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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
814
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351
UNT Libraries Special Collections
346
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154
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149
UNT Center for Psychosocial Health Research
94
UNT College of Information
68
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48
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17
Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
13
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World War Two Collection
609
World War Poster Collection
501
UNT Scholarly Works
379
Local / Independent Music Initiative of Texas
304
World War Two Newsmaps
212
UNT Undergraduate Student Works
150
LGBT Collections
125
Student Demonstration Poster Collection
116
Turtle Creek Chorale Collection (The Dallas Way)
106
World War One Collection
67
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Country
States
Decade
Month
America's answer! : production.
Drawing of a gloved hand holding a gray wrench, turning the "o" in the word "production" which is shaped like a bolt.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Carlu, Jean.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
United : the United Nations fight for freedom.
Flags of the member nations of the United Nations wave amidst smoke of a bombardment, with military airplanes, ships and tanks in background.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Ragan, Leslie Darrell, b. 1897
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The battle-wise infantryman -- is careful of what he says or writes : how about you?
Color poster of head and shoulders of a helmeted Army soldier holding a rifle and looking toward the viewer. The background is a green color.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Schlaikjer, Jes Wilhelm, 1897-1982
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Going our way? : be a Victory Farm Volunteer of the U.S. Crop Corps.
Color poster shows an adolescent boy and girl. Both are smiling and neatly dressed. The boy carries farm tools. He has red hair and freckles and wears a windowpane-plaid blue shirt. The girl's blond hair is coiffed and she wears a red dress or blouse. A "Craftsman" brand name mark can be seen on the pitchfork carried by the boy.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Bruehl, Anton, 1900-1982.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Stamp 'em out! : beat your promise.
Color poster shows a boot about to stomp on two snakes and a frog with caricatured faces. The pant leg is labeled "You and I". The snakes represent Adolf Hitler and Japan; the frog represents Benito Mussolini.
Date:
[1942..1945]
Creator:
Ryling?
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Keep 'em flying! : presented by the United States Army Recruiting Service.
An optical illusion. From far away, the image looks like a portrait of Uncle Sam. A close-up view reveals a grouping of images depicting the war effort, including a soldier, a sailor, a pilot, a smelter worker, a scientist, a nurse, a farmer, factories with smokestacks, a battleship, the U.S. Capitol building, and U.S. flags. In the lower left corner is the text of a poem by Jack Childs.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Beall, C. C. (Cecil Calvert), 1892-1967 & Childs, Jack
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Your production : beat your promise.
Illustration of a giant boot about to crush caricatures of Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and a caricatured Japanese soldier (probably representing Hideki Tojo).
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
7th War Loan: now--all together.
Small color poster promoting the 7th War Loan. The painting by C. C. Beall is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Associated Press photographer, Joe Rosenthal, of the second American flag raising by U.S. Marines on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Beall, C. C. (Cecil Calvert), 1892-1967
System:
The UNT Digital Library
China carries on.
Color poster shows a Chinese soldier walking in a determined manner with a rifle in his hands. Behind him, a small Chinese child stands next to a covered corpse. The child wears a white tunic and pants and a green vest and is barefoot. In the background is a pagoda. Near the right edge of the poster are painted four Chinese characters in red. The characters roughly translate as "Unite Against the Enemy and Rebuild Our Nation."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy, 1889-1977.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Knowledge wins : public library books are free.
A soldier climbs rocks to find stacked books that lead to a shining city in the distance. A rifle and military gear lie on the rocks near his feet. The titles on the spines of the books include: "Farming", "Drafting", "Citizenship", "Building", "Machine Shop Work", "Business", "Seamanship", "Engineering", "Law", "Foreign Trade", "Shipbuilding". The city skyline features tall buildings and smokestacks.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Smith, Dan, 1865-1934.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A battery of Britain's giant coastal-defence guns mounted on railway trucks.
Poster is a color drawing of a large military gun mounted on a train truck. The gun is being fired, and similar guns are seen firing in the distance. Small figures of soldiers can be seen covering their ears. The background is a brightly colored yellow and orange sky.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Davies, Roland.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
America calling : take your place in civilian defense.
Red and white text, with a civil defense insignia in the middle of the poster. Civil Defense insignia is a red "CD" in white triangle on a blue circle.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
I want you for the U.S. Army : enlist now.
Uncle Sam points at the viewer. Half-length portrait of Uncle Sam, pointing at the viewer as part of the United States government effort to recruit soldiers.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Atlantic charter.
All-lettered poster in black & white. Text of the Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Title and heading at top. Two columns of text below in italics.
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
War supplies for Russia-- : a convoy of British and American lorries streams along the Persian route to Russia.
A long convoy of covered trucks travels on a winding road. In the sky overhead are military airplanes, and in the background are an encampment and a large mountain range.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Blake.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Arms for Russia-- a great convoy of British ships escorted by Soviet fighter planes sails into Murmansk Harbour with vital supplies for the Red Army.
A view of the ocean and sky from the deck of a ship flying a British White Ensign (naval ensign) flag. There are other ships in the water and planes flying in the sky. Red Star emblems can be seen on some of the planes. One plane in the distance is crashing toward the ocean.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Blake.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Next! : 6th War Loan.
Large head of a helmeted soldier grimaces at an aerial image of the island nation of Japan. At left is an inset graphic of a blue bomb falling on the Japanese flag.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Bingham, James
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Army : guardian of the colors.
Color image of four soldiers in army uniforms and helmets. Two in center hold flags (one U.S. flag and one with eagle crest). Two outside soldiers hold rifles.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Woodburn, Tom B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"In the strength of great hope we must shoulder our common load" : buy Victory Bonds.
An image of Franklin D. Roosevelt hovers in the sky above a family standing near a grave site. On the horizon line is a cemetery monument (a cross with a wreath) and a view of the the rising sun.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Beall, C. C. (Cecil Calvert), 1892-1967
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An open letter to the unconquerable Dutch.
A poem praising the Dutch for defying the Nazis in World War II. The poem is framed by a painting of a tattered Dutch flag, in front of which are two hands bound with broken chains. Behind the flag is a Dutch landscape, including windmills and the ocean, depicted as a war zone.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Atherton, John, 1900-1952 & Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Wire to the Axis]
A serpent made of metal wears a helmet with a swastika on it. The serpent has long tail, sharp teeth, and a long snout. Smoke billows in background. Metal beams in a "V" formation appear to approach the serpent from the upper left area of the poster.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Screening the Axis.
A mesh metal being stands upright holding a metal sieve through which he strains the metal weaponry out of the enemy. Nazi and Japanese soldiers rain down into the sieve. Above and behind them are dark clouds with lightning striking downward toward the sieve. In the far background is a town.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Till we meet again : buy war bonds.
A smiling soldier in a khaki uniform and cap waves from a porthole.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Till we meet again: buy war bonds.
A smiling soldier in a khaki uniform and cap waves from a porthole.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
System:
The UNT Digital Library