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Print
Poster: Lend the way they Fight - Buy Bonds to your UTMOST
Edmund (Edward) M. Ashe, (New York NY, 1867 - 1941, Westport CT)
Ashe, Edmund (Edward) M.
United States
1867 - 1941
Male
41 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (104.8 x 69.2 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
1917
1917
war
Print
American World War I posters depicting men, while idealized, often focused on real life figures like soldiers, workers, and fathers. Women, on the other hand, were most often represented as personifications - of our country, humanity, or the Red Cross.
This poster moves beyond the abstract realm and thrusts the viewer into a gritty reality. A torn and tattered soldier fights for his life on the battlefield. Wielding both rifle and grenade, this dynamic figure fearlessly crosses "No Man's Land" to attack the enemy trench. A reminder to those at home-men are giving their lives in the trenches, the least you can do is lend your money to support their sacrifices.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
1973.172
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
73.172DI1
digital image
full
2/22/2006
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Print
Poster: Clear-The-Way!! Buy Bonds - Fourth Liberty Loan
Howard Chandler Christy, 1873 - 1952
Christy, Howard Chandler
United States
1873 - 1952
Male
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
Print
The Christy Girl-part goddess, part girl-next-door-was a popular figure created by illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. In his war posters, the artist often used the Christy Girl, plus a heady dose of sex appeal, to convey the message "real men go to war."
In Clear-The-Way!! Columbia wears an alluring, diaphanous white dress as she presides over muscled, testosterone-fueled soldiers manning guns on a ship. The contradiction is palpable; Columbia calls the virile soldiers to war as her soft lines and open mouth beckon to the viewer.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
Printed by Forbes, Boston.
1973.180
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
73.180DI1
digital image
full
2/22/2006
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Print
Poster: If You Want to Fight! - Join the Marines
Howard Chandler Christy, 1873 - 1952
Christy, Howard Chandler
United States
1873 - 1952
Male
Primary
40 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (102.2 x 76.5 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1915
1915
1915
6
war, women
Print
The Christy Girl-- part goddess, part girl-next-door-- was a popular figure created by illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. In his war posters, the artist often used the Christy Girl, plus a heady dose of sex appeal, to convey the message "real men go to war."
In If You Want to Fight! a young woman plays "dress up" in Marine uniform. Her playful posturing enhances the masculine nature of war; while she wears her uniform to be fetching, the soldiers wear their uniforms to go to battle.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
2022.19
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/29/2006
2022.19DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.19DI#2
digital image
00/00/00
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2022.19DI#3
digital image
9/1/2023
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Print
Poster: The Sword is Drawn...The Navy Upholds It!
Kenyon Cox, 1856 - 1919
Cox, Kenyon
United States
1856 - 1919
Male
42 1/16 x 28 1/16 in. (106.8 x 71.3 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
1917
1917
Print
Columbia (the female personification of the United States of America) is strong and powerful in this Navy recruiting poster. The bold and graphic style of the poster contributes to the sense of her overwhelming presence.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
1973.165
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
73.165DI1
digital image
full
3/1/2006
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Print
Poster: Books Wanted for Our Men in Camp And "Over There"
Charles Buckles Falls, 1874 - 1959
Falls, Charles Buckles
United States
1874 - 1959
Male
41 3/4 x 28 in. (106 x 71.1 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
Print
The vertical, smiling soldier in Books Wanted highlights the soldier's intellectual and emotional needs. Falls was a master at using composition, color and text to make his posters to convey a message.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
lower left, in the platelower left, in the platelower right
1971.77
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
71.77DI1
digital image
full
3/1/2006
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Print
Poster: E-E-E-Yah-Yip - Go Over with U.S. Marines
Charles Buckles Falls, 1874 - 1959
Falls, Charles Buckles
United States
1874 - 1959
Male
Primary
28 x 21 1/8 in. (71.1 x 53.7 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
1917
1917
42
war
Print
Charles Buckles Falls captures the dynamism and fearlessness of a warrior wtih the bright orange color and strong diagonal composition of E-E-E-Yah-Yip. Falls was a master at using composition, color and text to convey a message.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
2022.23
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/3/2006
2022.23DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.23DI#2
digital image
full
8/30/2006
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2022.23DI#1
digital image
00/00/00
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2022.23DI#4
digital image
9/1/2023
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Print
Poster: I Want You For U.S. Army
James Montgomery Flagg, 1877 - 1960
Flagg, James Montgomery
United States
1877 - 1960
Male
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
1917
1917
Print
In the most famous of American recruiting posters, Uncle Sam (the male personification of the United States of America) demands your participation in the U.S. Army. The Army printed over four million copies of I Want You during the First World War. James Montgomery Flagg's depiction of Uncle Sam, reportedly modeled on the artists' own features, has become iconic. Uncle Sam's paternal appearance and forceful call to action heroized soldiers and one's duty to the country.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
1971.50
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
71.50DI#1
digital image
full
8/30/2006
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Print
Poster: Wake Up, America! Civilization Calls Every Man, Woman and Child!
