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Woodblock print of a woman in a blue gown and a man with an umbrella beside a masted ship at a harbor pier.

Eight beautiful places in Yokohama - ships returning to pier

Utagawa Yoshitora, 1861

Woodblock print of a three-masted Western ship with an American flag, framed by a red floral border, with Japanese text.

Foreign ships calling at port

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1853

Woodblock print of a paddle steamship flying an American flag, with smoke rising while two robed figures watch from the shore

Foreigners' ship: steamship

Utagawa Hiroshige II and Utagawa Hiroshige, 1861

Japanese print of a Western-style clock beside a rolled scroll showing a sailing ship on a patterned cloth.

Painting of a ship of treasures and a western clock

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, 1818

Japanese print of a treasure ship on waves with a flying crane, a tortoise, and vertical calligraphy at right.

Treasure ship with crane and tortoise

Niwa Tōkei, 1810

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji seen across a bay, with fishing boats, pine trees on rocky shore, and a red sky.

Sea at Miura in Sōshū Province

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Teal woodblock print of large ocean waves curling and breaking into white foam under a pale sky.

Ocean waves

Uehara Konen, 1900

Poster showing ships launching into green waves with soldiers, airplanes and an eagle, text reading 95 Ships Launched, July 4

The tidal wave--July 4, 1918, 95 ships launched

Joseph Clement Coll, 1918

WWI poster of a helmeted Marine charging with a machine gun, American flag and advancing troops behind, text reading First in

First in France--U.S. Marines

John A. Coughlin, 1917

Poster of a woman drinking sugar through a straw while sugar ships sail toward a war-torn shore under a dark cloud.

Sugar means ships--The consumption of sugar sweetened drinks must be reduced For your beverages 400 million lbs. of s…

Ernest Fuhr, 1918

Recruiting poster with two Marines in dress blues, one with a rifle and one with a bugle, beside the Marine emblem.

U.S. Marines "Soldiers of the sea" - For full information apply recruiting station

J. C. Leyendecker, 1917

Poster of a helmeted U.S. Marine charging with a rifle over a trench, an American flag behind him, orange sky.

Go over the top with U.S. Marines

John A. Coughlin, 1917

Woodblock print of towering waves near a cliff with a sailboat and snow-capped Mount Fuji in the distance.

Sea at Satta in Suruga Province

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Poster of two U.S. Marines on a sandy shore, one waving a signal flag and one using binoculars, with battleships at sea.

U.S. Marines

J. C. Leyendecker, 1917

Sepia lithograph of a wooden ship launching sideways at a shipyard as a crowd watches from the shore beneath an American flag

Launching another victory ship United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation /

Joseph Pennell, 1918

Woodblock print of crashing waves on a rocky coast, travelers on a cliff path, a boat on the bay, and Mount Fuji in the dista

The coast at Hota in Boshu

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Charcoal drawing of a mother bending over a child with another child behind her, above text urging Americans to eat less to a

Hunger - For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium Will you eat less wheat, meat, fats and sugar that…

Henry Raleigh, 1918

Wartime poster of three shipyard workers riveting a glowing steel hull, with the caption TEAMWORK BUILDS SHIPS.

Teamwork builds ships

William Dodge Stevens, 1917

Woodblock print of two dark-sailed boats on a shimmering sea at dusk, with a pink light path on the water.

The sparkling sea

Yoshida Hiroshi, 1926

Poster of a cheering worker with raised hat beside an American flag, shipyard cranes behind, reading Another ship, another vi

Hip-hip! Another ship - another victory United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation /

George Hand Wright, 1918

World War I recruitment poster of Marines advancing with the American flag past a burning village and a biplane overhead.

U.S. Marines - first to fight in France for freedom Enlist with the "soldiers of the sea" /

F. C. Yohn, 1917

WPA-style 1941 poster urging enrollment in the American Merchant Marine, showing a hoisted cargo sack beside a ship's hull.

Enroll American Merchant Marine Special training - deck department, engineering, radio, steward, cooks, etc. : Sign u…

Glenn Stuart Pearce, 1941