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CALL TO DUTY: WORLD WAR POSTERS Call to Duty: World War Posters is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania. All posters are courtesy of the Reading Public Museum.

# Image Artist Title Dated Country Adoption Price1 James Montgomery Flagg I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY 1917 American $2,500

2 Howard Chandler Christy GEE!! I WISH I WERE A MAN 1918 American $500

3 Howard Chandler Christy I WANT YOU for THE NAVY 1917 American $500

4 August William Hutaf TREAT 'EM ROUGH! 1917 American $500

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5 E. V. Kealey (also E. J. Kealey or Kealy)

WOMEN of BRITAIN SAY "GO!" 1915 English $500

6 Baron Low Everyone Shoud Do His Bit - Enlist Now

1915 European $500

7 attributed to Harry Lawrence Oakley

What will y our answer be when your boy askes, "Father, what did you do to help when Britain fought for freedom in 1915?"

1915 English $500

8 Johnson, Riddle & Company Parliamentary Recruiting Committee

A Happy New Year to our Gallant Soldiers

c. 1915 English $500

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9 Ellsworth Young Remember Belgium c. 1918 American $500

10 Josef Pierre Nuyttens Forget Me Not HELP SAVE THE BELGIAN BABIES

1917 American $500

11 Wladyslaw Theodor Benda Give or We Perish 1917 American $500

12 Ethel Franklin Betts Bains Lest We Perish c. 1917 American $500

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13 Emile Antoine Verpilleux The Polish Victims Relief Fund 1915 English $500

14 Francis Luis Mora The Health of the Child is the Power of the Nation WWI propaganda poster

1918 American $500

15 Lawrence Beall Smith Don't let that shadow touch them : buy war bonds.

1942 American $500

16 Harriet Nadeau "Deliver us from evil" 1943 American $500

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17 Glenn Grohe He's Watching You 1942 American $500

18 Ray Prohaska Careless talk got there first. 1944 American $500

19 Paul Albert Plaschke Tell it to the Marines, The SpIrit of Wake Island Against Overwhelming Odds

1941 - 1945

American $500

20 Allen Russell Saalburg --We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th!

1942 American $500

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21 Bernard Perlin AVENGE December 7 1942 American $500

22 P. Kolada ... remember me? I'm still fighting you!

c. 1944 American $500

23 Howard Chandler Christy Fight or Buy Bonds 1917 American $2,500

24 Henry Raleigh Hun or Home? 1918 American $500

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25 Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. NY

Remember! The Flag Of Liberty Support It!

1917-1918

American $500

26 Z. P. Nikolaki Hello! This is Liberty Speaking 1918 American $500

27 Daniel Sayre Groesbeck "Shall We Be More Tender with Our Dollars Than with the Lives of Our Sons"

1917 American $500

28 Frederick Strothmann Beat back the HUN with LIBERTY BONDS

1918 American $500

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29 William Haskell Coffin Joan of Arc Saved France 1918 American $500

30 Harry James Westerman Girls Do Your Duty c. 1917 - 1918

American $500

31 John Scott Williams For Victory Buy More Bonds FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

1918 American $500

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34 Norman Rockwell Freedom of Want 1943 American $500

35 Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech 1943 American $2,500

36 Norman Rockwell Freedom of Worship 1943 American $2,500

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37 Norman Rockwell Freedom from Fear 1943 American $2,500

38 Adolphe Dehn The Present with a Future...War Bonds

1942 American $500

39 Adolph Treidler Make Every Minute Count for Pershing

c. 1918 American $500

40 United States Shipping Board

On The Job For Victory 1917 American $500

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41 Hibberd Van Buren Kline TEAMWORK WINS 1917 American $500

42 Howard Scott Pass the Ammunition 1943 American $500

43 Henry Koerner United we are Strong / United we will win

1943 American $2,500

44 Eric Aldwinckle Whatever Your Job May Be Fight 1940's Canadian $500

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45 Roy Frederick Spreter TEACHING is war-work, too 1944 American $500

46 Wallace Morgan FEED a FIGHTER 1918 American $500

47 Charles Edward Chambers Food will win the war (poster in English will be inset in label)

1917 American $500

48 William Crawford Young Sir - don't waste while your wife saves Adopt the doctrine of the clean plate - do your share

1917 American $500

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49 Albert Hendee This is what GOD gives us 1917 American $500

50 Francis Luis Mora Don't let up Keep On Saving Food 1918 American $500

51 Steele United States Food Administration

Defeat the Kaiser and his U Boats 1917 American $500

52 William McKee The World Cry Food 1918 American $500

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53 Herbert Andrew Paus Save Food 1917 American $500

54 Harvey Dunn They Are Giving All Will You Send Them Wheat ?

1918 American $500

55 Carter Housh PRESERVE 1914-1918

American $500

56 U.S. School Garden Army, Bureau of Education, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C

HELPING HOOVER IN OUR U.S. SCHOOL GARDEN

1919 American $500

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57 Edward Penfield JOIN THE UNITED-STATES SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY ENLIST NOW

1917 American $500

58 James Montgomery Flagg Sow the seeds of Victory! 1918 American $2,500

59 Stevan Dohanos Fill It!...Help Harvest War Crops 1945 American $500

60 McClelland Barclay Save Your Cans, Help Pass the Ammunition

1943 American $500

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61 Albert Dorne Me travel? ... not this summer VACATION AT HOME

1945 American $500

62 Sidney H. Riesenberg CIVILIANS WHEN WE GO THROUGH THIS WE NEED ALL THE HELP AND COMFORT YOU CAN GIVE.

1918 American $500

63 Albert Herter His Home Over There 1918 American $500

64 Adolph Treidler For Every Fighter a Woman Worker

1918 American $500

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65 Edward Penfield The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need

1917 American $500

66 George Mather Richards THE SALVATION ARMY LASSIE 1918 American $500

67 William (Billy) Addison Ireland

A Real Patriot: Be a "School Sammy"

1918 American $500

68 Unknown Artist Girl Scouts Recruiting Campaign late 1910s - early 1920s

American $500

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69 David Urquhart Wilcox “We’ll Help You to Win the War, Dad,”with War Savings Stamps

nd American $500

70 Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Weapons for Liberty - USA Bonds 1918 American $500

71 James Montgomery Flagg Help him to help U.S.! 1918 American $500

72 Jessie Willcox Smith Have you a Red Cross Service Flag?

1918 American $500

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73 Alonzo E. Foringer The Greatest Mother in the World 1918 American $500

74 Alonzo E. Foringer Drawing of Miss Agnes Tait (the Model for Greatest Mother in the World)

1919 American $500

75 Geo Dorival Croix-Rouge Francaise 1916 French $500

76 Edith Emerson Sew for our Soldiers 1918 American $500

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77 Harrison Fisher Have you Answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call?

1918 American $2,500

78 Robert H. Porteus Women! Help America's sons win the war - Buy U.S. Government Bonds

1917 American $500

79 Wladyslaw T. Benda You can help 1918 American $500

80 Leonebel Jacobs Women of America Work for Victory

1918 $500

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81 Edward Penfield Every Girl Pulling For Victory 1918 American $500

82 Frederick G. Cooper Keep the Home Front Pledge 1944 American $500

83 Carolyn Moorehead Edmundson

Enlist in a Proud Profession!...Join the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps

1943 American $500

84 Jon Whitcomb Be a cadet nurse : the girl with a future.

1944 American $500

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85 John Joseph Floherty Jr., CPO USCGR

Your duty ashore ... his afloat : Spars

1944 American $500

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