University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections6473 (Accession No. 6473-001)University of Washington. Libraries. Special CollectionsUnited States War
Poster Collection1914-19455 oversize folders (87 posters [75 unique])Collection materials are in
English.Posters from the
United States related to World Wars I and II collected by the University of
WashingtonWorld War I, known as the Great War, stimulated the transformation of
this well-established advertising tool into an effective propaganda medium for
war. Often designed by the leading artists and illustrators of the time, they
were cheap to produce and easy to distribute. Their direct slogans and visual
imagery appealed to a variety of cultural and nationalistic themes that served
to muster public support for the war campaign. Many were illustrated with
compelling images of heroes, sacrifice and family values. While some encouraged
the purchase of war bonds and solicited donations for non-profit organizations
such as the Red Cross, others promoted patriotism and warned against aiding the
enemy with careless talk. The study of this medium leads us to a greater
understanding of their effectiveness as tools for propaganda, aids in the
analysis of national cultural and symbolic values, and helps define ideological
differences between nations at war.
Arranged in 2 series.
- Series 1, World War I, 1914-1920
- Series 2, World War II, 1939-1945
World War I and II posters from the United States. Included are
propaganda on purchasing war bonds, the importance of national security,
recruitment, charity and service, education, morale, and industries and labor.
Includes posters printed for the US Government, the American Red Cross, the
YWCA, Victory Liberty Loan, and others.
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Donated by the Burke Museum, approximately 1960s
Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)MilitaryAdvertising and MarketingMedia and Communication
Series 1World War I1914-19202POS009 This
Baby ... 1914-191820 x 23 3/4 in- Artist: A.M. (Anna Milo) Upjohn
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: American Red Cross
- Poster Number: None
2POS017 Help
Them: Keep Your War Savings Pledge 191728 x 40 in- Artist: Casper Emerson Jr.
- Printing Company: American Lithographic Co., N.Y.
- Printed For: United States Treasury Department
- Poster Number: None
4POS092Your War Savings Pledge191728 1/4 x 40 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Government Printing Office
- Printed For: War Savings Stamps
- Poster Number: S27
4POS062 Uncle
Sam Needs That Extra Shovelful 191716 2/3 x 22 in- Artist: F. Sindelar
- Printing Company: Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Brooklyn,
N.Y.
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
4POS018 Keep
Him Free 191728 3/4 x 40 in- Artist: Charles Livingston Bull
- Printing Company: Committee on Public Information, Division
of Pictorial Publicity (Ketterlinus, Phila.)
- Printed For: War Savings Stamps (United States Treasury
Dept.)
- Poster Number: None
4POS076 Pro
Patria 191728 1/2 x 39 3/4 in; two copies- Artist: Horace Devitt Welsh
- Printing Company: The Hegeman Print, N.Y.
- Printed For: Unknown
- Poster Number: None
4POS077 The
sword is drawn, the Navy upholds it! 191730 x 40 in- Artist: Kenyon Cox
- Printing Company: The H.C. Miner Litho. Co. N.Y.
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
5POS105Fight or buy bonds191730 x 40 in; four copies- Artist: Howard Chandler Christy
- Printing Company: Forbes, Boston
- Printed For: Third Liberty Loan
- Poster Number: 3.A
2POS085V: Invest1917-191820 x 30 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: 3.C.
2POS044 The
U.S. Marines Want You 1917-191827 1/4 x 20 1/3 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
4POS095Carry On!1917-191819 1/2 x 28 1/2 in- Artist: Dorothy Clogston
- Printing Company: H.S. P.A.
- Printed For: War Savings Stamps
- Poster Number: None
2POS012 Join!
