During the Second World War, posters like this one hung in most of the grocery stores in the United States, but few of them have survived. A key homefront concern of the federal government was runaway inflation, which had posed a significant economic problem during World War One. In addition.....
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A rather fierce-looking poster encouraging women to participate in the federal efforts to control inflation driven by shortages during the Second World War. An illustration of a woman wearing an apron, her teeth and fist clenched dominate the poster. Below the image are a list of seven key actions: buy.....
Price: $150
![Item No: #308106 Rationing Is Sharing with Our Fighters and Neighbors [Poster]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308106.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653148805)
A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in the federal efforts to ration scarce foodstuffs and goods. The text is presented in fields of red, white, and blue. 22 by 28 inches. O.P.A. Poster 1943-O-518863. A near fine copy, folded as issued. Minor splits at the folds.....
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A 12-by-18-inch "window emblem" poster from the federal effort during the Second World War to keep inflation in check. Text reads, "We charge only ceiling prices or less / We post ceiling price lists prominently / We welcome questions about our prices." This poster was intended for distribution to participating.....
Price: $100
![Item No: #6116 [Stalin Awards Medal]. Garth Williams](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649790211)
Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing. Paper measures roughly 6 by 8 inches, cut by hand from a larger sheet and not quite square (as was typical of William's drawings at this time). In this drawing, a military man, seemingly Stalin, pins a medal on another soldier, seemingly an American Army three-star.....
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One of the classic food-related posters of the Second World War, encouraging home canning to preserve food for the winter. 16 by 22-1/2 inches. OWI Poster No. 77; O-533993. Old folds, as issued; beginning to split along one fold. This is an original World War Two poster, not a reproduction.....
Price: $300
An attractive homefront poster from the Second World War encouraging Americans to recycle scrap metal for the war effort. The poster presents stylized silhouettes of a bomb, a tank, a battleship, and an anti-aircraft gun, each printed over a line drawing of a pile of scrap metal. 20 by 28-1/2.....
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A poster to encourage the quick unloading of freight trains by railroad employees. The text on the back (verso) says, "It is designed for posting in freight yards, on shipping platforms, and around all other points of freight car loading and unloading operations." The poster, produced for the U.S. Office.....
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A terrific and dramatic home front propaganda poster encouraging lumber production published by a lobbying group of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (now the National Forest Products Association). The poster depicts Uncle Sam, illustrated in a wood-cut style, holding an ax and pointing toward forested mountains. An article in the.....
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A fifth-grader's "army reports and pictures" documenting German military victories and leaders. Young Ms. Wolter was (apparently) assigned to collect newspaper articles about Adolf Hitler and military victories, which she pasted neatly into a blank school lesson book. The collection begins with a newspaper photograph of Josef Goebbels congratulating the.....
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Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, October 31, 1944. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "A worker at the Scullin Steel Co. in St. Louis moves a completed 6-ton 'earthquake bomb' forward on its platform to a freight car." These bombs were manufactured for the British.....
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First Edition. 7-7/8 by 11-1/4 inches. Poems for a spoken-word one-man performance about the Nazi architect of the Holocaust. The poems are printed one letter to a square on letterpress-printed graph paper. The format emphasizes Himmler's drive for precision. Published in an edition of 500 hardcover copies and an unknown.....
Price: $125
A British propaganda leaflet aimed at Italians living in Tripoly, Libya, in 1943. This leaflet from the Second World War includes an image of a boot with a swastika crushing a building with text on the back warning citizens of Tripoli that the Germans will destroy the city when they.....
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An American propaganda leaflet enumerating the quantity of bombs being dropped on Germany. The front (recto) is a picture of bombed out buildings; the back (verso) is German text only, translated in part, "During the first three months of 1944, 80,000 tons of bombs were dropped on German industry. 8.....
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A propaganda leaflet intended for Italian troops in North Africa the day after the second battle of El Alamein. The leaflet includes a safe conduct pass, and attempts to divide the Axis armies by criticizing the German army for stealing Italian vehicles for their retreat. "You [the Italian soldiers] will.....
Price: $75
