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19 February 1945
Weiner, Morris "Moe" (1909-1988)
to Sylvia Weiner
Moe writes that the winter is practically over. He also tells Sylvia to stop worrying about what her boss thinks of her.
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20 February 1945
Moe was able to see two shows this week. He also played ping pong with Jack at the Red Cross, and requests Sylvia send him a zippo lighter.
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21 February 1945
Moe complains about the soldiers that complain about everything even though they haven't even been overseas that long. He also mentions that he had to listen to a reading of the Articles of War.
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22 February 1945
Moe received Sylvia's package of chocolate and stationary. He also reports that one morning they actually had fresh eggs at breakfast and Marty ate six of them.
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23 February 1945
Moe describes a cathedral he visited and compares the attitude the English have toward their own history versus the French attitude towards history. He also mentions that he received a package from his mother.
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Circa 1940-1945
Humphrey, Walter Beach
American Junior Red Cross
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1943
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps : see your principal
Government Printing Office # O-517942. The main part of the poster is a large black-and white photograph of the faces of a smiling teenage girl and boy. The lower part of the poster is a green-tinted photograph of young volunteers harvesting...
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United States. Office of War Information
Ten Years Ago:/ The Nazis burned these books/ ... but free Americans can still read them
OWI Poster no. 66. Government Printing Office # O-528869. Poster in red and black tones. In the center is a black & white photograph showing a crowd of people standing next to a bonfire and giving the Nazi salute.
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1944
United States. Public Health Service. Division of Nurse Education.
Be a cadet nurse
Image by Jon Whitcomb. NE Poster #3. Government Printing Office # O-599074. Color poster of two women in cadet nurse uniforms. The woman on the left wears a military-style uniform with blue jacket and cap. The woman on the right wears a white nurse...
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Circa 1941-1945
American junior red cross
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1942
The present with a future/war bonds
In this poster by by artist Adolph Dehn, Santa Claus flies his sleigh delivering war bonds.
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Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th!
Government printing Office O-491977. OWI No. 14. Quotes Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Shows a tattered, torn U.S. flag flies at half-staff as dark smoke billows in the background. Allen Russell Saalburg (1899-1987), artist.
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1941 - 1945 circa.
United States. Dept. of the Treasury.
For peace and security/buy bonds
WFD 67 - A. Government printing office # O-668763. Image by Linn Ball depicting the Three Wise Men (Three Kings of the Orient) in colorful garments ride camels toward the Christmas Star.
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Rockwell, Norman
Ours -- to fight for / freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.
OWI No. 47. Government Printing Office O-511888. A large color poster of four Norman Rockwell paintings for the Satruday Evening Post that depict four American freedoms. In clockwise order, top to bottom, the images are: a man standing up to speak...
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1944-1945 circa.
United States. Army Air Forces.
O'er the ramparts we watch/United States Army Air Force
Image by Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer (1897-1982) depicting a young man with dark hair stands in the clouds, holding a large rocket-shaped bomb. He wears a brown leather bomber jacket and a silver I.D. bracelet. Small images of military airplanes fly in...
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Fuel fights!/Save your share
Government Printing Office # O-554712. Image of an eagle bearing label "Fight Waste!" on his back is at the right bottom corner of poster. Text reads: "Fuel fights! / save your share / 1. keep temperature at 65 F./2. don't heat unused rooms. /3...
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1945
Charter of the United Nations
Government Printing Office O-673788. Publication 2472
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Strong in Strength of the Lord/we who fight in the People's cause/will never stop until that cause is won
Government Printing Office # O-488341. Full-color poster with a illustration of three hands holding a monkey wrench, a rifle, and a wrench. O.W.I. Poster No. 8, illustrated by David Stone Martin. The quote is from a 1942 speech by U. S. Vice...
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United States. Public Health Services. Federal Security Agency.
