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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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......

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.....