Resource Type

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

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

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

Be a cadet nurse : the girl with a future.

Color poster of two women in cadet nurse uniforms (probably two views of the same woman). The woman on the left wears a military-style uniform with blue jacket and cap. The woman on the right wears a white nurse's uniform with a nurse's cap. Both women are wearing cadet nurse shoulder patches and caduceus (medical symbol) pins.
Date: 1944
Creator: Whitcomb, Jon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps : see your principal.

The main part of the poster is a large black-and white photograph of the faces of a smiling teenage girl and boy. The lower part of the poster is a green-tinted photograph of young volunteers harvesting potatoes. A farmer on a mule- or horse-drawn farm machine can be seen in the background. The sky in the background is colored blue.
Date: 1943
Creator: National Victory Farm Volunteers (U.S.)
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

Be with him at every mail call : V-mail is private, reliable, patriotic.

Poster shows a a smiling young woman in a pink blouse, sitting at a table or desk, writing a letter. Her image is superimposed on a monochromatic background picture of soldiers in the field receiving mail.
Date: 1945
Creator: Hiller, Lejaren A., 1880-1969
System: The UNT Digital Library

Because somebody talked!

Color poster shows a sad cocker spaniel with its head resting on sailor's collar on back of a blue chair. On the wall behind the chair hangs a "Gold Star" service flag with a red border, white center and yellow star in the middle. A gold star on a service flag signifies a family member who has died in war.
Date: 1944
Creator: Heyman, Wesley
System: The UNT Digital Library

Because somebody talked!

Color poster shows a sad cocker spaniel with its head resting on sailor's collar on back of a blue chair. On the wall behind the chair hangs a "Gold Star" service flag with a red border, white center, and yellow star in the middle. A gold star on a service flag signifies a family member who has died in war.
Date: 1944
Creator: Heyman, Wesley
System: The UNT Digital Library

Become a nurse : your country needs you.

Color poster of a young woman receiving her nursing cap. A male (only the hands and sleeves are shown) is placing it on her head. He wears blue sleeves with a stars-and-stripes motif on the cuffs. The young woman wears a blue cotton uniform with a white collar, cuffs, and pocket handkerchief. The model for this poster is Weslee Wootten D'Audney.
Date: 1942
Creator: American Nurses Association. Nursing Information Bureau.
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

Binary Phase Diagrams of Transition Elements

Chart issued by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards illustrating the systematic relationships between phase diagrams of transition elements. This chart includes color illustrations.
Date: May 1980
Creator: Waterstrat, Richard M.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Biogeochemical Mechanisms Controlling Reduced Radionuclide Particle Properties and Stability

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Date: April 19, 2007
Creator: Marshall, M.J.; Beliaev, A.S.; Fredrickson, J.K. & Zachara, J.M
System: The UNT Digital Library

A blow to the Axis, more lumber for the Army.

A shirtless man uses an axe to chop down a tree. He wears a hat and blue jeans, with a red bandana in his back pocket.
Date: 1943
Creator: Von Schmidt, Harold, 1893-1982
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bonds or bondage : everybody--every pay day 10%.

Image of a man in cap and overalls, with outstretched arms and legs. In one hand he holds a U.S. flag; his other hand and leg are chained to a swastika-inscribed ball. One side of his face smiles; the other side is weary. The poster background is also split in two halves: On the left is a landscape of farm lands, industrial smoke stacks, and skyscrapers; on the right is a dark barren landscape.
Date: 1941/1942?
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breast Milk every ounce counts

Poster of a woman wearing a lab coat with the text, "As a doctor i know breastfeeding is the healthiest thing you can do for your baby. As a mother i feel it is the most beautiful." printed at the top of the poster.
Date: May 2015
Creator: Texas. Bureau of WIC Nutrition.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Breastmilk: Baby's First Immunization

A bi-lingual poster showing the recommended immunization schedule for children and how breastfeeding means immunizations are not required till later.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Bureau of WIC Nutrition.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Breastmilk: Baby's First Immunization, 2011

Image with short graphs describing the benefits of immunization by maternal breastmilk feeding for infants.
Date: November 2011
Creator: Texas. Bureau of WIC Nutrition.
System: The Portal to Texas History

A British anti-aircraft battery in action. More than 590 German raiders have been destroyed by anti-aircraft fire over Britain.

An image of soldiers firing large anti-aircraft guns into the sky.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gardner, James, 1907-1995.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A British "Blenheim" bomber of the Coastal Command aids a British destroyer in smashing a German submarine.

Poster is a pastel drawing of an aircraft bombing a submarine. A British ship is shown behind the bombed submarine, and other ships can be seen in the distance.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

British bombers have carried out over 1,600 raids on Germany (up to May, 1941)

Color poster is a stylized drawing of aircraft in battle. Four bomber planes are depicted in camouflage. A large explosion is shown at the upper left corner of the picture.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

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

British tanks hurled Italy out of Abyssinia, and in Libya completely wrecked Axis plans of conquest.

Color illustration of tanks driving across a desert. The ground and sky are depicted in yellow and orange tones.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brotherhood Week, February 19th to 28th, 1943.

All-lettered poster is beige with brown letters. The text is a message from President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the importance of Brotherhood Week during wartime in 1943.
Date: 1943
Creator: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
System: The UNT Digital Library