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277. WWI “10,000,000 Members for Christmas” Red
Cross poster. (ca. 1918) One of the most decorative and
popular of the WWI Red Cross posters. Linen-backed (20 x
30 in.; 508 x 762 mm.), very fine. $200 - $300
278. WWI “I Summon You to Comradeship in the
Red Cross” poster. (1918) Exquisite stone-lithograph
designed by Harrison Fisher, seeking female volunteers
for the war effort. Linen-backed (29.5 x 39.75 in.; 750 x
1010 mm.), fine. $600 - $800
279. WWI “Universal Membership Week” Red Cross poster. (1918) An unusual small banner designed by Harrison Fisher for the
Red Cross. Linen-backed (8.5 x 42 in.; 216 x 1067 mm.), fine. $100 - $200
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280. WWI “I Summon You to the Comradeship” Red Cross
poster. (1918) Mielziner design is one of only a very few wartime
posters with Woodrow Wilson's image, this is probably the best.
Unfolded and unbacked (20 x 27.5 in.; 508 x 700 mm.), very fine.
$200 - $300
281. WWI “Hey Fellows!” American Library Association
poster. (1918) John Sheridan contributed many unique designs
to the war effort, and this for the American Library Association is
one of his finest. Linen-backed (20 x 30 in.; 508 x 762 mm.), fine.
$200 - $300
282. WWI “For Every Fighter a Woman Worker” Y.W.C.A.
poster.(1918) Adolph Treidler designed this popular image of a
young woman factory worker producing the weapons of war, quite
uncommon for WWI (but a necessary change for WWII to come,
with nearly all able-bodied men sent off to war). Unfolded and
unbacked (30 x 40 in.; 762 x 1016 mm.), very fine. $400 - $600
283. WWI “Clear-The-Way!” Howard Chandler Christy
war bond poster. (1918) One dealer says this may be the most
saleable poster anyone can offer. Howard Chandler Christy gives
us a trademark Christy girl in the sheer lingerie-draped figure
of “Columbia”, strapping sailors, big guns, and a good message.
Japon-paper backed (20 x 29.75 in.; 508 x 750 mm.), very fine.
$400 - $600
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284. WWI “Save Food and Defeat Frightfulness” food administration poster. (1918) Herbert Paus classic panorama of women,
children, nurses, elderly, and wounded soldiers, all bound with rope to a giant German Iron Cross. Linen-backed (36 x 56 in.; 914 x 1422
mm.), very good to fine. $300 - $500
285. WWI “Save the Meat for the Boys at the Front” food conservation trolley-card. (1918) Another fine Hohlwein-like
design from Britton in service of conservation issues to promote eating fish instead of meat, especially as fish was very difficult to preserve
for overseas shipment to the troops; this lovely little cardstock piece was used as a trolley or bus card. Cardstock as issued (21 x 11 in.;
533 x 280 mm.), very fine. $100 - $200
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286. WWI “Can Vegetables, Fruit and the Kaiser, Too” food
conservation poster. (1918) J. Paul Verrees’ design for home canning
to save commercial crops for soldiers is a very rare instance of humor
in WWI propaganda, an element reserved almost exclusively for
campaigns of the next great war. Cardstock as issued (22 x 33 in.; 560
x 838 mm.), fine with slight bumping to extremities. $400 - $600
287. WWI “Fight World Famine” The Boys’ Working
Reserve poster. (ca. 1918) A dramatic design for a little known
program of the Department of Labor in WWI. Unfolded and
unbacked (19 x 27.5 in.; 483 x 700 mm.), fine. $200 - $300
288. WWI “To-day Buy That Liberty Bond” and “That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth” (2) liberty bonds
posters. (1918) An oddity, this rising sun seemingly urges one to leap from bed at sunrise to buy Liberty Bonds. Together with a
miniature printing of the great Joseph Pennell poster of the Statue of Liberty in flames, under attack by enemy planes. Each unbacked
(approx. 7 x 10 in.; 180 x 254 mm.), former is very fine, latter is very good with old tape repair to verso. $100 - $200
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289. WWI “Launching Another Victory Ship” emergency fleet poster. (1918) A very large poster in fine condition, showing
Joseph Pennell's complete mastery of drawing industrial scenes. Pennell was the American equivalent of Frank Brangwyn, whose broad
stroke lithographs in England were especially notable. Linen-backed (40 x 60 in.; 1016 x 1524 mm.), fine to very fine. $400 - $600
290. WWI “That Liberty Shall Not Perish From the Earth”
war bond poster. (1918) Legendary, iconic Joseph Pennell
design of the Statue of Liberty in flames, under attack by enemy
planes. One of the most immediately recognizable images of
WWI. Japon-paper backed (29.5 x 40.75 in.; 750 x 1035 mm.),
very good. $400 - $600
291. WWI “Remember Belgium” war bond poster. (1918)
Newspapers characterized Germany's invasion of Belgium as the
“rape of little Belgium,” something this poster alludes to with great
drama. Ellsworth Young was a Midwestern book and magazine
illustrator and painter of landscapes. Japon-paper backed (20 x 30
in.; 508 x 762 mm.), fine. $200 - $300
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