An iconic World War Two guilt-trip poster encouraging carpooling. Pursell (born in Tennessee) produced a number of Art Deco posters in the 1930s and a few propaganda posters during the Second World War. This carpooling poster has become one of his best-known works, combining strong graphic design and a mocking.....
Price: $600
First Edition. A collection of the key legal works affecting the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, published by the leading Japanese American civil rights organization. The three documents reprinted here are the amicus curiae brief of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in the Fred Korematsu case.....
Price: $500
The House Un-American Activities extends its fear-mongering, innuendo, and racism to the parole program of the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which cleared interned Japanese Americans for work outside of the camps. The subcommittee on the WRA had three members and voted 2–1 to release this report. In favor were Reps.....
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A pair of artifacts from the private Japanese-language schools that operated at the Tule Lake internment camp between 1943 and 1945. One book, bound in brown wrappers, is Jinjo shogaku shushinsho [尋常小学校修身書 (Elementary School Ethics, volume 6; [2],128 pages]; the other book, in blue wrappers, is Teishin kominka koyo zenpen.....
Price: $3,500
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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First Edition. A memoir of Sacks' experiences in England during and just after the Second World War. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $20
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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Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, August 29, 1942. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "Parkville, Mo. American born Japanese students at Park College, Parkville, Mo., take part in flag-raising ceremony and calmly continue studies there despite protests of citizens of Platte County, Mo., who believe.....
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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.....
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A loose pen and ink sketch subtly commenting on the Italy campaign during the Second World War. The drawing shows a man reading a newspaper seated in front of an American cafe in Italy, with another man across the plaza reading a newspaper outside a cafe catering to Germans. The.....
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First Edition. 506 pages. A Second World War novel, about a fictional agency, the Bureau of Psychological Combat. First edition (no additional printings noted). Near fine in a near-fine dust jacket, but for some wear at the top of the spine. With a review slip laid in.
Price: $30
![Soldiers Carrying a Bomb]. Garth Williams](/pictures/thumb/6115.jpg?v=1604692975)
Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing. Roughly 8 by 6 inches. Probably from 1943-1946, when Williams was a staff illustrator for the New Yorker magazine. Only seven of his drawings ever appeared in the magazine during his three years there, but it did lead to a connection with New Yorker writer E......
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Leaflet, 4-3/4 by 7-3/4 inches, printed in black on the front (recto) and red on the back (verso). Text in Italian, dropped by the Allies over Libya before the fall of the city in 1943. Image of a boot with a swastika crushing a building with text on the back.....
Price: $100
![So sieht es in Berlin aus und in Deiner Heimatstadt? [This is Berlin. What about your hometown?]....](/pictures/thumb/134.jpg?v=1597090086)
8 by 5-1/2 inches. An American propaganda leaflet enumerating the quantity of bombs being dropped on Germany. The front (rector) 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.....
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Leaflet, 5-1/4 by 8 inches, in Italian, printed both sides. A propaganda leaflet dropped over North Africa the day after the second battle of El Alamein. The leaflet includes a safe conduct pass and condemns the German army for stealing Italian vehicles for their retreat. "You will be force to.....
Price: $75
