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212
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116
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106
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Country
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A British short "Sunderland" flying boat patrolling the sea lanes.
A "flying boat" aircraft is shown flying over the sea. A ship can be seen in the water below.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Davies, Roland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
If you tell where they're going-- they may never get there! : don't talk about troop movements!
Black and white image of soldiers boarding a ship.
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. War Department.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Keep the wheels turning! : repair work is vital to the war effort.
Color poster in black and orange tones. Image of a hand holding a wrench.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Newbould, Frank, 1887-1951.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Battleships of the Royal Navy, steaming in line ahead.
Color poster of four battleships at sea. One appears closest at right, and three are in the background. Each ship has large guns or cannons that are firing. Three airplanes fly in the sky above the ships.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Davies, Roland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A half-filled stamp album is like a half-equipped soldier.
Long banner with text in the middle and images on the left and right sides. On the left side is a soldier holding a "missing" gun. On the right side is an image of a stamp album.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. War Savings Staff.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Big guns of a British battleship. Each gun fires a shell weighing nearly one ton.
Color drawing of the view from a ship deck, as large cannon-type guns are firing from the deck, over the sea.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Davies, Roland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homemaker's war guide.
Chart with columns providing illustrated suggestions for supporting the war effort. Colors used are red, blue, black/gray and white. Topics include conserving, storing, and reusing food, textiles, rubber, and metals, and instructions for taking protective measures in case of attack, and for participating in wartime community organizations. Centered at top of the poster is a graphic image representing women in various work and military uniforms, standing with airplanes, ambulances, a car, and a tank. The "homemaker" is highlighted at center and is represented wearing an apron, holding a saucepan, standing inside a red house.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
One of the magnificent British fighters which have shot down over 3,000 German planes.
Color illustration of a British military airplane shooting down a German military airplane. German plane is falling to the ground.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Davies, Roland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Help him ... help yourself ... : for victory, at least 10% of your pay every payday.
Color poster features black and white photographs, with large arrows containing captions pointing to each photo. The captions explain the benefits of war bonds. One photograph is of a soldier in a combat uniform, holding a rifle. The other photograph is of a man in a work shirt, doing mechanical work.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Portrait of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth [later known as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother], Consort of King George VI of England. She wears six strands of pearls, a tiara, and an embroidered dress with three decorations attached to it. One decoration is the Family Order of King George VI, which features a portrait of the King. The decoration on her left breast is the Garter Star, which features St. George's cross.
Date:
1937~
Creator:
Wilding, Dorothy, 1893-1976.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
H.M.S. "Nelson" firing a broadside with her 16-inch guns. This ship is armed with nine of these great guns and many smaller ones.
Color image of a British warship at sea, firing its guns. Dark smoke is seen in the background. The ship is flying the White Ensign flag of the Royal Navy.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Be patriotic: sign your country's pledge to save the food.
Color poster of a woman with her hands extended toward the viewer. She is wearing an dress that appears to be made from a draped U.S. flag, and a cap of a stars-and-stripes motif.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Stahr, Paul, 1883-1953
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Get in the scrap.
Four images in black with gray backgrounds and captions in red. The black images are: an aerial bomb, a tank, a battleship, and an anti-aircraft gun. The gray background design incorporates outline images of various junk metal objects. Each caption describes the finished object and the amount of scrap metal required to produce it.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. War Production Board. Bureau of Industrial Conservation.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Every rivet a bullet : speed the ships.
Black & white etching of large ship on wooden platforms. There is a British flag on front of the ship. There is a crane to the right of the ship. The title is printed in red at the top of the poster and the subtitle is white in a black border at bottom.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Lucas.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
German navy uniforms and insignia.
Color poster showing the insignia, patches, hats and uniforms of the German navy. The poster features four figures wearing different navy uniforms: a white summer uniform, a blue service dress uniform, a blue signal corps uniform, and a green officer's field service dress uniform. Also shown are the national emblems which appear on headgear and buttons. Also included are charts showing German pronunciation and a comparison of ratings (ranks) in U.S. and German navies.
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. Army. Services of Supply. Special Service Division.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Catafighters.
A series of 5 cm. boxes with drawings and captions below in rows of 4 across and 6 down. Drawings are comic book style with text explanations written below each box. The banner at the top has "RN" and "RAF" printed on either side of the title. Poster has red, black, and blue printing on white background.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
British Information Services.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
What Britain puts in the common pool.
Color pictograph showing military supplies and facilities produced by Britain. In the center is an outline map of Britain, with 10 arrows around it, each pointing to a picture of a product or facility: tanks, boats, port and ship repair facilities and fueling, food, airfields, clothing and uniforms, shipping, hospitals and medical facilities, warships and aircraft.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Doing all you can, brother?" : buy war bonds.
Color poster shows a close-up of a soldier with a bandaged head and a blood-stained khaki uniform. He has light-colored hair and blue eyes. In the background, a barren field lies scattered with broken or abandoned machinery.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Sloan, Robert Smullyan, b. 1915.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gas.
This poster features six individual cartoon panels illustrating the identification of various poisonous gases, including lewisite, mustard, tear, phosgene and clorpicrin. The text is printed in red and black. The cartoons are gray and black line drawings with selective fill of pink and red.
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pour le retour, souscrivez : 4e Emprunt National, Crédit Foncier d'Algérie et de Tunisie, 43, rue Cambon, Paris.
Lithograph of a Mediterranean sea port. Numerous ships and boats are in the water. In the foreground are people standing along a sea wall, in traditional white Tunisian clothing, waving at a crowd of people on a large ship. In the background is a large city. Several airplanes are seen flying overhead.
Date:
1918
Creator:
R. P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Give your good books to our fighting men : the books you'd like to keep are the good ones to give.
Poster is printed in burnt sienna color. At the lower right corner are shown the heads and shoulders of three military men in uniform. In the upper left corner are hands holding books. A stream of books falls from the hands toward the men.
Date:
1943
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
For liberty, civilization, and humanity.
Poster of a soldier playing a bugle on a hill, standing in front of a U.S. flag. In the distant background on the right, a ship is sinking. The image of the bugler is adapted from an original sculpture by Edoardo Cammilli.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Cittadino (New York, N.Y.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The guys who don't say much.
Black & white poster. At left is an article describing the "average man". At right is a photograph of a man wearing a plaid shirt and plaid jacket, overalls, a cap, and smoking a pipe. Below the photo are "Questions and Answers about Bonds and Stamps".
Date:
[1942..1945]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Girl Scouts : volunteers for victory.
A black and white photo of a Girl Scout using the three-finger Scout Sign (salute), standing next to a U.S. flag. She wears a Girl Scout uniform and hat. The Girl Scout Promise appears below the picture: "On my honor I will try: To do my duty to God and my country, To help other people at all times, To obey the Girl Scout Laws." The Girl Scout trefoil design (insignia) appears as a watermark-style design under this text.
Date:
1942
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library