Visual Materials

Preserve : co-operation

Description: Prints, advertising; Image of three individuals, a man wearing a hat labeled "Farmer," a man wearing an apron and a hat labeled "Dealer," and a woman wearing a uniform and a hat labeled "House Wife's League," standing in a line behind a table of food including a large basket of fruits and vegetables and canning jars, with Uncle Sam in the background; the poster promotes the canning and preserving campaign sponsored by the National Commercial Gas Association from June to November 1917 in the United States during World War I.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1917
Call number: priWWI_L_60
Provenance: Gift of Charles L. Heartwell, 1938.; Gift of Elizabeth Norris, June 2014.

Every girl pulling for victory : victory girls United War Work Campaign

Visual Materials

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Madison Square Theatre Co. : the professor

Visual Materials

Image of a central image of a full-length portrait of a man wearing glasses and holding one hand out towards the viewer and a hat in the other; surrounded by six vignettes of scenes consisting of a man standing on a chair about to hang himself with a noose; a man hitting another in a fist fight; a man falling out of a window; two women fighting each other; women attempting to restrain a violent man; and a man and a woman sitting on a bench and concealed by an umbrella who are presumably embracing; the poster advertises the comedy "The Professor" written by William Gillette.

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Visual Materials

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Buy your victory bonds

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Child slaves of New York

Visual Materials

Image of an Arab man, wearing a robe with a knife in his belt, grabbing a detective by the neck and choking him at the direction of an elderly man in a similar costume and headdress who stands behind a table labeled "Kaldah the mystic" with a star and crescent symbol, while a worried young woman in a pink dress, hat, and fur stole looks on; the poster advertises the melodrama "Child Slaves of New York" written by Charles E. Blaney and Howard Hall.

priJLC_ENT_000281

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