Espionage; Shipping; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Stevan Dohanos (1907-1994) that shows a sinking American cargo ship with seamen in the water swimming toward life boats full of their fellow seafarers, with the words "Loose talk can cost lives" emblazoned in banners below the...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; Tōjō, Hideki, 1884-1948--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by O. (Otto) Soglow (1900-1975) that makes use of three cartoon figures, a rather puzzled-looking American gentleman (center) and the large ears and partial faces of Adolph Hitler (left) and Hideki Tōjō (right) as they attentively...
Espionage; Sailors--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by John Falter (John Philip Falter; 1910-1982) that shows a young American sailor in the arms of a seductive young woman, with the words "Sailor beware!" emblazoned above the image and the words "Loose talk can cost lives" displayed...
Espionage; Soldiers--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Albert Dorne (1904-1965) that shows only the hand of a fallen soldier lying palm up as he reaches for the stock of his rifle lying under a barbed-wire fence. Emblazoned to the right of this image are the words "Somebody blabbed"...
Espionage; Sabotage; United States. Army--Parachute troops; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Casualties; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Herb (Herbert Morton) Stoops (1888-1948) that shows a paratrooper, in full combat gear and still hanging from his parachute, shot dead, as his boots scrape the ground. In the background are the parachutes of other soldiers coming...
Espionage; Uncle Sam (Symbolic character); War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Dal (Delorma Bostwick) Holcomb (1901-1978) that shows the cartoon character of a derby-clad gentleman whose mouth is covered by Uncle Sam's hand, with the word "Quiet!" printed at the man's eye level and the words "Loose talk can...
Fund raising; Savings bonds--United States; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of a woman standing in front of the smoking, bombed out ruins of a house or building. The woman's arms are crossed in front of her chest and she is crying. The full caption for this poster reads as follows: "...and we talk about...
Espionage; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by O. Soglow (Otto Soglow, 1900-1975) that shows the cartoon character of a serviceman with buttons over his mouth in keeping with the text above his head reading "Button your lip! Loose talk can cost lives." Below the text in the...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Holmgren (R. John Holmgren, 1897-1963) that shows a soldier and a young woman sitting on a park bench talking while a man resembling Adolph Hitler is pretending to read a newspaper while listening in on their conversation. The text...
Children of military personnel; Espionage; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by DHS (believed to be Dorothy Hope Smith, 1895-1955) that shows a sad-looking young girl clutching a picture of her serviceman father, with the text positioned below reading "Don't kill her daddy with careless talk." Below this...
Espionage; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Caricatures and cartoons; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster of two men talking as they sit at a bar with their glasses of beer, with a transparent, larger-than-life image of Adolf Hitler behind and leaning just over their shoulders. Hitler is smiling as if he is listening in on the their...
Espionage; Nazis; Soldiers; Swastikas; United States. Army; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) that shows a Nazi soldier holding a rifle and wearing a swastika armband, guarding a captured American soldier behind the barbed wire fence of a prison camp. Above the American soldier's head are the...
Fire resistant materials; Fireproofing; Fires--Maryland--Baltimore; Great Fire, Baltimore, Md., 1904;
Magazine 88 pages long that contains an editorial and four articles about the Baltimore fire of February 7and 8, 1904. This March 1904 issue focuses on the aftermath of the fire, what lessons were learned, and how the fireproofing technology of the...
Broadsides; Confederate States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; War poetry, American;
Document containing the broadside entitled "An Appeal to the South" and signed by "H.", "A Daughter of Dixie." Printed in Baltimore during the Civil War, this broadside calls on Southerners to take up arms and defend themselves against the tyranny...
Allen, William J.; Blacksmithing; Broadsides; Nostalgia; Songs;
Document containing the broadside entitled "The Old Village Blacksmith Shop" from a song written by William J. Allen. This broadside tells what it felt like to be a boy in the local blacksmith's shop. The speaker recalls with nostalgia how he and...
Espionage; War posters, American; World War, 1939-1945--Posters--United States;
Color poster by Howard Scott (1902-1983) that shows a man's face with two strips of white tape placed across his mouth in an X pattern and the words "closed for the duration" appearing above his head. Printed below his head are the words that give...
Bible and evolution; Creationism; Dayton (Tenn.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956; Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc.--Press coverage--Maryland--Baltimore;
The first carbon page of his typescript for "The Tennessee Circus", one of the columns H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken wrote for the Evening Sun about the proceedings in Dayton, Tennessee before he left to cover the Scopes trial. While some readers...
