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Bushmen and Sawmill Hands Wanted. Join the 238th Canadian Forestry Battalion
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Poster showing a forester holding a pike and an axe, and a small night scene of logging on a river. Title from item.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Busing & Beyond: School Desegregation in Boston
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This collection uses primary sources to explore school desegregation in Boston. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Primary Source
Provider:
Digital Public Library of America
Provider Set:
Primary Source Sets
Author:
Kerry Dunne
Date Added:
04/11/2016
Butcher Shop, (J.S. Yonai), Manzanar Relocation Center
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J.S. Yonai, half-length portrait, standing, facing left, handling beef carcass in butcher shop. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-28. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - Photographs
Author:
Ansel Adams
Date Added:
01/01/1943
Butcher Shop, Manzanar Relocation Center
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Two men handling beef carcasses in butcher shop. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-27. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - Photographs
Author:
Ansel Adams
Date Added:
01/01/1943
Buxton: A Lost Utopia
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Source set where students discover the lost coal mining community of Buxton, Iowa, a multiracial town of 6,000 people. Blacks and Whites lived in racial harmony and prosperity during the height of the Jim Crow era.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Primary Source
Reading
Unit of Study
Author:
Iowa Dept. of Cultural Affairs
Date Added:
02/28/2022
Buy Liberty Bonds
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Poster showing a profile portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and a quote from the Gettysburg Address. "That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth" A. Lincoln. No. 12-A. Title from item.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Buy Liberty Bonds
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Poster showing silhouhette portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a quote from him. "That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." A. Lincoln.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Buy U.S. Government War Savings Stamps--25c[Ents] Starts You Let Your Quarters Help Win the War.
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Poster showing the Thrift Card and the War-Savings Certificate, and explaining each plan for incremental investment. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Buy United States Government War Savings Stamps Your Money Back with Interest From the United States Treasury
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Poster showing a variety of people lined up at a window tended by Uncle Sam, beneath a sign "W.S.S. for sale here"; a little girl waves the American flag in the foreground. No. S-11.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Buy United States Government War Savings Stamps Your Money Back with Interest From the United States Treasury
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Poster showing a variety of people lined up at a window tended by Uncle Sam, beneath a sign "W.S.S. for sale here"; a little girl waves the American flag in the foreground. No. S-11. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Buy a Bulldog On June 16th & Make Our Brave Boys More Comfortable. Bulldog Soldiers' & Sailors' Club
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Poster showing a bulldog, and faces of men wearing a variety of military hats. Title from item. "Some club."

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/19/2013
Buy a Liberty Bond of the U.S. Government and Wear This Button - it is a Badge of Honor
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Poster showing a button with the Statue of Liberty and the motto, "I own a Liberty Bond." No. 10(?).

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
Buy a United States Government Bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917
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Poster showing Uncle Sam gesturing towards troops, ships, and planes around the Statue of Liberty. "Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons", W.G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury. No. 1.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Library of Congress - World War I Posters
Date Added:
06/18/2013
By Popular Demand: Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
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This site offers photos of suffrage parades and pickets, cartoons commenting on the movement, and portraits of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
07/17/2000