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World War I Poster and Ephemera Collection

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This collection contains approximately 700 World War I propaganda posters and related ephemera dating from approximately 1914 to 1919. The posters were created primarily for government and military agencies, as well as private charities such as the American Committee for Relief in the Near East. While the majority of the collection is American, it also includes British and French posters, and a few Austro-Hungarian/German, Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Polish, and Russian items.

The images and text of the posters reflect various messages chiefly related to military recruitment and enlistment, food and fuel conservation, aid for soldiers and humanitarian causes, war work, and savings and bond programs, including many that promote the Victory Liberty Loan and War Savings Stamp campaigns in the United States. The United States Committee on Public Information, U.S. Department of the Treasury, United States Food Administration, and the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation produced many of the posters.

More than 200 different artists are represented in the collection including James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, and Edward Penfield in the United States; Francisque Poulbot in France; and Alfred Roller in Austria-Hungary.

The collection includes more than 100 posters donated by Charles L. Heartwell (1869-1941), a banker and civic leader in Long Beach, California, who served in the United States Food Administration during World War I. These posters were acquired by Heartwell in his official capacity as a Food Administrator for Los Angeles County and occasionally reference regional recruiting stations in Long Beach. There are similar regionally focused posters for Connecticut and New York City in the collection.

Type
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Date
approximately 1914-1919
Call number
priWWI
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.
Associated people
Aderente, Vincent, (approximately 1880-1941,)
Adler, Jules, (1865-1952,)
Armstrong, Rolf, (1889-1960,)
Ashe, E. M., (1867-1941,)
Babcock, Richard Fayerweather, (1889-1975,)
Baker, Ernest Hamlin, (1889-1977,)
Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy, (1867-1947,)
Bancroft, Milton Herbert, (1873-1948,)
Banks, Jessie, (1882-1934,)
Bannister, Raymond, (1848-1936,)
Beadle, J. P., (1874-1948,)
Beckman, Rienecke, (1869-1936,)
Benda, Wladyslaw T. (1885-1937,)
Beneker, Gerrit A. (1867-1956,)
Benner, Many, (1881-1966,)
Bettsbains, E. F., (1874-1932,)
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, (1846-1927,)
Bonhajo, L., (1886-1974,)
Boomhower, Paul R., (1885-1948,)
Booth, Franklin, (approximately 1883-1941,)
Borgoni, Mario, (1880-1957,)
Boswell, R. C., (1873-1952,)
Bouisset, Firmin, (1843-1919,)
Bracker, M. Leone, (1878-1941,)
Brangwyn, Frank, (1883-1962,)
Bressler, Harry S., (1885-1943,)
Brey, Laura, (1851-1925,)
Britton, L. N., (1856-1919,)
Brown, Arthur William, (1889-1974,)
Bull, Charles Livingston, (1872-)
Burford, William B., (1865-1951,)
Bush, S. L., (1884-1952,)
Cahan, Samuel George, (1868-1940,)
Carleton, Clifford, (1867-1945,)
Cesare, Oscar Edward, (1874-1960,)
Chambers, Charles Edward, (1884-1944,)
Chavannaz, B., (1875-1934,)
Chavannaz, D., (1877-1960,)
Cheffer, Henry, (1852-1931,)
Cheptsov, Efim Mikhailovich, (1878-1948,)
Christy, Howard Chandler, (1885-1962,)
Clairin, Georges, (1869-1956,)
Clark, F. O., (1874-1933,)
Clark, Henry E., (1869-1942,)
Clinker, L. C., (1867-1944,)