The Greatest Mother 1917-1919?28 2/3 x 13 1/4 in; two copies- Artist: Lawrence Wilbur
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: American Red Cross
- Poster Number: None
4POS072 Four
years in the fight, the women of France 1917-1919?20 x 30 in- Artist: Lucien Jonas
- Printing Company: The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati
& New York
- Printed For: United War Work Campaign
- Poster Number: Unknown
1POS080National War Savings Day191821 x 32 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
1POS081Untitled (Eagle flying over fleet)191820 1/4 x 30 1/3 in- Artist: James H. Daugherty
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
1POS083For Every Fighter a Woman Worker191820 x 30 in; two copies- Artist: Adolph Treidler
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: YWCA (United War Work Campaign)
- Poster Number: None
1POS060 Joan
of Arc Saved France 191820 x 30 in; two copies- Artist: Haskell Coffin
- Printing Company: The United States
- Printing& Lithograph Co., New York
- Printed For: United States Treasury Department
- Poster Number: S-1
1POS001 "Hey
Fellows!" 191821 1/2 x 31 1/2 in; two copies- Artist: John E. Sheridan
- Printing Company: American Lithographic Co., N.Y.
- Printed For: America Library Association
- Poster Number: None
2POS086Give!191819 2/3 x 26 1/2 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
2POS087United We Serve191820 x 30 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: United War Work Campaign
- Poster Number: None
2POS022 Save
your Child From Autocracy And Poverty 191820 x 30 in- Artist: Herbert Paus
- Printing Company: The United States
- Printing& Lithograph Co., New York
- Printed For: United States Treasury Department
- Poster Number: S-4-
2POS003 Clear
The Way! 191820 x 30 in; two copies- Artist: Howard Chandler Christy
- Printing Company: Forbes, Boston
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: 10-B.
2POS088You Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds191822 x 28 in- Artist: Lawrence Harris
- Printing Company: Sackett & Wilhelms Corp., N.Y.
- Printed For: Unkown;
- Poster Number: 9-A
2POS016 Have
YOU a Red Cross Service Flag? 191821 x 28 in- Artist: Jessie Willcox Smith
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: American Red Cross;
- Poster Number: None
4POS073One of the Thousand YMCA Girls in France191820 x 30 in; two copies- Artist: Neysa McMein
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: United War Work Campaign
- Poster Number: None
4POS066 Must
children die and mothers plead in vain? 191814 x 11 in- Artist: Walter H. Everett
- Printing Company: The Sackett & Wilhelps Corporation,
N.Y.
- Printed For: Unknown
- Poster Number: 1-B
4POS065 Sure!
We'll Finish the Job 191814 x 11 in- Artist: Gerrit A. Beneker
- Printing Company: Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., Chicago
- Printed For: Victory Liberty Loan
- Poster Number: None
5POS098Red Cross Membership Week191811 x 16 2/3 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Buck
- PrintingCo., Boston
- Printed For: Red Cross
- Poster Number: No. 24.
5POS099Is this your hand?191810 1/2 x 16 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: War Savings Stamps
- Poster Number: None
5POS100Keep 'em smiling!191814 3/4 x 19 1/3 in- Artist: M. Leone Bracker
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: War Camp Community Service
- Poster Number: None
5POS052 Back
him up! Buy victory bonds 191820 x 27 2/3 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Victory Bonds
- Poster Number: W.P.6.
5POS102See him through191822 x 28 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: American Lithographic Co., N.Y.
- Printed For: National Catholic War Council, United War Work
Campaign
- Poster Number: None
5POS107Answer the Red Cross191820 x 30 in- Artist: Ray Greenleaf
- Printing Company: Niagara Litho. Co. Buffalo- New York
- Printed For: American Red Cross, Committee on Public
Information Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Poster Number: None
5POS108I summon you to the comradeship191824 x 38 in- Artist: Leo Mielziner
- Printing Company: The U.S. Prtg. & Litho. Co., N.Y.
- Printed For: American Red Cross
- Poster Number: None
6POS071 Every
girl pulling for victory 191828 3/4 x 40 in- Artist: Edward Penfield
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: United War Work Campaign
- Poster Number: None
6POS002 Workers,
lend your strength to the red triangle 191828 1/3 x 39 in- Artist: Gil Spear
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: United War Work Campaign
- Poster Number: None
6POS059 Come
On! 191842 x 28 in; two copies- Artist: Walter Whitehead
- Printing Company: Ketterlinus Phila.
