Allied War Bonds
Souscrivez! France’s 1918 Tank Loan Poster
The French Loan Rally edition uses a tank to promise victory through financial participation.
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Discover the artists, campaigns and imagery behind the posters, with archival sources and links to the corresponding editions.
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Allied
Your Maxim, Buy War Bonds: Bert Thomas and the Feed the Guns Campaign
Bert Thomas turned a pun into a poster: a machine gun fed with war bonds, from the last great British bond drive of the First World War.
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Home Front
Give ’Em Both Barrels: Jean Carlu’s 1941 Poster for the Arsenal of Democracy
A French refugee designer drew the factory worker and the soldier as a single fighting unit, months before Pearl Harbor.
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Allied Forces
America’s Tribute to Britain: The Eagle and the Lion
Frederick George Cooper uses two national animals to express Allied recognition in 1918.
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Home Front
Victory Girls: Edward Penfield’s Rowing Poster
A young woman rowing makes collective effort the subject of this 1918 United War Work Campaign image.
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Home Front
We Can Do It!: The History Behind the Famous Poster
J. Howard Miller’s factory poster became far more famous after the war than during its original display.
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Home Front
She’s a WOW: Adolph Treidler’s Woman Ordnance Worker Poster
The 1943 Army poster that turned an old song about the girl left at home into a salute to the women building the weapons.
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Marine Corps
The U.S. Marines Want You: A Direct Recruiting Appeal
A beckoning Marine makes the viewer the subject of this sharply focused enlistment design.
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Military Aviation
Spitfire Attack: Reading an RAF Combat Illustration
An aerial combat image places the Spitfire within British wartime aviation imagery.
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Navy
Sub Spotted—Let ’Em Have It: Barclay’s Navy Action Poster
McClelland Barclay puts the physical work of anti-submarine warfare at the centre of a 1942 recruiting image.
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Navy
Man the Guns: McClelland Barclay’s 1942 Navy Poster
A naval gun crew and commanding red lettering make this recruiting design instantly readable.
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Remembrance
Remember Dec. 7th! The Pearl Harbor Poster That Borrowed Lincoln’s Words
No ships, no planes, no enemy: just a torn flag at half-mast in the Pearl Harbor smoke, and a promise from the Gettysburg Address. The story of Allen Saalburg’s 1942 poster.
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