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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171. La Droit et la Liberté

Description:
WWI poster in French with the text of a speech from M. Georges Clemenceau given September 17, 1918.
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:
Naudin, Bernard, 1876-1946
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
fr
Date Created:
1918 and 2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9190

172. A La Gloire

Description:
WWI poster featuring the text of a letter from Jean Corentin Carre, a French soldier killed in combat at age 18, to his primary school teacher.
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:
Prouvé, Victor Emile, 1858-1943
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
fr
Date Created:
1919 and 2016
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9079

173. L'Accueil de la Suisse aux Rapatri's

Description:
French WWI poster showing repatriates returning to Switzerland where people are waving Red Cross flags.
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:
Prouvé, Victor Emile, 1858-1943
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
fr
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9294

174. Landing the Second Million in France!

Description:
Liberty Loan Pictorial News poster with a picture of American ships full of soldiers landing in a French port 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:9109

175. The Last Evidence That Anybody Cares

Description:
WWI Y.M.C.A. national campaign poster asking for at least $35,000,000 to continue its war work.
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:
Butler, John F.
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
Globe Lithographing Co.
Language:
en
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9185

176. Le Laboratoire l'Usine la Guerre

Description:
French WWI poster showing men working in a laboratory with text in French.
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:
Prouvé, Victor Emile, 1858-1943
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Language:
fr
Date Created:
2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9292

177. Learn and Earn

Description:
WWI Army recruitment poster for the Ordinance Department showing a soldier welding a tank.
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:
Falls, C. B. (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
Engineer Reproduction Plant (Washington Barracks, D.C.)
Language:
en
Date Created:
1919 and 2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9267

178. Learn to Make and Test the Big Guns

Description:
WWI Army Ordnance Department recruitment poster showing soldiers firing large guns at the Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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:
Falls, C. B. (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
Engineer Reproduction Plant (Washington Barracks, D.C.)
Language:
en
Date Created:
1919 and 2017
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9087

179. Lend Him a Hand

Description:
Third Liberty Loan poster showing hands reaching out to a soldier trying to climb a hill and encouraging viewers to buy 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:9120

180. Lest They Perish

Description:
American Committee for Relief in the Near East campaign poster showing a young mother and her child in front of a destroyed village.
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:
King, W. B.
Contributor:
Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:
Conwell Graphic Companies
Language:
en
Date Created:
1917 and 2016
Resource Type:
Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:
vital:9074