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John Hazard Collection of World War I posters, 1917-1923

3 linear feet
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Posters originating primarily in the United States (with some from Canada and France) publicizing various activities on the home front in World War I: recruitment efforts, Red Cross Drives, the sale of Liberty Bonds, War Savings Stamps, and Thrift Stamps, the YMCA, various austerity measures, and appeals for charitable contributions. Included in the collections is the well-known recruitment poster "I want you for the U.S. Army."

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Great Britain Ministry of Munitions collection, 1915-1917

0.5 linear feet
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Printed documents of the British Ministry of Munitions during the period 1915-1917. The set, which is not complete, is in numerical order, and there is an index to the items in the first folder of the collection.

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Grosvenor B. Clarkson papers, 1917-1927

1 linear feet
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Correspondence, documents, and reports relating to the Council of National Defense and to industrial mobilization during World War I.

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Frankenhuis posters collection, 1914-1926

22 linear feet
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A collection, assembled by Dutch businessman Maurice Frankenhuis (1893-1969), consisting primarily of World War I posters, and in addition, post-war political and international pacifist movement posters, merchandise and motion picture advertisements, post-war anti-German propaganda, and war-related kindness to animals (horses) posters. Approximately half of the posters ate illustrated and half are textual; there are a few examples of handwritten, hand-lettered, or hand-painted posters. The general topics include: calls for money (war loans, subscriptions, war savings stamps, etc.), war material exhibitions, ordinances, war news (including battles such as Verdun, the French call for mobilization, victories such as the fall of Warsaw, the U.S. entry into the war, etc.), maps, propaganda, plans for the post-war world, recruiting appeals, Red Cross appeals, etc. The majority of the posters are German, for domestic consumption or for the people in the occupied parts of Belgium, France, and Russia. The nations whose posters are represented include: Australia, The Austro-Hungarian Empire, Belgium, Canada, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. The languages used include: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, Franch, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Madrasi, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, and Yiddish

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