American Library Association, Library War Service

Poster showing numerous scenes of activities sponsored by the American Library Association Library War Service, including interiors and exteriors of facilities, and military personnel reading and studying.
Date: 1918
Creator: American Library Association.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Americans all!: Victory Liberty Loan.

Painting of a woman in a yellow gown, with left arm raised holding a laurel wreath. With her right hand she grasps a large U.S. flag which is hanging behind her.
Date: 1919
Creator: Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952
System: The UNT Digital Library

And they thought we couldn't fight: Victory Liberty Loan.

Color illustration of a wounded yet smiling soldier. His uniform sleeves are tattered, and he is bloodied and bandaged; he wears a helmet and carries three enemy helmets in his hands, in addition to his rifle. A barbed wire fence and the ruins of a building can be seen in the background.
Date: 1919
Creator: Forsythe, Vic, 1885-1962
System: The UNT Digital Library

Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy U.S. government bonds : Third Liberty Loan.

Poster is mainly black text with a red border. Centered at top is a design consisting of an eagle, U.S. flags, and cannons. Centered at the bottom is a blue shield with white text: "U.S. TREASURY WILL PAY INTEREST EVERY SIX MONTHS".
Date: unknown
Creator: Stern
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

Building for health : Bureau of Social Education, Y.W.C.A.

Color poster of a woman holding an infant. The woman has dark hair worn in a bun, and wears a long yellow dress. In the background is a blue inverted triangle (YWCA symbol) with a caduceus (medical symbol) and book.
Date: 1918
Creator: Page, Marie Danforth, 1869-1940.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Buy Liberty Bonds.

Color poster with picture frame drawn as border. Profile of a bust of Abraham Lincoln is in center.
Date: 1918
Creator: United States. Department of the Treasury. Publicity Bureau.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cardinal Mercier has appealed to the Food Administration for more food for starving millions.

A color image of Cardinal Mercier's head and shoulders is centered on the top half of the poster. He has gray hair and blue eyes, and wears a red garment with a white collar. The bottom half of the poster is all text.
Date: 1918
Creator: Illian, George, 1894-1932
System: The UNT Digital Library

Defeat the Kaiser and his U-boats : victory depends on which fails first, food or frightfulness : eat less wheat.

In the foreground is the profile of Kaiser Wilhelm II wearing a German helmet. His face is colored green. In the background is a u-boat in the water; farther in the distance is a sinking ship with smoke rising from it. The sky is colored orange and the orange sky is reflected on the surface of the water. Centered at the bottom of the poster is a circular seal: a shield with a U.S. flag motif, surrounded by wheat stalks. (This is a seal of the U.S. Food Administration.)
Date: unknown
Creator: Steele.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Eat more corn, oats and rye products-- ... : eat less wheat, meat, sugar and fats, to save for the Army and our allies.

Color poster depicts a variety of foods on a table: a whole fish on a plate, a bowl of fruit, vegetables, a basket of corn, poultry, and a loaf of bread. The table is brown and the poster background is green.
Date: 1917
Creator: Britton, L. N.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Feed a fighter : eat only what you need-- waste nothing-- that he and his family may have enough.

Charcoal drawing of a soldier sitting in a trench, drinking out of a cup. Other soldiers can be seen in the background. At the top right corner of the poster is the round seal of the U.S. Food Administration (shield with flag motif surrounded by wheat stalks).
Date: 1918
Creator: Morgan, Wallace.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fight or buy bonds : Third Liberty Loan.

Color poster depicts a woman dressed in a white gown and holding a U.S. flag in the air. Troops march in the background, also carrying a U.S. flag.
Date: 1917~
Creator: Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952
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

"Good bye, Dad, I'm off to fight for Old Glory, you buy U.S. gov't bonds" : Third Liberty Loan.

Color illustration of a young man, in uniform holding a rifle, shaking the hand of an elderly man with white hair and beard wearing matching gray pants and vest and a white shirt with a bow tie. There is a landscape of farms in the distance. There is a blue border around the picture.
Date: 1917~
Creator: Harris, Lawrence S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Halt the Hun! : buy U.S. government bonds, Third Liberty Loan.

Drawing of an Allied Forces soldier pushing a German soldier away from a frightened woman who is holding a small child in her lap. The German soldier has blood on his hands. Red flames rise from the ground in the background.
Date: 1918
Creator: Raleigh, Henry Patrick, 1880-1945
System: The UNT Digital Library

Help our town win this flag, 4th Liberty Loan honor roll of subscribers

Poster showing flag of four vertical blue stripes on a white ground with a wide red border, with spaces below numbered 1 to 100 to record names of bond purchasers.
Date: 1918
Creator: United States. Department of the Treasury. Publicity Bureau.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Keep him free, buy war savings stamps issued by the United States Treasury Dept.

American eagle with war planes taking off from its nest.
Date: 1918
Creator: Bull, Charles Livingston, 1874-1932.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Keep it coming ... : waste nothing.

Color poster shows a convoy of green food-supply trucks driving through snow. A soldier in a long coat and helmet appears to be directing the trucks. In the lower left corner is the seal of the U.S. Food Administration.
Date: 1918
Creator: Illian, George, 1894-1932
System: The UNT Digital Library

My daddy bought me a government bond of the Third Liberty Loan, did yours?

A smiling young blonde girl in a white dress and red hair bow clutches a government bond.
Date: 1918
Creator: United States. Department of the Treasury. Publicity Bureau.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Over the top for you : buy U.S. gov't bonds, Third Liberty Loan.

A soldier in a combat uniform and helmet appears to be climbing a hill while grasping a large U.S. flag on a pole. His mouth is open as if he is shouting.
Date: 1918
Creator: Riesenberg, Sidney H.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pershing's crusaders.

In the foreground is an image of General Pershing on horseback, leading his troops. Two soldiers behind him hold flags: a U.S. flag and a red flag with a gold emblem. Hovering in the background is a hazy image of medieval crusaders on white horses, carrying heart-shaped shields with cross images on them.
Date: 1918~
Creator: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Remember! the flag of liberty, support it! : buy U.S. government bonds, 3rd. Liberty Loan.

A group of people stand in front of the American flag. A ship is in the background.
Date: 1918
Creator: United States. Department of the Treasury. Publicity Bureau.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ring it again : buy U.S. gov't bonds : Third Liberty Loan.

A crowd of American colonial-era people point at the Liberty Bell ringing out from the tower of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. In the upper left area of the poster is a large close-up picture of the Liberty Bell.
Date: 1917
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Save--buy--for victory, W.S.S. for sale here : war savings stamps issued by the United States Government

All-text poster promotes purchase of war savings stamps.
Date: 1917
Creator: United States. Dept. of the Treasury. National War Savings Committee.
System: The UNT Digital Library