Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; Savings stamps--United States; United States. Army--Job descriptions; United States. Navy--Job descriptions; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War,...
Color poster designed in the pattern of a checkerboard with one board square showing a military item and an accompanying square showing the cost in savings bonds or savings stamps to purchase that military item, with the words "Do you part to win...
United States Employment Service; War posters, American; Women; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster created from a 1942 color photograph taken by Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993) showing an attractive young married woman (note prominently displayed wedding ring) working on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F U.S. Navy bomber at the...
Knights of Columbus; National Catholic War Council (U.S.); United War Work Campaign, Inc.; War posters, American; World War, 1914-1918--Posters--United States;
Color poster sponsored by the National Catholic War Council and Knights of Columbus for the United War Work Campaign during the week of November 11, 1918. The poster features a retired uniformed officer wearing a Knights of Columbus (KC) armband...
United States. Dept. of the Treasury; United States. Office of Education; United States. War Savings Staff; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of three youngsters who have collected items for their local Schools at War Program. The full caption for this poster reads: "We are ready : What about you? Join the Schools at War Program sponsored by the War Savings Staff of the U.S....
Allied Powers (1919- ); Soldiers--Soviet Union; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Maps; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Maps; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--New Guinea--Maps; World War,...
Two color posters on one sheet: the Newsmap (war fronts maps) for February 1, 1943 (for week of January 22 to January 29) is on the obverse side; and photographs and descriptions of the Soviet infantry and its weaponry are on the reverse side....
Soldiers--United States; United States Employment Service; United States. War Manpower Commission; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by Al Moore that shows a United States soldier looking out at the viewer and saying, as shown in the words above, "-- and back us up with a war job!" This poster encourages those who did not enter the armed forces to take a war job,...
War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by George Rapp that shows a woman working with a piece of machinery, with a caption positioned to the right of her head that reads "I've found the job where I fit best." Her hair is tied up in a kerchief, and she is wearing a work...
United States Employment Service; United States. War Manpower Commission; V-mail; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by Lawrence Nelson Wiibur (1897-1988) that shows an attractive young woman clutching V-mail messages to her chest and looking longingly in the distance, with the words "Longing won't bring him back sooner... get a war job!" positioned...
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster by James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) that shows the character of Uncle Sam pointing a finger at the viewer and saying "I need your skill in a WAR JOB!" Below this are the words "If you know one of these trades and are not now in real...
Broadsides; Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; May, Charles Augustus; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Political ballads and songs; Randall, James Ryder,...
Document containing the broadside entitled "Maryland" from the poem "Maryland, My Maryland" written by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimorean living in Louisiana at the start of the Civil War. According to an account published in the "The [Baltimore]...
Canning and preserving--United States; Food conservation--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster showing a canning jar labeled "Can all you can" lying in front of several fresh fruits and vegetables. Below the image are the words "It's a real war job!" This poster encourages Americans to preserve their own fruits and vegetables by...
American Nurses Association. Nursing Information Bureau; Patriotism; Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); United States. Federal Security Agency; United States. Public Health Service; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female;...
Color poster showing the portrait of an attractive young woman proudly receiving a white nurse's cap most likely from the hands of Uncle Sam (note stars and strips on sleeves), with the words "become a nurse : your country needs you" emblazoned...
Book burning; Nazis; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by S. (Steve) Broder (1906-1992) that shows Nazis throwing books into a blazing fire, with the message meant for the people of the United States emblazoned below this image: "Books are weapons in the war of ideas." (This poster depicts...
Agriculture--United States; United States Employment Service; United States. Extension Service; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War...
Color poster by Morgan Douglas that shows a man holding a pitch fork and standing behind a woman carrying a basket full of fresh vegetables, both of whom are dressed in bib-and-brace overalls and straw hats. In the sky above their heads are the...
Liberty; Soldiers--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster that juxtaposes American soldiers from the war for independence with American soldiers participating in World War II. This is one of the few posters that relates the American Revolution and World War II as fights for freedom. Printed...
Book burning; Davis, Elmer Holmes, 1890-1958; Nazis; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Philippines; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster that makes use of the text of a letter by Elmer Holmes Davis (1890-1958), Director, Office of War Information, to the American people that explains how one of the first acts of the Japanese in the Philippines--burning of the American...
Nurses--Recruiting--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Casualties; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;
Color poster that shows a young woman dressed in a nurse's uniform standing over a male patient recuperating in bed, with the words "Save his life... and find your own" set in type in the background behind her. Used to recruit nurses during World...
World War, 1939-1945; Savings bonds; Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971; Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957; Sapieha, Virgilia, 1904-1966;
Advertisement for a war bond rally held at Maryland Casualty Auditorium in Baltimore, MD on December 14, 1943. Speakers included authors Ogden Nash (as Master of Ceremonies), Christopher Morley, and Princess Paul Sapieha.
Parachutes; Sewing; Airplane factories--Maryland--Baltimore; African American women employees--Maryland--Baltimore; World War, 1939-1945
Photograph of women workers sewing silk into parachutes for the United States armed forces during World War II at the aircraft factory of an Eastern navy yard in Baltimore, Maryland. The plant was most likely that of either the Glenn L. Martin...
British War Relief Society (U.S.); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Children--Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Carleton F. McCutcheon that features a brother and sister holding each other as they stand amidst the rubble of a destroyed brick building, with a transparent British flag hanging over the ruins. Emblazoned in red on a white border...
