior Red Cross
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1943
United States. Department of Agriculture
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...
GLC09520.02
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
circa 1941
American junior red cross
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1942
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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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.
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United States. Department of the Treasury
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.
GLC09520.09
Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978
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 Satruday Evening Post that depict four American freedoms. In clockwise order, top to bottom, the images are: a man standing up to speak...
GLC09520.10
circa 1944
United States. Army Air Forces
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
1918
Beneker, Gerritt A., fl. 1918
Concrete Ammunition / Second - Line - Defense
With printed text on back.
GLC09521.01
Work As You Would Fight
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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
The H.C. Miner Litho. Co
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.
GLC09523
Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991
Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds
WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.
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