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Vintage war loan poster showing a leather pouch, coins and a one pound note, urging citizens to lend savings to the nation.

War loan. Lend your savings to the nation to-day

Unknown artist, 1915

Black WWI poster explaining War Saving Stamps costing sixpence, stuck to cards, buying certificates that become one pound.

War saving stamps. Make your sixpences grow into pounds

Unknown artist, 1918

Tan WAR recruitment poster with bold black text urging Britons to enlist for the defence of homes and country.

War. Britons have never failed in their duty and never will. Enlist for the defence of your homes and country

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse with a wounded soldier, a mother with baby and a girl, under the words Join Our Red Cross.

What can you do? Join our Red Cross

Unknown artist, 1919

Poster with a robed woman holding a wreath, Allied flags and battle names, reading Welcome Home Our Gallant Boys.

Welcome home our gallant boys

Unknown artist, 1918

Red, white and blue 1918 poster reading WELCOME HOME, showing a soldier and sailor shaking hands before a blue star.

Welcome home

Unknown artist, 1918

WWI recruitment poster: a soldier and a factory worker shake hands before artillery guns and smoking factories.

We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions!

Unknown artist, 1915

What Burns said (in) 1782 holds good in 1915. Take his tip

Unknown artist, 1915

Black and white propaganda poster contrasting a bridge of ships labeled American Industry with a hyphen bridge of plots betwe

Which bridge do you want?

Unknown artist, 1917

Cream recruitment poster with black and red text urging men to enlist today, framed by a red border, with Kodak colour scale.

Who made these little islands the centre of the greatest and most powerful empire the world has ever seen? (...) Enli…

Unknown artist, 1915

Recruitment poster with Union Jack lettering reading 'Which? Have you a reason, or only an excuse, for not enlisting now!'

Which? Have you a reason, or only an excuse, for not enlisting now!

Unknown artist, 1915

Green-on-cream printed poster titled What Have You Done for Ireland, with a verse urging men to answer the call to serve.

What have you done for Ireland?

Unknown artist, 1915

Cartoon poster of a sailor and doughboy reading a newspaper headline urging them to join the Navy, dated 1918.

Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at once

Unknown artist, 1918

Wartime poster of a factory worker tipping his hat to Uncle Sam above an industrial city, urging workers to stay on their job

Will you co-operate or will you obstruct?

Unknown artist, 1917

1917 US Food Administration poster urging less meat, wheat bread and sugar, with shield emblems and dense printed text.

Why is it necessary to eat less meat and less wheat bread?

Unknown artist, 1917

Purple poster strip with cream text asking why you are stopping here when your pals are out there.

Why are you stopping here when your pals are out there?

Unknown artist, 1915

WWI-era recruitment poster in olive and cream with large text asking why you are not in khaki and urging you to enlist.

Why aren't you in khaki? You'll be wanted. Enlist at once

Unknown artist, 1915

Horizontal 1915 recruitment poster reading WHY NOT JOIN THE ARMY, framed by Union Jack designs and bold colour stripes.

Why not join the army

Unknown artist, 1915

Green and red WWI recruitment poster reading 'Why not join the army for the period of the war?' with a decorative border.

Why not join the army for the period of the war? You will like it. Your pals will like it. The Kaiser will hate it

Unknown artist, 1916

1914 wartime poster of a bandaged soldier with rifle beside a fallen soldier in snow, with a stadium crowd inset above.

Will they never come?

Unknown artist, 1914

Dark 1914 recruitment poster with cream headline 'Why More Men Are Needed' and a quotation from the Prime Minister in a green

Why more men are needed

Unknown artist, 1915

Vintage recruitment poster of a top-hatted man in a Union Jack waistcoat pointing at viewer, with soldiers behind him.

Who's absent? Is it you?

Unknown artist, 1915

Sepia recruiting poster showing a ship in the Panama Canal and photos of U.S. Army drills, swimming, and artillery.

Winter in Panama with the U.S. Army

Unknown artist, 1917

Recruitment poster: two women and a boy at a window watch soldiers marching by, with the text "Women of Britain say - Go!"

Women of Britain say - "Go!"

Unknown artist, 1915

Poster of three soldiers playing cards in a trench, with the caption Will You Make a Fourth? in bold letters.

Will you make a fourth?

Unknown artist, 1915

Vintage recruitment poster of a soldier in yellow uniform riding a rearing white horse, reading You are wanted by the U.S. Ar

You are wanted by the U.S. Army

Unknown artist, 1918

Poster with a black silhouette of a house and trees above a blue inverted triangle and text directing women to the YWCA Blue

Women, girls - rest and information go to the YWCA blue triangle house opposite Union Station

Unknown artist, 1917

Sepia WWI-era YMCA campaign poster with a painted portrait of a mustached officer in a peaked cap and a quotation below.

YMCA United War Work Campaign, November 11-18, 1918

Unknown artist, 1918

Vintage poster of Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty and a cherub under a red sun, reading World Peace with Liberty and Prosperity 1919.

World peace with liberty and prosperity-1919-Happy new year

Unknown artist, 1918

Vertical WWI poster shaped like a large shell, with a Kaiser portrait medallion, imperial eagle, and German headline about Li

World War I artillery shell poster with Kaiser Wilhelm II - from, Das Geheimnis von Lüttich

Unknown artist, 1914

WWI poster of marching soldiers with rifles under the slogan "Come On, Boys!" urging National Guard enlistment.

World War I poster "Come on, Boys!" Give the Guard a fighting chance

Unknown artist, 1919

Vintage poster of three men with a rifle, plow and tractor wheel under a sunrise, reading 'Enlist Plow-Buy Bonds'.

Your country calls

Unknown artist, 1918