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- Description:
- World War I poster with the message, "Victory is a Question of Stamina. Send - the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar - the fuel for Fighters." The poster shows a color drawing of two infantrymen who are charging across a snow-covered field. The artist's name, "Harvey Dunn, 1917," is shown near the lower right corner of the drawing. "United States Food Administration" is printed in black text along the bottom of the poster.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- World War II poster with the message, "A Salute To Our Fighting Dads, Father's Day, June 18." The poster shows a color drawing of a father in uniform with two children and a grandfather in the background. Additional text along the bottom of the poster shows "The Strongest of Bonds ... Your Dad and Your Country. Buy a Bond For Father's Day." Small printed text in the lower right corner shows "Copyright 1944, National Council for the Promotion of Father's Day, Inc." Small printed text in the lower right corner shows "Printed in U.S.A."
- Date Issued:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Poster, printed in black text on white paper and mounted on linen, titled "The Ten Commandments of Womanhood." Prepared by the President of the Connecticut Congress of Mothers and issued by the Connecticut State Council of Defense in 1918. The text of the poster is as follows: "Thou Shalt Not Waste Time, for idleness is shame and sloth a mockery; and lo! the day cometh when they men shall be called from the harvest and their workshops stand empty and silent. Thou Shalt Not Waste Substance, for once, thrice and ten times shall thy country call upon thine household for gold, and woe betide the land if at the last thy purses be found bare. Thou Shalt Not Waste Bread, for every fragment that falls idly from thy board is withheld from the mouths of thine allies' children, and the kits of thy sons and brothers in the trenches. Thou Shalt Not Bedeck Thyself Lavishly, for the silk upon thy back and the jewel upon thy breast are symbols of dishonor in the hour of Earth's agony and thy nation's peril. Thou Shalt Not Be Vain and Self-Seeking, for the froward and jealous heart judgeth itself in the sight of the Lord; and in the time of world travail who shall say to her sister, 'I did it and thou didst it not.' Hearten Thy Men and Weep Not, for a strong woman begetteth a strong man, and the blasts of adversity blow hard and swift across the world. Bind Up the Wounds of Thy Men and Soften Their Pain, for thy presence by the light of their campfires is sweet and grateful, and the touch of thy hand deft in the hour of need. Keep Thou the Faith of Thy Mothers, for in the years of thy country's sacrifice for Independence and Union they served valiantly and quailed not. Keep Thou the Family Fruitful and Holy, for upon it the Lord shall rebuild His broken peoples. Serve Thou the Lord Thy God with Diligence, for His houses of worship shall not be empty nor His altars unvisited, in the years of His mighty chastening."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- World War I poster with the message, "For Your Boy." Message text is printed in red and black on a white background. The poster has a color drawing of a soldier who is holding a cup of coffee that is being poured by a war relief worker. A "Y.M.C.A." sign can be seen in the background. The artist's name, "Arthur William Brown," is shown at the lower left corner of the drawing. Additional printed text along the bottom of the poster shows "United War Work Campaign - November 11-18, 1918." Small printed text at the lower right corner of the poster shows "Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity" and "Ketterlinus, Phila."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Poster. Contains a clipping from the May 16, 1867 edition of the Advertiser and Tribune, commemorating the laying of the first stone for City Hall, along with a transcription of the article. At the top of the poster is text reading "First Stone of the New City Hall 1867," followed by the clipping which is inset inside a thin black border. The clipping is surrounded by the following names: Mayor - Merrill I. Mills, City Clerk - Henry Starkey, City Treasurer - E.S. Leadbeater, City Attorney - T.H. Hartwell, City Controller - A.H. Pedfield, City Counselor - William Gray. The bottom half of the poster contains the transcription of the article, as follows: "Laying the First Stone of the New City Hall Early this forenoon, the first stone of the new City Hall was placed in position. The large blocks, six and a half feet in width are easily handled by means of the huge derrick employed. A bed of water lime mortar is first prepared, which, filling any cavities either in the stone or the clay below, gives a firm bearing for the foundation and will do much to prevent settling. The first stone was laid without any formalities though quite a little crowd assembled to see the performance. As the structure thus commenced is one likely to endure for centuries, the record of this fact will be a matter of interest to future generations, when all now living will have laid for ages in their graves and the administration of Andrew Johnson will be regarded as a very early period in the history of the Republic. Fancy the interest that would now be awakened by the discovery in some old file of newspapers (if such were possible) of a record of the exact day and hour of the laying of the first stone of the ancient Westminster Abbey or the Tower of London, yet such interest will the files of the Advertiser and Tribune afford to the antiquary of the twenty-fourth century if not of the twenty-ninth, in relation to the venerable old pile then known as the Detroit City Hall."
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- World War II poster with the messages, "If You Can't Go Across - Come Across!" and "Produce!" Additional printed text along the bottom shows "Keep 'Em Firing!" The top of the poster shows a color drawing of soldiers, military vehicles, and a warship. At the center of the poster, there is a color drawing of a workman who is operating a machine tool in a manufacturing plant. Small printed text in the lower left corner shows "Copyright 1942 - Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corporation, Lansing, Michigan."
- Date Issued:
- 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One advertisement poster for D.M. Ferry & Company. The poster shows a color drawing of a man who is dressed in hunter's clothing and is carrying a gun, backpack, and box of Ferry's Seeds. He is walking across rugged terrain while another person is carrying a canoe in the left background. Printed text in the upper left and lower right corners shows "Used Everywhere" and "For Sale Here." Small printed text in the lower left corner shows "Copyright by D.M.Ferry & Co."
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- World War I poster with the messages, "Oh, Boy! That's the Girl!" and "The Salvation Army Lassie, Keep Her on the Job." The poster shows a color drawing of a young woman in a service uniform who has just served a doughnut to a soldier. The artist's name, G. M. Richards, is shown near the lower left corner of the drawing. Printed text along the bottom shows "United War Work Campaign" and "November 11th-18th, 1918." Small printed text near the lower right corner shows "Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, N.Y."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- World War I poster with the messages, "Will You Help the Women of France?" and "Save Wheat." The color poster shows a drawing of three women who are pulling a rudimentary plow across a field. Printed text along the bottom of the poster shows "They are struggling against starvation and are going to feed not only themselves and children; but their husbands and sons who are fighting in the trenches." The poster was designed for the United States Food Administration by Edward Penfield whose name is shown in the lower left corner of the drawing.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Two-sided Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company poster. The recto advertises a "Summer Programme of Grand Excursions from Detroit to Port Huron, Toledo, Lakeside, and St. Clair City, on the floating palace steamer CITY OF DETROIT." An engraving of the CITY OF DETROIT passing the NORTHWEST is also featured. A map showing the regular daily and excursion routes of the D&C line, done by Edward Moliter of the Calvert Lithograph Company of Detroit is on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1881-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
