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15 June 1860
Houston, Sam (1793-1863)
Election Proclamation by the Governor! [elections before the Civil War]
Setting Texas elections just before the Civil War.
GLC04945
1864
War Democratic State Committee (1864)
Watch words for War Democrats!
Published by pro-war, pro-Union Democrats in New York. Quotes a speech made by Peter Cooper 20 years ago advocating Union principles. Reprints an article from a Catholic newspaper titled condemning slavery and an article from the impartial Boston...
GLC01703
2 April 1917
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
A message calling for war with the imperial German government in defense of American rights
Subtitled "Delivered by President Woodrow Wilson to the Congress of the United States of America on Monday, April the Second, in the year nineteen hundred seventeen."
GLC03621
1862
Wade, Benjamin F. (1800-1878)
Conduct of the war
Senate report from the "joint committee on the conduct of the present war" regarding Confederate indiscretions at Manassas. Committee was directed to "Collect evidence with regard to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Manassas, of the remains...
GLC00267.234
1943
United States. War Savings Staff.
For freedom's sake/buy war bonds
WSS 789-A. OWI - 35. Government Printing Office # O-514158. A small color poster by artist John Atherton (1900-1952) promoting war bonds. In the foreground is an image of the Concord Minute Man statue (a sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Concord...
GLC09520.28
1945
United States. War Finance Division.
7th war loan/now all together
Government Printing Office. Small color poster promoting the 7th War Loan. The painting by C. C. Beall is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Associated Press photographer, Joe Rosenthal, of the second American flag raising by U.S...
GLC09520.34
Circa 1940-1945
Humphrey, Walter Beach
American Junior Red Cross
GLC09520.01
Circa 1941-1945
American junior red cross
GLC09520.06
1918
United States Food Administration.
Food will win the war
Color poster by Charles E. Chambers of people standing on a boat or shoreline at New York Harbor. They appear to be European immigrants. In the foreground, a man appears to be pleading with a woman holding a basket of food. In the background can be...
GLC09522
1810
Fulton, Robert (1765-1815)
Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions
The book illustrates different methods of torpedo and submarine defense, that Robert Fulton invented himself. Contains 5 illustrations.
GLC03107.05318
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