- Printed For: Liberty Bonds
- Poster Number: None
6POS111Back our girls over there191830 x 40 in- Artist: Clarence F. Underwood
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: YWCA, United War Work Campaign
- Poster Number: None
2POS019 For
Home and Country 1918?26 x 38 in- Artist: Alfred Everitt Orr
- Printing Company: American Lithographic Co., N.Y.
- Printed For: Victory Liberty Loan
- Poster Number: 2-C
2POS004 Still
the Greatest Mother in the World 1918-191928 1/4 x 42 in- Artist: A.E. Foringer
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: American Red Cross
- Poster Number: None
4POS097They kept the sea lanes open… Invest in the Victory
Liberty Loan1918-1919?25 3/4 x 42 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Victory Liberty Loan;
- Poster Number: None
1POS068 Americans
All! 191928 x 42 in- Artist: Howard Chandler Christy
- Printing Company: Forbes, Boston
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
4POS091Abraham Lincoln, to Mrs. Bixby191930 2/3 x 41 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Boston Herald
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: None
4POS096And they thought we couldn't fight!191939 x 29 in- Artist: Clyde Forsythe
- Printing Company: Ketterlinus, Phila.
- Printed For: Victory Liberty Loan
- Poster Number: 5-C
5POS101What are YOU doing to help?191914 x 21 in- Artist: Gordon Grant
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Red Cross
- Poster Number: None
6POS110We belong 100% strong192020 x 29 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Red Cross
- Poster Number: None
2POS084Buy EarlyUnknown21 x 28 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Victory Liberty Loan
- Poster Number: None
Series 2World War II1939-19455POS103Save for Defence1939-194527 3/4 x 42 in; two copies- Artist: Frank Newbould
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Post Office Savings Bank
- Poster Number: P. B. 30
5POS106Save for Victory & your future194021 3/4 x 36 1/4 in- Artist: Frank Newbould
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Post Office Savings Bank
- Poster Number: P. B. 31
6POS061 Lest
we regret… 1940-194125 x 38 in- Artist: Hawkins;
- Printing Company: S.A. No 1 Union, Lipaba (88) Label New
York;
- Printed For: Committee to Defend America by Aiding the
Allies;
- Poster Number: None
5POS104Give 'em both barrels194120 x 30 in- Artist: Jean Carlu
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Division of Information Office for Emergency
Management
- Poster Number: None
4POS089Making America Strong1941-194520 x 29 3/4 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Public Information Program of the National
Association of Manufacturers
- Poster Number: None
4POS090Making America Strong (#2)1941-194540 x 30 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: Public Information Program of the National
Association of Manufacturers
- Poster Number: None
4POS093The Victory of the United Nations is Assured1941-194520 x 30 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: J. Howitt & Son Ltd., Nottingham
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: 51-3923
1POS074 Strong
in the strength of the Lord … 194220 x 30 in- Artist: David Stone Martin
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: War Production Board
- Poster Number: OWI Poster No. 8
1POS067 Bowl
Them Over 194220 x 30 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: Unknown
- Printed For: War Production Board
- Poster Number: A-16
1POS049 Bonds-,
not Bunds! 194220 x 27 1/2 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: WSS 541-C
4POS094United States Indian School Posters194220 x 14 1/4 in- Artists: Ben Quintana (Ha-a-Tee), Eva Mirabal (Eah-Ha-Wa),
Charles Presbetonequa
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Education Section, War Savings Staff, Treasury
Department;
- Poster Number: None
Poster displays multiple student-produced works
1POS082Work to Keep Free!194322 x 27 1/3 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: War Production Board
- Poster Number: A-29
2POS029 Where
our men are fighting, our food is fighting 194318 1/2 x 27 1/4 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: U.S Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: OWI Poster No. 35.
4POS040 1778-1943,
Americans will always fight for libery 194319 3/4 x 30 in- Artist: Bernard Perlin
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: OWI Poster No. 26
4POS064 Ours….
to fight for (Four Freedoms) 194318 x 28 in- Artist: Norman Rockwell
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Unknown
- Poster Number: OWI Poster No. 47
6POS109…the state of this nation is good …194319 3/4 x 29 3/4 in- Artist: Unknown
- Printing Company: U.S. Government Printing Office
- Printed For: Unkown
- Poster Number: OWI Poster No. 40