Resource Type

Save a loaf a week: help win the war.

Illustration in orange and black tones. A hand uses a knife to cut a loaf of bread.
Date: 1917
Creator: Cooper, F. G., b. 1883
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wanted : red blooded men for immediate service over-seas.

All lettered poster. The title is white letters in red square. The extended text is in red and white on blue.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Et maintenant tressons des couronnes pour ceux que nous attendons et aussi pour ceux qui ne reviendront plus.

Drawing of two women, one dressed in the traditional shawl and bonnet of the Lorraine region of France, and the other dressed in Alsatian traditional dress and black headdress ("coiffe alsacienne"). They are holding red flowers and flower rings. A cathedral can be seen in the distant background. (Alsace-Lorraine was a part of France ceded to the German Empire in 1871. It was reverted to France at the end of the First World War.)
Date: unknown
Creator: Abel-Truchet, Louis, 1857-1918.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Students ... set the pace ... unanimous [giving] for universal service : clear over the first day.

All-lettered poster promoting a funding drive by the United War Work Campaign. Blue text on white paper.
Date: 1918
Creator: United War Work Campaign, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Urgent notice : 1. Fighting men and materials are being shifted ...

All lettered poster, black text on orange background. The poster urges the reader not to discuss military information because the Japanese are obtaining such information. At the bottom are the signatures of military officials and J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI.
Date: 1945
Creator: United States. War Department.
System: The UNT Digital Library

"We'll lick 'em-- just give us the metal!"

A smiling soldier, with a bloody bandage on his right arm, holds a rifle with bayonet in one hand and a tattered Japanese flag in the other.
Date: 1943
Creator: McLeod, Ronald, 1897-1977.
System: The UNT Digital Library

You are one of 50,000,000 Americans who must fill out an income tax return by March 15 : do it now! ....

All lettered poster in red, white, and blue tones, urging people to prepare to file their income tax forms on time.
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Dept. of the Treasury.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fight world famine : enroll in the Boys' Working Reserve.

A young man or boy stands next to a haystack, fighting off vultures with a pitch fork. He wears the uniform of the U.S. Boys' Working Reserve.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States Boys' Working Reserve.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Your ore packs a punch!

Two miners listen to the radio. One miner rests his helmet on top of the radio. He rejoices as the radio announces a successful attack by U.S. tanks against the Nazi forces.
Date: 1943
Creator: Kirby, Rollin, 1875-1952
System: The UNT Digital Library

So he can fight!

On the left side of poster is a large, orange, image of a combat soldier carrying a rifle. In much smaller scale in the foreground is a gray image of the back of a WAAC, waving at the soldier. In the center of the poster is text describing the contributions of women in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. On the right side and bottom center are black & white photographs showing WAAC's performing various tasks. In the lower right corner is an unsigned cartoon showing a line of combat soldiers fording a river with their rifles held over their heads. The last soldier in line is a WAAC carrying her typewriter over her head.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ours -- to fight for : freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.

A large color poster of four Norman Rockwell paintings that depict four American freedoms. In clockwise order, top to bottom, the images are: a man standing up to speak at a town meeting; people of different faiths praying together; a large Thanksgiving feast; and a couple tucking two small children into bed.
Date: 1943
Creator: Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Save freedom of speech : buy war bonds.

A man stands to speak at a town meeting. A folded document is in his pocket. He wears a worn bomber jacket and a flannel shirt; sitting all around him are men in suits.
Date: 1943
Creator: Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978.
System: The UNT Digital Library

The state of this nation is good ....

Quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt. The poster is a solid dark blue color with the quote in white script lettering under an image of a flying bald eagle clenching an olive branch and arrows on a shield with U.S. flag motif.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
System: The UNT Digital Library

He's a "fighting fool"-- give him the best you've got! : more production!

Drawing of a soldier standing in uniform and helmet, and carrying a rifle. It appears to be drawn with red conte crayon.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. War Production Board.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Something money can't buy-- : your campaign ribbons.

A man and woman stand in front of a wall poster showing military service ribbons. They each wear civilian service ribbons. A color inset in the foreground shows each civilian service award ribbon in detail.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Every man woman and child is a partner"

A black and white image of a crowd of men and women heading off to work. In a red arrow in large white letters is the quote from President Roosevelt. In a blue box there are figures for war materials in 1942.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. War Production Board.
System: The UNT Digital Library

An open letter to the unconquerable Poles.

A poem praising the Poles for defying the Nazis in World War II. The text of the poem is framed by a painting depicting a man and woman surrounded by rubble and looking toward the sky. A tattered Polish flag lies among the ruins. In the distance, a burst of sunlight breaks through dark clouds.
Date: unknown
Creator: Henry, Everett. & Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965
System: The UNT Digital Library

An open letter to the unconquerable Czechoslovaks.

A poem praising the Czechoslovakians for defying the Nazis in World War II. Framing the poem is a painting showing the white, red, and blue flag of Czechoslovakia, with a man's face depicted in the left side of the flag in a blue triangle. An image of the double-tailed lion from the Czech heraldic emblem is superimposed over the flag on the right side. A war zone appears along the lower edge below the poem.
Date: unknown
Creator: Saalburg, Allen Russell, 1899-1987. & Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965
System: The UNT Digital Library

Kinda give it your personal attention, will you? : more production.

Color poster in black, white, and green. Image of a smiling soldier (a sergeant) wearing a helmet, lying prone in the grass. He holds a rifle in one hand and wipes his brow with the other. On the ground near the rifle are fired shells.
Date: 1942
Creator: Roese, Herbert
System: The UNT Digital Library

We'll take care of the Rising Sun : you take care of rising prices ....

A G.I., with leaves on his helmet and gun strapped to his back, gives a "thumbs-up." A beach and palm trees are in the background.
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Office of Economic Stabilization.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Women-- our wounded need your care! : you can serve as medical technicians, surgical technicians, and other Army hospital assignments : join a hospital company ... Women's Army Corps.

Color illustration of a woman in a blue uniform dress and brown shoes, carrying a silver tray with a white cloth draped over it. Behind her are faint images of hospital beds. At right is a small image of two silver discs, one showing the head of Pallas Athene and the other showing a caduceus.
Date: 1945
Creator: United States. Army.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pour la France, versez votre or : l'or combat pour la victoire.

A frightened German soldier holding a rifle in both hands is forced down onto one knee by the weight of a giant French coin which has landed on his arm. On the coin is a bas-relief of a rooster which appears to be escaping the surface of the coin to attack the soldier. Imprinted on the coin is the text: "LIBERTE - EGALITE - FRATERNITE" and "1915".
Date: 1915
Creator: Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Give war bonds: the present with a future.

Color poster shows a stylized image of a Christmas tree decorated with war bonds and stamp-filled cones as ornaments. There are gift packages around its base.
Date: 1943
Creator: Snider, Don
System: The UNT Digital Library

This man is your friend : Englishman : he fights for freedom.

Photograph of a smiling English soldier in uniform and helmet and carrying a rifle.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
System: The UNT Digital Library