U.S. Army recruiting poster showing a group of men carrying the tools of the engineering trades, also shown is a list of educational opportunities available to new recruits.
Poster showing a sailor in 19th century uniform, with modern battleships at sea and a distant shore in flames. Design copyright Seargeant Bros. Ltd. Poster no. 101. Title from item.
Poster is text only, with small armorial device of King George V. Poster no. 1. W 7810-14. Title from item.
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Poster showing a tall masted ship. Text continues: ... to serve during the period of the war. Age 18 to 38 - Mean chest measurement 34 inches, height 5 ft. 3 1/2 inches. There are no expenses incurred in joining, free kits and food being provided. Men are paid at the service rate of 1/3 per day - Separation allowances are made to the families of married men. Apply to: The Royal Naval Division. Recruiting office: 112 The Strand, London, W.C. Title from item.
England didn't start its first successful colony in North America until 1607, more than 100 years after Columbus arrived in the New World. In this video, Kim discusses the problems that prevented England from following in Spain's footsteps, including struggles for the throne, war in Ireland, and economic depression.
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Poster showing an idyllic English village scene, with poem by Samuel Rogers, "A wish, mine be a cot beside the hill..." Caption: The Underground Railways of London, knowing how many of their passengers are now engaged on important business in France and other parts of the world, send out this reminder of home. Thanks are due to George Clausen, R.A. for the drawing. Title devised by Library staff.
Poster showing a woman, a passenger from the Lusitania, submerged in water cradling an infant in her arms. Title from item. Issued by The Boston Public Safety Committee. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1998.
Poster showing a chicken wearing a red leg band and a sash decorated with a crown. Title from item.
Poster showing Uncle Sam, in the uniform of a soldier, protecting a woman who has collapsed beneath a cross inscribed "Slavery" and "Barbarism." Uncle Sam also points a revolver at the Kaiser, who wears a crown and royal robes and brandishes a whip. Statue of Liberty visible in background. Caption: "Americans! Stand by Uncle Sam for liberty against tyranny!" Theodore Roosevelt. Copyright by the Century Co. Dutch artist Raemaekers produced a number of "patriotic cartoons" for Century Magazine. Title from item.
U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing civilian men in queue receiving their navy gear and boarding a battleship. Painted and presented to the U.S. Navy by George Wright.
Poster showing a sailor blowing a bugle. U.S. Navy Recruiting Station.
Poster showing scenes of Army construction activities. R.S., A.G.O., No. 225, 3-22-20.
Poster showing a man in uniform with electrical equipment. Jobs and specialties are listed: Electricity, telephony, photography, line work, cable splicing, tel. construction, wireless, telegraphy, carrier pigeons, submarine cables, motorcyclists, chauffeurs, etc. Government Printing Office. No. 3-6914.
Text continues: Conditions till further orders: Height - 5 ft. 3 ins. and upwards. Chest - 34 1/2 ins at least. Age - 19 to 38 years. Poster is text only. 5th November, 1914. W 7532-3692 50,000 11/14 HWV. Title from item.
Poster showing a smiling soldier. Poster no. 96. Title from item.
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Poster is mostly text, with a small American flag. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Poster showing a soldier holding a rifle, peering through a question mark. Title from item. Caption: When are the other boys coming? P. 3177/7500.
Poster for Red Cross student membership drive, including blank spaces for the name of the school and the number of members enrolled, American and Red Cross flags, and portraits of Woodrow Wilson, Lincoln, and Washington. Caption reads: Instructions for Use. To the Principal or Teacher: Have the school children draw in the name of the school at the top of the poster after careful lettering under your direction. Exhibit the poster at the Lincoln's Birthday Exercise, and hang it in a prominent place during the enrollment period which ends on Washington's Birthday. At Washington's Birthday Exercise let some of the children, as part of the ceremony, paste in figures representing the number of children enrolled above the word Members.
"I never knew a whole family to live together, till all were grown up, in my life," recalls Lewis Clarke of his twenty-five years enslaved in Kentucky.1 Families were separated due to sale, escape, early death from poor health, suicide, and murder by a slaveholder, overseer, slave patroller, or other dominant person. Separation also occurred within the plantation itself, e.g., by segregating "field slaves" from "house servants," removing children from parents to live together with a slave caretaker, or bringing children fathered by the slaveholder to live in the "Big House." How, then, did the slave family provide solace and identity? "What the family does, and what the family did for African Americans," writes historian Deborah White Gray, "was create a world outside of the world of work. It allowed for significant others. It allowed a male slave to be more than just a brute beast. It allowed him to be a father, to be a son. It allowed women to be mothers and to take on roles that were outside of that of a slave, of a servant."2 When did the enslaved child realize how his or her family life differed from the slave-holder's? How did enslaved adults cope with the forced disintegration of their families? Here we read a collection of texts—two letters, a memoir, and interview excerpts—to consider these questions. (See also Theme II: ENSLAVEMENT, #2, Sale.)
Nikki Giovanni's poem 'The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.' is paired with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.