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1943
I'm Counting on You!
OWI No. 78. Government Printing Office # O-534057. Poster depicts Uncle Sam in stars and stripes top hat holds his finger to his mouth in a "hushing" gesture. Illustrated by Leon Helguera.
GLC09520.26
United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
Is your trip necessary?
OWI No. 73. Government Printing Office # O-533555. Black & white photograph of a bus or train car which is overcrowded with passengers. Many of the passengers are servicemen in uniform. The rest are civilian men, women, and children.
GLC09520.27
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
United States. Office of War Information.
Where our men are fighting/our food is fighting
Government Printing Office # O-506016. In the foreground, a crate of food is dropping via parachute. In the background are parachuting men.
GLC09520.29
United/United Nations fight for freedom
OWI No. 79. Government Printing Office # O-534058. Flags of the member nations of the United Nations wave amidst smoke of a bombardment, with military airplanes, ships and tanks in background.
GLC09520.30
Save freedom of worship/buy war bonds
OWI No. 43. Government Printing Office O-510256. From the Four Freedoms series. Based on a painting form the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. Men and women of various races and faiths, including a woman with rosary beads, clasp hands...
GLC09520.31
[1943]
United States. Dept. of the Treasury.
Back the attack/buy war bonds
WSS No. 829. Government Printing Office O-537864. Poster by Georges Schreiber (1904-1977 ) depicting a battle scene. A soldier lies on the ground and holds his military rifle in a ready position. Several parachutes can be seen the sky above and...
GLC09520.33
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
Ours..to fight for/freedom from fear
OWI No. 46. Government Printing Office O-511887. Based on a painting from the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. From the Four Freedoms series. Color poster of a mother and father tucking two children into bed. The father is holding glasses...
GLC09520.35
1942
Special civilian defense insignia
Government Printing Office O-484125
GLC09520.36
Americans will always fight for liberty
OWI No. 26. Government printing Office O-502684. By artist Bernard Perlin (1918- ). U.S. soldiers in helmets and coats march forward on snow, looking back in review at colonial militiamen with rifles, some in torn clothing or bloody bandages. A badge...
GLC09520.37
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
Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991)
Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds
WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.
GLC09524
1805
Wood, Samuel (1760-1844)
Injured Humanity; Being A Representation of What the Unhappy Children of Africa Endure from Those Who Call Themselves Christians
Printed broadside on terrible conditions of slavery and the slave trade in the West Indies. Wood, a prolific Quaker-reformist publisher, printed and sold the broadside out of his office at 362 Pearl Street in New York. Describes the sale, horrendous...
GLC05113
20 December 1860
Charleston Mercury
The Union is dissolved! [Charleston Mercury, Extra Ed.]
Docketed on verso with contemporary and (apparently post-war) note.
GLC02688
circa October 1777
Unknown
Burgoyne's Lamentation, At his surrender to the American army, under General Gates.
Nine stanza poem printed in Boston. Each stanza has eight lines and follows an "aabbccdd" pattern of rhyme. This broadside is the seventh edition. Date is estimated as around the end of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777, but it could be later...
GLC04764.83
1776/03/23
Rejection of Olive Branch Petition by Congress; lets colonists arm vessels
The document sets regulations for arming vessels for defense and privateering. Printed by John Dunlap.
GLC04771
5 September 1774
United States. Continental Congress.
Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia, September the 5th, 1774, to the People of Great Britain.
This document is a long broadside, printed in four columns and addressed to the people of Great Britain. The broadside says: "Know then, that we consider, and do insist that we are, and ought to be, free as our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no...
GLC04774
1775/06/12
Gage, Thomas (1721-1787)
Proclamation of amnesty in Boston to all but Samuel Adams and John Hancock
Authorship attributed to John Burgoyne. With woodcut royal seal of George III at top. Gage writes: "In this exigency of complicated calamities, I avail myself of the last effort within the bounds of my duty, to spare the effusion; to offer, and I...
GLC04781
9 May 1778
Laurens, Henry (1724-1792)
A Proclamation.
This document is a proclamation ordering American ships to act according to an honest code and not take up piratical acts while in American waters. It is a printed broadside approved by Henry Laurens and Charles Thomson as President and Secretary...
GLC04804.02
1776/02/22
Massachusetts
A Proclamation for a general fast [Massachusetts Bay Colony]
Printed by Benjamin Edes. References: Evans 14841, MHS Broadsides 1981.
GLC04817
1777
Freshest Advices from the Northern Army [battle of Freeman's Farm at Saratoga]
Report on the battle of Freeman's Farm at Saratoga which made obvious to Burgoyne that he would have to surrender. References: Bristol B4441; Ford 2055.
GLC04840
5 April 1783
Rivington, James (1724-1802)
The Royal Gazette Extraordinary
Published by James Rivington. Preliminary articles of the Treaty of Paris as found in reports from English newspapers arriving on the ship "Vigilant". Lists John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens as the Commissioners of the United...
GLC04853
22 August 1862
Morgan, John Hunt (1825-1864)
Proclamation. To the inhabitants of Kentucky!
Urging Kentuckians to join the Confederate cause, during his first raid into Kentucky. Proclaims: "Better death in our sacred cause, than a life of slavery! Young men of Kentucky flock to my standard, it will always wave in the path of honor, and...
GLC04892
22 March 1847
Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850)
Proclamation [in Spanish]
Arguing that the army entered Mexico not to wage war on peaceable citizens, but to seek an honorable peace. Taylor therefore expects the citizens to make reparations for encouraging guerillas to loot and sabotage the army's property. Printed by...
GLC04943
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