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The poster features a central figure of a mother holding onto her babies and reaching out into the empty distance. The description in full reads "Must Children Die and Mothers Plead in Vain? Buy More Liberty Bonds." The colors are a pale yellow…

This U.S. Military Recruitment poster depicts a Revolutionary War “Minuteman” standing side-by-side with a WWI soldier, drawing a natural parallel between the two, who are almost identical in stature and facial features. Cannons, tents, and what…

A poster created for the Parliamentary Recruiting Agency. In this poster, six young men smile in their uniforms above the text "Join the brave throng that goes marching along!" This rhyming phrase would likely stick in the memory of people long…

A poster of a young French solider looking back to his assumed comrades, and calling "on les aura!" (We'll get them!). He is marching forward, with gun in hand, in what would be a westerly direction on paper, toward what can only be the war front.…

(Pages 1 and 3 featuerd. Full document available through McFarlin Library's Special Collections) This document is the full sheet music for Edward Madden's "Blue Bell," published in 1904. The song opens with a young soldier paying his farewells to…

In "The Minute Men of To-day are Going to Plattsburg" the poster’s artist draws a definitive connection between the legendary patriots of the Revolutionary War and the recruits of WWI. The implication that war enlistment directly correlated with…

In this English poster, boys are encouraged to enlist for the war effort. The four boys depicted in the poster are walking in perfect formation with synchronized steps and bright, smiling faces. Their bodies seem to blend together into a single…