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L'emprunt de la libération

Description: Prints, advertising; Image of the defeated Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, wearing a white cape and military helmet and holding a broken sword, being herded by unidentified individuals carrying the flags of various countries including France, the United States, Great Britain, Belgium, and Japan; the poster promotes France's fourth war loan campaign in World War I.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1918
Call number: priWWI_L_16
Provenance: Gift of Charles L. Heartwell, 1938.; Gift of Elizabeth Norris, June 2014.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Souscrivez pour la victoire : Banque Nationale de Drédit

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Prints, advertising; Image of an allegorical winged female figure of victory draped in a French flag flying across a battlefield above dead German soldiers and cannons and leading a cloud of attacking Allied troops including infantrymen with rifles and the flags of countries including Belgium, France, the United States, Japan, and Great Britain; the poster promotes the French war loan campaign during World War I.

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"They shall not perish" campaign for $30.000.000 American Committee for Relief in the Near East Armenia - Greece - Syria - Persia

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Prints, advertising; Image of the allegorical figure Columbia, draped in an American flag and wearing a white dress and helmet, holding a sword above her head to defend a girl, representing the countries of Armenia, Greece, Syria, and Persia, who clings to her legs; with a shield of the flags of Allied countries including the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy in the background; the poster promotes the January 12-19, 1919, giving campaign during World War I of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East.

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Buy your victory bonds

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Prints, advertising; Image of a Canadian soldier, wearing a military uniform with a maple leaf badge labeled "Canada" on the collar and a helmet, pointing at the viewer; the poster promotes the purchase of Canadian war bonds during World War I.

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Military

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The Military subseries comprises sheet music published in the United States between 1900 and 1945. The scores shed light on aspects of World War I and World War II. Also included are scores dedicated to the American Civil War, foreign military campaigns, and other aspects of military life. A portion of scores, though military-related, are also patriotic in nature. Scores about World War I (WWI) touch upon bravery; enlistments, deployments, and homecomings; the French people, liberty; nostalgia; romance; branches of the United States military; patriotism; and the Red Cross. There are scores about the battle of Marne; General John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I; and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia. Also included are scores by popular Canadian composer and lyricist Lieutenant Gitz Rice, including Dear Old Pal of Mine, and Keep Your Head Down, Fritzie Boy. The scores within the World War II (WWII) category were published between 1939 and 1945 and have a similar message as those covering WWI, but with a heavy focus on victory. Subjects specifically covered include artillery, branches of the U.S. military, enlistment, homecomings, Kaiser Wilhelm II, patriotism, romance, war bonds, and the Women's Army Corps. (WAC). To note are comic songs der Fuehrer's Face, from the Walt Disney motion picture Donald Duck in Nutzi Land, written and composed by Oliver Wallace, and G.I. Jive, originally composed and performed by Johnny Mercer. Also included is the score Nimitz and Halsey and Me!, dedicated to five-star fleet admirals Chester W. Nimitz and William Bull Halsey, Jr. Other scores within the subseries focus on the American Revolution, the American Civil War, the Mexican War (1846-1848), the Second Boer War, and the Spanish-American War.

Il cibo vincerà la guerra! Venite qui a cercare la libertà dovete ora aiutare a conservarla il pane è necessario agli alleati non sprecate nulla

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Prints, advertising; Image of immigrants arriving at a dock in the New York Harbor with a rainbow, a ship, the Manhattan skyline, and Statue of Liberty in the distance; a young man wearing a red cap guides an older woman holding a basket of food in the foreground; the poster's text, directed to Italian immigrants, promotes the conservation of food as part of the war effort in the United States during World War I.

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Journée de Paris au profit des oeuvres de guerre de l'hôtel de ville 14 Juillet 1917

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Prints, advertising; Image of a girl wearing a short white dress, tights, and a red and blue poppy flower in her hair and holding a doll that is dressed as a wounded French soldier with bandages; a black poodle holding a bowl in its mouth and wearing a blue and red bow sits next to the child; the poster promotes "City of Paris Day," which was a charitable campaign held concurrently with the French national holiday of Bastille Day during World War I.

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L'emprunt de la libération

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