James Montgomery Flagg, 1877 - 1960
Flagg, James Montgomery
United States
1877 - 1960
Male
42 x 28 1/8 in. (106.7 x 71.4 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
1917
1917
Print
A personification is an artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person. Traditional personifications of the United States, like Uncle Sam and Columbia/America, were common in war propaganda. Columbia is a conflicting presence in American World War I posters; sometimes she is pliant and beckoning, other times solid and fearsome. The preponderance of idealized females in WWI posters, in comparison to the few representations of "real" women, contradicted the reality of American women's growing participation in factories, farms, and hospitals.
In Wake Up, America!, America dozes while the fires of war rage in the distance. Her feminine, passive characteristics-soft arms, limp hand, and white, exposed neck-are an indictment in this poster. The artist, James Montgomery Flagg, admonishes Americans to wake up and prepare for war.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
1973.169
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
73.169DI1
digital image
full
3/1/2006
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/73.169_A1.jpg
Print
Poster: Are YOU a Victory Canner?
Leonebel Jacobs, (1883 - 1967)
Jacobs, Leonebel
United States
1883 - 1967
Female
Primary
22 x 14 in. (55.9 x 35.6 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
4
war
Print
America struggled to feed its soldiers, as well as the many European civilians at risk of starvation during the war. Propaganda directed primarily towards women advocated conserving food by planting "Victory Gardens," canning, and eating less wheat and meat. Food conservation was one way American women were wholeheartedly encouraged to participate in the war effort. Clever slogans like "If U fast U beat U boats" and "Serve beans by all means" were common.
On a more ominous note, the Food Administration enlisted twenty million homemakers to keep watchful eyes on neighbors suspected of not following conservation rules.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
2022.30
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/4/2006
2022.30DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.30DI#2
digital image
full
8/30/2006
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2022.30DI#3
digital image
00/00/00
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2022.34DI#4
digital image
9/1/2023
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Print
Poster: For Home and Country - Victory Liberty Loan
Alfred Everitt Orr, 1886 -
Orr, Alfred Everitt
United States
1886
Male
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
Print
During five Liberty Loan campaigns, Americans bought twenty billion dollars in bonds to support the war. The final campaign, the Victory Liberty Loan, began after the war ended. The government still needed to pay for the travel, medical care, shelter, and sustenance for the millions of American soldiers remaining in Europe.
The reunion of this idealized, Anglo-American family illustrates the ideal outcome of the war. A healthy soldier/husband returns from the war into the loving arms of his wife and son. The German helmet that hangs from the soldier's neck, a common war trophy, strikes a somewhat brutal and discordant note to our modern eyes.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
Printed by American Lithographic Co., New York.
1973.175
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
73.175DI1
digital image
full
2/22/2006
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73.175DI2
digital image
detail - lower left corner
2/22/2006
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73.175DI3
digital image
detail - lower right corner
2/22/2006
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Print
Poster: The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need - Apply Y.W.C.A.
Edward Penfield, 1866 - 1925
Penfield, Edward
United States
1866 - 1925
Male
24 3/4 x 30 in. (62.9 x 76.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
Print
America's youth were encouraged to participate in supporting the war. Groups like the Boys' Working Reserve and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Land Service Committee trained young men and women to relieve the labor shortage on America's farms.
In The Girl on the Land, artist Edward Penfield emphasizes the serenity of the scene with cool, bucolic greens and yellows. Far from the battlefield, America's young women serve their nation's need for food production through camaraderie and mutual support.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
in the stone
1972.66
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
glossy
8x10
00/00/00
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72.66DI1
digital image
full
3/1/2006
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Print
Poster: Have YOU a Red Cross Service Flag?
Jessie Willcox Smith, 1863 - 1935
Smith, Jessie Willcox
United States
1863 - 1935
Female
28 x 21 in. (71.1 x 53.3 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
Print
Printed by Forbes, Boston
lower right, in image
1973.26.1
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
73.26.1DI1
digital image
full
3/1/2006
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Print
Poster: Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle
Adrian Gil Spear, (1885 - 1965)
Spear, Adrian Gil
United States
1885 - 1965
Male
Primary
27 1/4 x 19 13/16 in. (69.2 x 50.3 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
10
Print
Twentieth century warfare demands that the blood of the soldier must be mingled with from three to five parts of the sweat of the men in the factories, mills, mines, and fields.
- Howard Coffin, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1915
The dependence upon American workers to support the war effort was great. In Lend Your Strength, a factory worker's musculature embodies the country's physical strength. The worker casts a soldier's shadow, correlating the sweat in the factories with the blood on the battlefield.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
2022.25
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/4/2006
2022.25DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.25DI#2
digital image
9/1/2023
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Print
Poster: Make Every Minute Count for Pershing
Adolph Treidler, (Westcliff, CO, 1886 - 1981, Flemington, NJ)
Treidler, Adolph
United States
1886 - 1981
Male
Primary
28 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (71.4 x 56.5 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
1917
1917
40
war
Print
The Emergency Fleet Corporation could not build ships fast enough to replace those destroyed by German U-boats. In Make Every Minute Count, the monumental shipyard worker is focused and efficient. He makes every minute count for General Pershing, the military leader of the American forces.
