World War One Posters

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Created by: Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections & University Archives

Last Updated: 2024-07-11

Collection Details

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
Creator: Pickler Memorial Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Identifier: vital:3352

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Experiences from the Great War

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321. The Victory Liberty Loan

Description:: Victory Liberty Loan cloth banner featuring a large, blue "V", the industrial honor emblem, in the center.
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:: Sweeney Litho. Co. (New York City, N.Y.)
Language:: en
Date Created:: 1917 and 2017
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:9246

322. Victory Liberty Loan

Description:: Victory Liberty Loan poster with a large "V" with text in the middle.
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:9245

323. Victory Loan

Description:: Part of a Victory Liberty Loan display that goes with WWI_309.47 showing a bricklayer holding a red "V" for the wall behind him.
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:: 2016
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:9070

324. Volk, nimm dir selbst den Frieden!

Description:: German poster with a title that roughly translates to "People, take the peace for yourself!"
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:: de
Date Created:: 1918 and 2017
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:9157

325. Wanted

Description:: WWI Army Ordnance Department recruitment poster listing positions available through the Civil Service Commission.
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:: 1917 and 2017
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:9340

326. Wanted 25,000 Student Nurses

Description:: U. S. Student Nurse Reserve recruitment poster asking for 25,000 student nurses to volunteer.
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:: Bancroft, Milton Herbert, 1867-1947
Contributor:: Missouri State Archives, Missouri Secretary of State (Digitizing Technician) and Truman State University (Owner)
Publisher:: John H. Eggers Co. (New York)
Language:: en
Date Created:: 2016
Resource Type:: Collection, Still Image, and Text
Identifier:: vital:9043

327. Wanted Labor and Mechanics of All Trades

Description:: WWI recruitment poster appealing to mechanics and laborers to build ships in four southern states.
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:9284

328. The War

Description:: WWI poster that looks like a small blackboard asking men of London if they are doing their share for 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:: 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:9356

329. The War Call of the Church

Description:: WWI poster from the War Commission of the Episcopal Church in New York City featuring letters from abroad and camps in American on the help that the church is providing.
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:: Episcopal Church. War Commission
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:9211

330. War Program for Public Eating-Places

Description:: WWI poster by the United States Food Administration explaining how public eating places can conserve food for 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:9233

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