Poster showing a cavalry soldier on horseback, and other soldiers, facing a mountainous landscape. Caption continues: YMCA; YWCA; National Catholic War Council; K. of C.; Jewish Welfare Board; War Camp Community Service; American Library Association; Salvation Army.

Poster explains in detail the particulars of incentives for enlistment. Poster is text only. Poster no. 33. W. 10754. 1/15 ; W. 13636. 3/15. Title from item.

Poster is text only, with details of qualifications, terms, pay, allowances, pensions, and procedures. Poster no. 115. 15M. W.10754. 1/15. W8189. 3/15. Title from item.

Mori Nakashima, student of divinity, bust portrait, facing front. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-67. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.

The victorious James Buchanan sits under a trellis of grape vines, holding reports of election returns on his lap. He reflects, "What a happy morning for my country and myself. Here I find returns for myself & my Kentucky brother [running mate John C. Breckinridge]--beginning with Maine in the North & concluding with Texas in the South. What welcome news to know that the People have not removed a plank of the Democratic Platform. Who will dare breathe Disunion now?" Before him on the ground lie scythes, a shovel, and a pickax; a plough rests nearby. Behind him ripe wheat is visible. On the left, past a low fence, four New York newspaper editors run forward holding up bills for large sums of money. They are a bearded "German editor," Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett, and James Watson Webb--frustrated supporters of John C. Fremont, who rides off in the distance saying, "I'm off to Mariposa--Like a foolish fellow, you Editors made me believe papers could do all things--The people you see have used us up. When I get to my gold regions & "back again," I'll pay you "in a horn."" Mosquitoes swarm around him. At right Millard Fillmore emerges from the mouth of a cavern, holding a lantern (a nativist symbol). He confronts Know Nothing founder "Ned Buntline" (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), a bearded man with two pistols at his waist. Fillmore complains, "Oh! Ned! Ned! This is all of your doing. After being a popular Whig President--and walking in the footsteps of Clay, Webster & Cass. I am thrown back by the People into the dark & gloomy caverns of Know Nothingism."|Probably drawn by John L. Magee.|Published by I [i.e. John] Childs 84 Sth 3rd. St. Phila.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 118.|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-27.

Poster showing a soldier reading the Bible, with a ghostly image of a woman standing over him.

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse among small children, some with French flags, as a woman on her knees hands the nurse an infant.

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse among small children, some with French flags, as a woman on her knees hands the nurse an infant. Form N.Y. 20 Second War Fund.

U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps recruiting poster showing two men working in an auto repair shop, also shows truck from the Army Motor Transport Corps. Poster caption continues: Become an expert mechanic ; Learn the auto trade.

Poster showing a mechanic in overalls. Text continues: Sign up now for a course of instruction in the Motor Transport Corps Training School. Earn while you learn. Poster includes blank space for address of local recruiting office. Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army, Washington Barracks, D.C.

The artist employs Aesop's fable about the mountain which was said to be in labor, its dreadful groans attracting expectant crowds only to be disappointed when it issued forth a small mouse. Here the mountain is the "Volcano of Loco-Focoism" which spews "Repudiation" from its peak and sends out two mice, Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun, from its base. "Loco Foco," originally an appellation of a radical faction of New York Democrats, was by 1844 a pejorative label applied to the party in general. In "The Mountain in Labor" the artist seems to belittle Van Buren and Calhoun, the early front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination. Van Buren says, "Don't be afeard its only us!" and Calhoun expresses his anti-tariff stance with, "Free trade!" A crowd watches from the lower right, one of them declaring, "It's the old Kinderhook mouse and his nullifying crony!" Also witnessing the event is Henry Clay (left) who comments, "The mountains labor and bring forth ridiculous mice! Here's the trap that will catch them!" At his feet is a mouse trap "National Faith." In a nearby armchair sits President John Tyler, dressed in a uniform and holding a "Veto" sword. The uniform may be an allusion to his Jacksonian policies, or the mantle inherited from his popular predecessor, Gen. William Henry Harrison. Tyler, who acceded to the presidency on Harrison's death, earned his party's wrath by repeatedly vetoing Whig efforts to reestablish a national bank. Here he reflects his determination to retain the White House, saying, "Possession being nine points in the law I must head them [the mice] both off!" The cartoon was probably published in 1843 or early in 1844. It may have been issued around the time of the late-August 1843 New York City Democratic convention, at which both Van Buren and Calhoun showed considerable strength. It must in any event predate the May 1844 Democratic national convention. By that time the range of Democratic hopefuls had widened considerably and Calhoun, appointed Tyler's secretary of state in March, was no longer a likely nominee. Weitenkampf cites an impression of the print with an H. R. Robinson imprint.|Probably drawn by Edward Williams Clay.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 74.|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 1843-9.

Poster encouraging farmers to buy Liberty Bonds, with text below American flag. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Title from item. "It was a lie to say that any Nationalist who went into the Army betrayed Ireland; on the contrary, the men who joined the Army and took their stand beside the Irish Guards, the Dublin Fusiliers, and other gallant Irish Regiments, who had nobly maintained the traditions of our race, were doing a patriotic act. Any man who sought to intimidate anyone from recruiting was doing a wrong act, and acting falsely to Ireland." Poster is text only, with quote from Dillon. (3687.) Wt. - .2.3000.3/15.

Title from item. Includes quote from Devlin, wishing the Irish Brigade well. Poster is text only. 5,000, Wt./P.651, 3,15.

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

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States: the Abraham Lincoln Papers, containing approximately 20,000 items from the Manuscript Division; and the "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!" online collection, containing more than two hundred sheet music compositions that represent Lincoln and the Civil War in popular music, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Man and woman seated on wooden steps with nine children. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-49. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.