Wartime posters of factory laborers emphasized their physical strength and masculinity. Despite women's crucial wartime involvement in the factories, it was not until the Second World War that strong and capable female laborers, like Rosie the Riveter, appeared in propaganda.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
2022.31
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/4/2006
2022.31DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.31DI#2
digital image
full
8/30/2006
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2022.31DI#3
digital image
00/00/00
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2022.34DI#4
digital image
9/1/2023
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Print
Poster: Fight World Famine
American artist, (active )
American artist
United States
Primary
27 5/8 x 19 in. (70.2 x 48.3 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
ca. 1917-1918
1917
1918
42
war
Print
America's youth were encouraged to participate in supporting the war. Groups like the Boys' Working Reserve and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Land Service Committee trained young men and women to relieve the labor shortage on America's farms.
In Fight World Famine, a young farmer of the Boys' Working Reserve wards off threatening vultures with his pitchfork. More soldier than farmer; his heroism is evident in the fearless and singular battle he wages amidst apocalyptic surroundings.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
Printed for the U.S. Employment Service, Department of Labor, Baltimore
2022.27
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/4/2006
2022.27DI#2
digital image
00/00/00
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2022.27DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.27DI#3
digital image
9/1/2023
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Print
Poster: My Daddy Bought Me a Government Bond of the Third Liberty Loan
American artist, (active )
American artist
United States
Primary
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
1917
1917
32
war
Print
Printed by U.S. Printing & Lithograph Co., New York
2022.28
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/4/2006
2022.28DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.28DI#2
digital image
full
8/30/2006
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2022.28DI#3
digital image
00/00/00
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2022.28DI#4
digital image
9/1/2023
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Print
Poster: Remember! The Flag of Liberty - Support It!
Griswold G. Tyng, (Boston, MA, 1883 - 1962, Boston, MA)
Tyng, Griswold G.
United States
1883 - 1962
Male
Primary
30 x 20 1/16 in. (76.2 x 51 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917-1918
1917
1918
18
war
Print
What is the "American family"? In 1918, the answer to this question was a fluid one. A large percentage of the Euro-American population was foreign born, and the war brought about some suspicion of their allegiance. In Remember! The Flag of Liberty, an immigrant family has just arrived in America. Viewers can simultaneously see the hopeful faces of the family as well as the object of their gaze, the American flag. The flag, a potent symbol of freedom, was meant to remind immigrants that their loyalty should lay with America.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
Printed by Heywood Strasser & Voight Litho. Co., New York.
2022.24
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/4/2006
2022.24DI#1
digital image
full
3/28/2006
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2022.24DI#2
digital image
full
8/30/2006
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2022.24DI#1
digital image
00/00/00
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2022.24DI#4
digital image
9/1/2023
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Watercolor
Street in Verdun
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
7 5/16 x 11 1/8 in. (18.5 x 28.2 cm)
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overall
horizontal
sheet
Gouache
Gouache
1919
1919
1919
84.051
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, ruins, war, watercolors
Watercolor
After the war, John Wenrich stayed in Europe and sketched the cities and landscapes of France. In this bleak sketch of the French city of Verdun, dated January 18, 1919, Wenrich captured the devastation of modern warfare; a sight most Americans had little experience viewing first hand. The Battle of Verdun, a year-long battle that ended before America entered the war, resulted in nearly one million casualties and was the bloodiest battle of the war.
[Gallery label text]
lower right, in imageversoversoversoverso, first 2 letters in ink
2003.50
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.50DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2003.50SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
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Drawing
War Torn Country Near Verdun
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (23.5 x 29.5 cm)
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overall
horizontal
sheet
Graphite
Graphite
1919
1919
1919
98.010
by Rochester artists, drawing
Drawing
After the war, John Wenrich stayed in Europe and sketched the cities and landscapes of France. In this bleak sketch of the French city of Verdun, dated January 18, 1919, Wenrich captured the devastation of modern warfare; a sight most Americans had little experience viewing first hand. The Battle of Verdun, a year-long battle that ended before America entered the war, resulted in nearly one million casualties and was the bloodiest battle of the war.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
lower right, in imageversoverso
2003.98
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.98DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2003.98SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
00/00/00
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Drawing
Where We Stopped
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
5 1/4 x 8 in. (13.3 x 20.3 cm)
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image
Graphite
Graphite
1918
1918
1918
98.026
by Rochester artists, drawing
Drawing
One and a half years after the United States entered the war, the Armistice put an end to the battle at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918. Rochester artist and soldier, John C. Wenrich, documented the hillside where he and his battalion "stopped" at the moment the Armistice called an end to the brutal and bloody war.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
2003.75
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.75DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2003.75SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
00/00/00
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