World War I Posters

During World War I, the impact of the poster as a means of communication was greater than at any other time during history.  Posters were able to inspire, inform, and persuade and were often combined with vibrant design trends. All posters displayed in the Research, Remembrances and Reflections of the Great War exhibition are digital surrogates of original posters housed in the Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library.  Digital images courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WWI Posters.

 

  • Come on! Buy more Liberty Bonds / Walter Whitehead 1918.Philadelphia: Ketterlinus, 1918.
  • My soldier.  Buy United States government bonds--Third Liberty Loan / H.H. Green. The Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, Cleveland, and New York, [1917].
  • Premiers au feu means in French first to fight, in English U.S. Marines / C. B. Falls. [1917].
  • U.S. Marines - first to fight in France for freedom.  Enlist with the "soldiers of the sea" / F.C. Yohn.  [between 1914 and 1918].
  • Joan of Arc saved France--Women of America, save your country--Buy War Savings Stamps / Haskell Coffin. New York: The United States Printing & Lithograph Co., [1918].
  • U.S. Marines - active service - land, sea, air /[between 1914 and 1918].
  • U.S. Marines, Uncle Sam's right hand / R. McBride. [1917].
  • Victory is a question of stamina--Send - the wheat, meat, fats, sugar--The fuel for fighters United States Food Administration / Harvey Dunn, 1917.
  • Answer the Red Cross Christmas roll call. All you need is a heart and a dollar / Ray Greenleaf. Buffalo, New York: Niagara Litho. Co., c1918.
  • Save [...] and serve the cause of freedom / Frederic G. Cooper. The W. F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y. [1917].
  • We belong 100% strong. 1920.

  • A little starving child brought back to life, because you went without some luxury. All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief. [1917].