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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101. Four Years in the Fight

Description:
WWI Y.W.C.A. and United War Work Campaign poster featuring French women working in a factory making munitions.
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:
Jonas, Lucien, 1880-1947
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
Strobridge Litho. Co. (New York)
Language:
en
Date Created:
1918 and 2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9222

102. Free War Exhibit

Description:
WWI poster advertising a traveling train exhibit of war relics arriving in Kirksville, Missouri to commemorate the first anniversary of the declaration of 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:9319

103. Free! Free! Your Future at a Glance

Description:
WWI Army recruitment poster from Kirksville showing various opportunities in the palm of a man's hand.
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:9015

104. French Honor American Heroes!

Description:
Liberty Loan Pictorial News poster with a picture of French citizens holding crosses and asking viewers to buy more Liberty Bonds.
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:9108

105. The Fruits of Victory

Description:
WWI poster featuring a woman draped in an American flag holding a jar of preserved food and surrounded by vegetables.
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:
Jacobs, Leonebel
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
F.M. Lupton (Firm)
Language:
en
Date Created:
1918 and 2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9153

106. The Garbage That Comes From Your Kitchen

Description:
United States Food Administration poster explaining how garbage can be used to help 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:9229

107. Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man I'd Join the Navy

Description:
WWI Navy recruitment poster from St. Louis featuring a woman in a sailor's uniform.
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:
Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952
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 2014
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9011

108. Gen. Pershing Endorses Salvation Army War Work

Description:
WWI Salvation Army poster from St. Louis with an endorsement from General John J. Pershing.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda, and Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
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:
1918 and 2014
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:8987

109. General Pershing Cabled

Description:
WWI United War Work Campaign poster featuring a quote by General John J. Pershing praising the Knights of Columbus for its work France.
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war, World War, 1914-1918--Posters, World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda, and Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
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:9223

110. The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Needs

Description:
Land Service Committee poster with four women, two horses, gardening tools, and a basket of vegetables.
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:
Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
United States Printing and Lithograph Co.
Language:
en
Date Created:
1918 and 2016
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9046