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World War Two Collection
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116
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106
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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
The four freedoms : message to the 77th Congress -- January 6, 1941.
The Four Freedoms, printed in red and black, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature at the bottom. Beneath this is a border of red with white stars.
Date:
1941
Creator:
United States. Federal Security Agency.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
For home and country : Victory Liberty Loan.
Color image of a happy military family. A soldier holds his young son in one arm while embracing his wife with the other. A helmet hangs on a long cord around the soldier's neck. The child smiles and embraces the soldier while the wife admires a medal attached to the soldier's uniform.
Date:
1918
Creator:
Orr, Alfred Everitt, 1886-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
We can--we will--we must!--Franklin D. Roosevelt: buy U.S. war savings bonds & stamps now.
Image of a flying U.S. flag on a blue and white background surrounded by a gray border. Inset at left contains a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt with a small image of the Concord Minute Man statue.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Department of the Treasury.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The five Sullivan brothers, "missing in action" off the Solomons : they did their part.
Black & white photograph of the five Sullivan brothers in U.S. Navy uniforms, standing behind a bulkhead door, with blue service stars above each head. Red border. From left to right: Joseph Eugene Sullivan, Francis Henry Sullivan, Albert Leo Sullivan, Madison Abel Sullivan, and George Thomas Sullivan.
Date:
1943
Creator:
United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
United we are strong : united we will win.
Artillery gun barrels decorated with the flags of the Allies, all firing in unison.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Koerner, Henry.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Follow me! : men 18-19, these can be yours-- apply now at any U.S. Army recruiting and induction station.
Black & white photograph on a yellow background. A soldier climbs a hill, his arm raised as if to wave a group onward. At right is an inset titled, "These can be yours". It shows the insignia and monthly base pay for each Army grade (rank).
Date:
[1939..1945]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Grodowski is my name."
A neatly-dressed man looks at the viewer as he steps up into a tractor. To the left of the photo there is an extended text where he describes himself as an American son of immigrants "born on the other side" and tells of his family's dream to live in peace and prosperity. At the bottom of the poster is a box that lists the financiers of the advertisement.
Date:
1941~/1942~
Creator:
United States. Defense Savings Staff.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
This is the enemy.
Stylized caricature of a scowling German soldier. There is a swastika on his cap. He wears a monocle in one eye; in the monocle is a reflection of a person hanging on a gallows.
Date:
1943~
Creator:
Koehler, Karl. & Ancona, Victor.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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