Enlist in a proud profession!/Join the U.S. cadet nurse corps
Illustrated by Carolyn Moorhead Edmundson. Caption in blue box at bottom: "A lifetime education-- free! If you can qualify". "For information, go to your local hospital or write U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Box 88, New York, N.Y." Image of a woman in a...
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Attack Attack Attack/buy war bonds
WSS 697-B. O-497775. Government Printing Office. Illustrated by Ferdinand Warren.
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United States. War Savings Staff.
Till we meet again/buy war bonds
Wss 645-A. Government Printing Office No. O-491739. Illustrated by Joseph Hirsch depicting a smiling soldier in a khaki uniform and cap waves from a porthole. Approved with a stamp on the verso for distribution to schools by the Deputy...
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circa 1941- 1945
Housewives! Save waste fats for explosives!
Wartime conservation poster by Walter Richards. "SAVE WASTE FATS FOR EXPLOSIVES!." Left side of the poster shows fat pouring down from a kitchen skillet to an artillery piece manned by three helmeted soldiers. Blue and red lettering reads:...
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United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
Save freedom of speech / buy war bonds.
OWI No. 44. Government Printing Office O-510257. From the Four Freedoms series. From an painting in the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. A man stands to speak at a town meeting. A folded document is in his pocket. He wears a worn bomber...
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Ours... to fight for/freedom from want
OWI No. 45. Government Printing Office O-511886. Based on Norman Rockwell's painting "Thanksgiving Dinner" This poster features a painting of people at a dinner table. An older man and woman stand at the head of the table. The woman is putting a...
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The Atlantic Charter
All-lettered poster in black & white. Text of the Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Title and heading at top. Two columns of text below in italics.
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1941-1945 circa.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Don't fall for enemy propaganda
Color lithograph by artist Jack Betts. Warns of enemy propaganda against the U.S. Government, the Allies, Catholics, Jews and Protestants during World War II. Poster depicts the face of a man wearing a hat flanked by caricatures in green of Hitler...
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For gunpowder/save waste fats
Government Printing Office # O-533197.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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[1943]
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...
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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...
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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...
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Special civilian defense insignia
Government Printing Office O-484125
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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...
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Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991)
Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds
WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.
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1936
Democratic National Campaign Committee
Facts -- Mr. Business Man
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The farmer remembers longer than the elephant
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circa 1941 - 1943
Unknown
Log album US Navy Air Station Pearl Harbor [empty]
The album has a decorated suede upper cover and card lower cover, 5 printed leaves ("memory leaves," "my log and diary"), 28 blank leaves.
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07 December 1941 [1942]
U.S. Navy
[Wrecks of USS Downes & Cassin, 7 December 1941]
Naval History & Heritage Command attributes image to Navy Photographer's Mate Harold Fawcett. Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year anniversary. From Naval History and Hertiage's online catalog: "The wrecked...
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[Hickam Field]
Inscription on back of photograph: "Hickam Field"
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24 May 1943
Battleship Oklahoma's Deck Breaks Water
Label on front of photograph reads: (WX1) PEARL HARBOR, May 24-- BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA'S DECK BREAKS WATER---Barnacled deck of the U.S. Battleship Oklahoma breaks water during salvage operations which returned to service 16 of 19 ships sunk by Japs in...
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[Ship damaged in Pearl Harbor attack]
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U.S.S. Virginia & U.S.S. Tennessee
Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year anniversary.
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U.S.S. Arizona
Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year anniversary. From Naval HIstory and Heritage's online catalog: "The forward superstructure and midships gun positions of the sunken USS Arizona (BB-39), afire after the...
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Firefighters Work on Blazing Battleship
Official Navy photo on Pearl Harbor. Label on back of photograph: "US Sailors man boats at the side of the blazing USS West Virginia to fight flames started by the Japs." Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year...
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[Attack on Pearl Harbor]
Sailors in airfield watch the clouds of smoke and fire from attack on Pearl Harbor. Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year anniversary. From Naval History and Heritage command's online catalog: "Sailors stand...
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