Coffin, Haskell, (1876-1955,)
Cooper, Fred G. (1875-1962,)
Coughlin, John A. (1877-1964,)
Courboin, E. (-1950,)
Cox, Kenyon, (1878-1950,)
Craig, Wilson, (1868-)
Daugherty, James, (1885-1970,)
de Coninck, Robert, (1871-1950,)
De Land, Eugenie, (1899-1977,)
Dewey, (1876-1930,)
Dresser, L. T., (1887-1928,)
Droit, Jean, (1879-1942,)
DuMond, Frank Vincent, (1894-1932,)
Dunn, E. A., (1880-1947,)
Dunn, Harvey, (1877-1918,)
Dwyer, M. J., (1885-)
Edrop, Arthur N., (1884-1946,)
Emerson, Casper, (1862-1934,)
Erler, Fritz, (1871-1954,)
Esselen, H. Blyleven, (1877-1924,)
Ethridge, Scott, (1874-1951,)
Fairman, E., (1880-1940,)
Faivre, Abel, (1881-1952,)
Falls, C. B. (1871-1934,)
Falter, Marcel, (-1951,)
Fancher, Louis D., (1880-1964,)
Fisher, Harrison, (1882-1960,)
Flagg, James Montgomery, (1874-1940,)
Forain, Jean Louis, (1876-1946,)
Foringer, A. E. (1868-1930,)
Forsythe, Vic, (1876-1934,)
Fouqueray, Charles, (1886-)
Fuhr, E. (1861-1945,)
Genthe, Arnold, (1880-1946,)
Gibson, Charles Dana, (1866-1925,)
Giles, Howard, (1857-1926,)
Gottsdanker, Cozzy, (1891-1960,)
Grant, Gordon, (1890-1971,)
Grebs, Emil, (1879-1946,)
Green, H. H., (1869-1956,)
Greenleaf, Ray, (1880-1945,)
Groesbeck, Dan Sayre, (1871-1925,)
Guenther, (1880-1958,)
Gutz, M. Richard, (1864-1935,)
Haimovitz, C., (1854-1931,)
Halsted, Frances Adams, (1887-1946,)
Harris, Lawren, (1879-1960,)
Hendee, A., (1896-1957,)
Henry, J., (1866-1940,)
Herter, Albert, (1875-1965,)
Hoertz, Frederick J., (1867-1923,)
Krieghoff, William G., (1879-1967,)
Housh, Carter, (1863-1935,)
Hutaf, August William, (1872-1957,)
Ickes, (1883-1953,)
Illian, George, (1863-1946,)
Ingres, Maurice, (1859-1923,)
Jonas, Lucien, (1890-1971,)
Jordan, Clinton, (1870-1942,)
Ker, William Balfour, (1872-)
Kidder, (1874-1921,)
King, W. B., (1868-1920,)
Kline, Hibberd V. B. (1886-1981,)
Kliz, (1857-1918,)
Langaskens, Maurice, (1888-1964,)
Léandre, Charles, (1889-)
Lemaire, Germaine, (1856-1935,)
Leroux, Jules Marie Auguste, (1888-1942,)
Leyendecker, Frank X., (1874-1956,)
Leyendecker, J. C. (1857-1926,)
Lie, Jonas, (1877-1975,)
Lipscombe, Guy, (1856-1927,)
Love, C. W., (1880-1948,)
Luria-Fowler, (1872-1951,)
Macauley, C. R. (1875-1933,)
MacKinnon, (1886-)
Maksimov, Aleksei Fedorovich, (1869-1941,)
Malherbe, William,
Mazza, Aldo,
McBride, R.,
McCay, Winsor,
Meyer, Herbert W.
Mielziner, Leo,
Moore, Bruce,
Mora, F. Luis
Morgan, Chas,
Morgan, R. G.,
Morgan, Wallace,
Myers, Lloyd,
Naudin, Bernard,
Neumont, Maurice,
Norton, John Warner,
Orr, Alfred Everitt,
Porteous, R. H.,
Partridge, Bernard,
Paus, Herbert Andrew,
Penfield, Edward,
Pennell, Joseph,
Perrigard, Hal Ross,
Petersham, Maud,
Picard, Marcel,
Poulbot, Francisque,
Raemaekers, Louis,
Raleigh, Henry,
Rapeno, A.,
Ravenhill, L.,
Redon, Georges,
Reilly, Frank,
Reuterdahl, Henry,
Rice, Burton,
Richards, George M.
Riesenberg, Sidney H.,
Robaudi, A.
Roberts, Hazel,
Roeg, Herman,
Roller, Alfred,
Rogers, W. A.
Romberg, Maurice,
Ross, J. D.,
Ruttan, Charles E.,
Sampson, Joseph Ernest,
Sarka, Charles N.
Schneck,
Scott, Georges,
Sesser, W. G.,
Sewell, Helen,
Shafer, L. A.
Sheridan, John E.,
Shirer, Hampton F. (Hampton Francis),
Simon, Jacques,
Sindelar, Thomas A.,
Smith, Frank Vining,
Smith, Jessie Willcox,
Spaulding,
Spear, Gil,
St. John, J. Allen
Stahr, Paul,
Sterner, Albert,
Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre,
Stern, Joseph,
Stevens, William Dodge,
Still, Roy Hull,
Strothmann, F.
Taylor, F. Walter
Tornrose, A. T.
Townsend, F. H.
Treidler, Adolph,
Abel-Truchet, Louis,
Underwood, Clarence F.,
Verpilleux, Emile,
Verrees, J. Paul,
Volk, Douglas,
Waddell, M.,
Wardle, Arthur,
Watkins, K.,
Welsh, H. Devitt,
