The Winds and Words of War: World War I Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Collection

The Winds and Words of War: World War I Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library CollectionDescription By Allison Hays Lane Paperback Commissioned by the U. S. Committee on Public Information, more than 300 of Americas most famous illustrators, cartoonists, designers, and fine artists donated their services to create more than 700 posters in an effort to build patriotism, raise funds for war bonds, encourage enlistment, and increase volunteerism during World War I. The Winds and Words of War is a rich collection of World War I era posters

This poster features a reproduction of the 1917 recruitment poster for the U

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Schiller was transferred to the Western Front

Technical journals were banned as enemy propaganda

World War I came at an inopportune time for China

LLC/Baseball - America's Pastime

Truth was sold three times and had five children before she escaped with her infant daughter to a nearby abolitionist family in 1826

Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric of self-determination but battered by the harsh realities of segregation

vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot

across Europe and the Ottoman Empire

others contain wrenching accounts of fear