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Pen-and-ink drawing of a woman with a basket and a man with a star on his shirt, captioned "A Word to the Wise."

Food Administration - Posters - Charles Dana Gibson's contribution to Food Conservation

Unknown artist, 1918

Poster of a Statue of Liberty figure pointing at viewer with torch, reading 'You buy a Liberty Bond. Lest I perish.'

"You Buy A Liberty Bond. Lest I perish. Get Behind The Government. Liberty Loan of 1917."

Unknown artist, 1919

Poster of two soldiers holding the American and Red Cross flags, captioned Loyalty to One Means Loyalty to Both.

Poster, Loyalty to One Means Loyalty to Both, Red Cross, ca. 1917

Unknown artist, 1917

Poster of a Red Cross nurse comforting a kneeling wounded soldier amid a smoky battlefield with an ambulance behind them.

Poster, The Comforter, Red Cross, ca. 1917

Unknown artist, 1917

Poster urging readers to buy W.S.S. war savings stamps, showing $4.12 in 1918 growing to $5.00 by 1923.

Save and Invest in the Safest, Simplest Security buy W.S.S. war Saving Stamps issued by the United States Government.…

Unknown artist, 1919

Wartime poster showing a cargo ship and escort vessel at sea above text urging support for shipbuilding for America.

Shoot Ships to Germany and help America Win- Schwab

Unknown artist, 1919

Flag Day poster with two men hoisting a thirteen-star flag, an eagle overhead, a cannon, and text reading 140th Flag Day.

US Flag Day poster 1917

Unknown artist, 1917

Framed 1917 WWI poster showing a bald eagle above a nest with aircraft, reading Keep Him Free, Buy War Savings Stamps.

WWI Poster

Unknown artist, 1918

Poster of a Statue of Liberty figure pointing at viewers with text urging them to buy a Liberty Bond, 1917.

You-Buy a Liberty Bond-Lest I perish!

Unknown artist, 1917

Wartime poster of a yellow biplane with roundel markings over clouds, urging viewers to buy war bonds.

Our Aeroplanes Art.IWMPST10186

Unknown artist, 1918

Red Cross recruitment poster with slogan on blue, showing a silhouette at a window beside a Red Cross flag.

Is there a Red Cross service flag in your home? A heart and a dollar are all you need - Join the Red Cross

Unknown artist, 1917

Poster titled Saving Daylight showing a man writing a postcard before a red sunrise and the Capitol dome, 1918.

"Saving daylight!"

Unknown artist, 1918

Vintage 1914 Red Cross recruitment poster showing a nurse in a cape with red crosses and the slogan "They need us over there.

"They need us over there"

Unknown artist, 1914

Red, white and blue 1917 Liberty Loan poster with a Statue of Liberty button emblem and the slogan 'You wear the button, we'l

"You wear the button - we'll do the rest"

Unknown artist, 1917

WWI poster: an older woman with a soldier behind her, text reading 'You help my boy win the war. Buy a Liberty Bond.'

"You - help my boy win the war"

Unknown artist, 1917

Black and white WWI propaganda poster showing a caricatured Kaiser stepping over bayonets toward Berlin, with Paris and Liber

"We closed the road to Paris - we're on our way to Berlin"

Unknown artist, 1917

1917 war fund poster with three soldiers in wreaths, an American flag, and a Red Cross emblem with the slogan Give till it hu

"The first three!" Give till it hurts - they gave till they died

Unknown artist, 1917

Charcoal drawing of a hooded child with clasped hands above text appealing for relief aid for orphans in the Near East.

"The child at your door"

Unknown artist, 1917

Yellow WWI-style recruitment poster with red question mark and text urging viewers to think about what their pals will think

"You're proud of your pals in the Army of course! But what will your pals think of you?" Think it over!

Unknown artist, 1915

Maroon banner with royal crest and cream script reading "Wake up England" and "Complete the Second Half-million".

"Wake up England" Complete the second half-million

Unknown artist, 1914

WWI-era poster with blue text urging readers to buy war savings for 124 cartridges for 15/6 and go to the Post Office.

124 cartridges for 15-6 and your money back with interest

Unknown artist, 1915

World War I Liberty Loan poster with an oval portrait of President Wilson between two American flags and a call to buy bonds.

"Buy a Bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan and Help Win the War. "The time has come to conquer or submit," - "For us there i…

Unknown artist, 1919

Poster with two portrait drawings, facsimile telegrams, and text titled 2 Inspiring Cablegrams praising American shipbuilders

2 inspiring cablegrams

Unknown artist, 1918

Black-and-white 1917 poster of a giant seated soldier surrounded by workers carrying supplies, with factories and ships behin

20 at home to 1 in the trenches

Unknown artist, 1917

Two-panel 1919 recruitment poster with headlines '50,000 Going Over' and '50,000 for A.E.F.' and photos of soldiers and Paris

50,000 going over! Will you be one of them?

Unknown artist, 1919

1918 Liberty Day poster with gold soldiers before flags of America, Britain, France and Italy, urging people to buy Liberty B

426th anniversary of the discovery of America, Liberty Day, Saturday, October 12th, 1918

Unknown artist, 1918

Wartime recruitment poster with three numbered questions to employers in cream text on black, framed by red and green borders

3 questions to employers (...) More men are wanted to-day. What can you do?

Unknown artist, 1915

WWI recruitment poster with four questions to men who have not enlisted, ending with the words Enlist To-day, in black type o

4 questions to men who have not enlisted. (...) Enlist to-day

Unknown artist, 1915

Wartime poster with a royal coat of arms and GR monogram advertising 4½% War Loan subscriptions from 5 shillings upwards.

4 1-2% war loan subscriptions here

Unknown artist, 1915

Monochrome poster of soldiers sleeping in a crowded wooden station hut at night under hanging lamps, with YMCA logos.

3 A.M. in a London station hut

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster with two photos of a man with a prosthetic arm, one portrait and one at factory machinery, above printed text.

A successful workman

Unknown artist, 1919

Poster showing ship American Industry threatened by torpedo labeled Strike, with an Agitator figure on shore and smoke over E

A shot at American industry is a shot at American democracy

Unknown artist, 1917