World War One Posters

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Created by: Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Last Updated: 2024-07-11
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This collection consists of digitized WWI posters collected by former history professor Eugene Morrow Violette while teaching at what was then known as the First District Normal School in Kirksville, MO. The originals are part of the E. M. Violette Museum Collection in the Special Collections & University Archives at Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University.

Total items
374
Identifier
vital:3352

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91. Food Control Is a War Measure

Description:
WWI United States Food Administration poster explaining how food control is a war measure.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
en
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9237

92. Food is Ammunition

Description:
United States Food Administration poster featuring a basket full of fruits and vegetables in front of American soldiers in silhouette.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Sheridan, John E.
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
Heywood, Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co.
Language:
en
Date Created:
1918 and 2016
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9077

93. Food Will Win the War

Description:
WWI poster with only the words "food will win the war".
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
en
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9150

94. Food Will Win the War (blueprint)

Description:
WWI United States Food Administration poster that is a blueprint describing how a large banner encouraging using less food should be created.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
en
Date Created:
1917 and 2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9227

95. Food Will Win the War (Statue of Liberty)

Description:
United States Food Administration poster showing immigrants in front of the Statue of Liberty.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Chambers, Charles Edward, approximately 1883-1941
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
Rusling Wood, Litho.
Language:
en
Date Created:
1918 and 2016
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9076

96. Food Will Win the War Don't Waste It

Description:
WWI poster featuring a photo of the Municipal Building in Trenton, NJ, with a large U.S. Food Administration poster about saving food hung across its entrance.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Truman State University (Owner and Digitizing Technician)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
en
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9328

97. For Action on Sea and Land Join the Marines

Description:
WWI Marine recruitment poster from St. Louis.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
en
Date Created:
2014
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9027

98. For Active Service Join the U.S. Marines

Description:
WWI Marine recruitment poster from St. Louis showing two Marines hoisting the U.S. flag near a beach.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Riesenberg, Sidney H.
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
en
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9307

99. For Home and Country

Description:
Victory Liberty Loan poster showing an Allied soldier hugging a woman and child.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Orr, Alfred Everitt, 1886-
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
American Lithographic Co.
Language:
en
Date Created:
1918 and 2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9104

100. For President / For Vice-President

Description:
Poster from the 1916 presidential election featuring photos of Woodrow Wilson for president and Thomas R. Marshall for vice president.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, and World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
Creator:
Unknown
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
en
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9204