Whitehead, Walter,
Wilbur, L. L.,
Willette, Adolphe,
Williams, J. Scott
Woodville, Richard Caton,
Woolf, S. J.
Wright, George Hand,
Yohn, F. C.
Young, William Crawford,
Young, Ellsworth,
Charles, Joseph.
Thomas, Geo. P.
Horsham, P. G.
Devney, R. E.
Volk, L.
Zlotnikov, F.
Heartwell, Charles L.,
Associated organizations
Abbey Press.
Acme Litho. Co.
Alco-Gravure.
Alles Show Print.
Allied Printing.
Alpha Litho Co.
Amalgamated Lithographers of America.
American Lithographic Co.
Andrew Reid & Co.
Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, Inc.
Beck Engraving Company.
Bemrose & Sons.
Berger-Levrault (Firm)
Bookwalter-Ball Printing Co.
Capital Pub. Inc.
Carey Printing Company.
Central Litho. Co.
Century Company.
Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd.
Commercial Prtg. & Litho. Co.
Conwell Graphic Companies.
Coquemer, Imp.
David Allen & Sons.
Devambez (firm)
E.S. & A. Robinson Limited.
Eckstein und Stahle (Stuttgart)
Edward Stern & Co.
Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co.
Ets. Ruckert & Co. L. Godde, Sr.
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company.
Foster and Kleiser Company.
Gatchel & Manning Company.
Georgia War Savings Committee.
Gibson Brothers (Printers)
Gill Engraving Co.
Globe Lithographing Co.
Graphic Company.
Great Britain.
Greenwich Litho. Co.
H.C. Miner Litho. Co.
Hamilton Press.
Harris Lithographing Co.
Hegeman Print.
Henry Jenkinson Ltd.
Herschman & Cardy.
Heywood, Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co.
Howe Addressing Co.
Howell Lith. Co. Limited.
Illinois Litho. Co.
Imprimerie Chaix.
Imprimerie Charles Verneau (Paris, France)
Imp. Cornille & Serre.
Imprimerie Crété.
Imprimerie F. Champenois.
Imp. H. Chachoin.
Imprimerie J.-E. Goossens.
Imp. La Chromographie Française.
Imprimerie de Vaugirard.
Imprimerie Monrocq (Paris, France)
Imprimerie nationale (France)
J.H. Tooker Litho. Co.
John H. Eggers Co.
Johnson, Riddle & Co.
Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company.
Lapina Imp.
Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co.
Leslie-Judge Company.
Louis Roesch Co.
Lutz & Sheinkman Litho.
Rusling Wood, Litho.
Magill-Weinsheimer Co.
Manternach Company.
Manz Engraving Co.
Martinet.
Matthews-Northrup Works.
Merchants.
Metro Litho. Co.
Miles & Co., Ltd.
Military Training Camps Association (U.S.)
Montreal Litho. Co.
Morgan Litho Company.
National Capital Press, Inc.
National Printing & Engraving Company (U.S.)
National War Savings Committee (U.S.)
New Columbus Lithograph Co.
New Era Press.
New-Art Lithographic Company.
Niagara Lithograph Co.
Ohio Litho. Co.
Otis Lithograph Co.
Parker-Brawner Co.
Phillips, A. M. L.
Press U.S. Navy Mobilization Bureau.
Public Ledger Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Quadri-Color Co.
R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company.
Regensteiner Colortype Co.
Robert Gair (Firm)
Roberts & Leete, Ltd.
Romwell Press.
Rotoprint Gravure Co.
Ryan & Hart Co.
Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Prt. Co.
Schmidt Litho. Co.
Seargeant Bros. Ltd.
Seiter & Kappes Litho Co.
Smith & Porter (Boston, Mass.)
Spottiswoode & Co.
Star Co.
Stone Ltd.
Straker Brothers Limited.
Strobridge Lithographing Company.
T.F. Moore Co.
Knapp Co., Inc.
Thomsen-Ellis Company.
Thomson Printing Co.
United States.
United States.
United States Food Administration.
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
United States Printing and Lithograph Co.
United Cigar Stores Company.
United States.
Van Dyck Gravure Co.
W.F. Powers Co.
Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.
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