Poster showing a Red Cross nurse in a cloak, extending her hand. No. 9552.

Poster showing a Red Cross banner and a candle in a window with a Christmas tree in the background.

Poster showing marines operating a large cannon on a ship. Title from item.

Poster showing an angry cat atop a tank. Additional text, explaining the program and where to report, has been pasted onto the poster in two pieces.

U.S. Marine Corps recruitment poster showing a soldier holding a rifle and standing in the bow of a small boat.

Poster showing a girl plowing. Text continues: Write to The United States School Garden Army, Bureau of Education, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003.

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Joyce Yuki Nakamura, bust portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-19. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.

Poster shows a man with a shamrock on his track suit jumping over a group of soldiers. Emblem of Overseas Irish Canadian Rangers on left side of poster. Title from item.

Poster in the style of a stock certificate, decorated with an eagle and "The torch of Liberty." W.S.S. War Savings Stamps issued by the United States Government. Title from item.

Tammany Hall's political manipulation of the New York Fire Department is the artist's obvious target here, although the print's precise meaning is unclear. The frame of reference may be the creation, in 1839, of a number of "paper" fire companies by the Tammany-controlled city council, a measure devised to give them a significant number of new voting representatives on the Board of Foremen and Assistants. The companies were organized by loyal Tammanyites during June of that year and nicknamed "June Bugs" by an indignant public. The artist shows a number of firemen spraying water on a fire in the building of "Willis, Nichols, Howe, Timpson, Lee & Co." On the backs of their coats symbols, indicative of their trades or businesses (including a druggist's mortar and pestle, a poundcake, a mason's trowel), have been painted by a man who runs off to the right announcing, "24 new Companies. Mr. Chief at your service." Conspicuous on the far left is a man, possibly Democratic mayor Isaac Varian, who watches saying, "This 'werry' plan I recommended in my Message." From the new "firemen" come the following remarks: "Collecting taxes pays better than this." "I must be either Commissioner or property saver." "I'll bet $100 he'll be Chief." "I didn't know there was to be an election tomorrow night" (possibly alluding to the controversial 1839 election of a new chief engineer of the Fire Department). "James I think they'l get enough this time." Two firemen on the right hold amplifying horns. One says, "Lay it on the table eh! John we must pay 'em for that if we don't I'll be damned." The other, with a wagon wheel on the back of his coat, says, "Up with her up to the hub by J--s." A fireman leaning from a window shouts, "Play away no. 140 we want your assistance we can't get down."|H.R. Robinson's Lith; 52 Cortlandt, & no. 2 Wall St. N.Y.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 52.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1839-16.

A sheet music cover illustrated with an ornamental vignette and motifs alluding to the Know Nothing party. In the center a nocturnal procession of men in tricornered hats, holding bayonets and a banner with a skull and crossbones. From the crossbar of the banner hang a raccoon and a cock. The scene is framed by a grouping of American flags with a liberty cap and an eagle and shield (above) and by two trees. A raccoon crouches on the limb of a tree at left. Below are pumpkin vines and a rooster standing on a ledge near cornstalks. The raccoon, pumpkins, and cornstalks, all indigenous to North America and distinctly non-European, symbolize the xenophobic orientation of the nativist party. Winner & Shuster were prolific Philadelphia music publishers.|Philada. Published by Winner & Shuster, 110 North Eighth St. New York, Firth, Pond & Co. Boston, G. P. Reed & Co. Indianapolis, A. E. Jones & Co. Cincinnati, W. C. Peters & Son.|The Library's impression of the music sheet was deposited for copyright on August 16, 1854.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1854-2.

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Katsumi Yoshimura, bust portrait, facing left. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on negative sleeve. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.

Katsumi Yoshimura, bust portrait, facing left. Title transcribed Ansel Adams' caption on from negative sleeve. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.

Kay Kageyama, bust portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-50-B. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.

Poster showing a monumental eagle on a mountaintop as planes fly below. W.S.S. War Savings Stamps issued by the United States government. Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity.

Poster showing a close-up view of a soldier during a snowstorm, holding a mug from which steam is rising and eating a piece of pie, he has a big smile on his face. Also shown are emblems from the following organizations: War Camp Community Service; National Catholic War Council; YWCA; American Library Association; YMCA; Jewish Welfare Board - U.S. Army and Navy; and The Salvation Army.