Poster showing a mule "Industry" kicking and snorting as it is bothered by flies "Unwise laws," and "Tax," and its food is infested with bugs, rat "Waste," and snake "Agitation." Title continues: If our good mule "Industry" were made National Food Dictator he would urge your appetite to do without unwise business laws, wasteful agitation, excessive taxation and labor strife, in the interest of America's industrial health. He would also urge the unrestricted use of harmony, co-operation and fair public opinion towards business men, for he knows that he himself needs these foodstuffs, if he is to do his full bit in the trenches and keep his strength for the trade war which will follow the restoration of peace. Give "Industry" a show as a food dictator. Caption: A poor meal for a good mule. Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York City. Copies supplied on request. No. E-5.

A broad satire, ridiculing all of the candidates in the 1848 presidential campaign. Swimming up "Salt River" and pulling the "Salt River Barge" is fox Martin van Buren. Seated in the barge are (left to right): Zachary Taylor, Taylor running mate Millard Fillmore, Henry Clay, Democratic vice presidential candidate William O. Butler, and presidential candidate Lewis Cass. Seated in the front of the boat and looking ahead through a spyglass, Taylor observes, "I say, Fillmore, I don't see anything ahead yonder that looks like the White House. The coast is very low & well adapted to Salt Works." Cass, at the tiller, says, "This boat carries Cesar and his fortunes. It cannot fail to arrive at its place of destination."|Entered . . . 1848 by J. Baillie. |Published by James Baillie, 87th St. near 3rd Avenue, N.Y.|Signed with monogram: H.B. (H. Bucholzer).|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 97.|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 1848-28.

The collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse factories in 1904. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the Westinghouse Machine Company. The films were intended to showcase the company's operations. Exterior and interior shots of the factories are shown along with scenes of male and female workers performing their duties at the plants.

A caricature of Martin Van Buren as an opossum. The marsupial, with a smirking Van Buren's head, rises on its hindquarters and displays in its pouch three of its "young." They are administration insiders (left to right): Thomas Hart Benton, John C. Calhoun, and Washington "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair. |Drawn by Edward Williams Clay?|Printed & pubd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt St. N.Y.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 63.|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 1840-52.

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding a wounded soldier. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the contributions of the Wright brothers to flight. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

Poster showing Uncle Sam selling Liberty bonds to a long line of diverse citizens, including a woman holding a book, "Study of English."

Highlights from the past and present of Iowa, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress.

Title from item. Poster is text only. Text: The Germans have set themselves to crush Poland out of existence. They have uprooted some 25,000 Polish farmers, and replaced them by Germans. ... Now, during all this period, the British Government has been labouring to reinstate and root the Irish People in their own soil. ... Is Germany going to treat Ireland differently from Poland? ... I appeal to every young man of military age to join the colours. The Rev. William P. Burke, C.C., at Cahir, 14th November, 1915.

Poster showing an outline map of Ireland, with detail maps showing locations of noted battles. Title from item. Caption: The battles in which Irish regiments have received prominent notice are shewn above.

Poster showing soldiers shaking hands, as one points to the motto, "Small nations must be free." Background features maple leaf and shamrocks. Title from item. Recruiting 91 Stanley St., Montreal, Lt. Col. H. J. Trihey, O.C.

Poster showing a portrait of war hero Michael O'Leary. H.M.S.O. W.P. 661 L.B no. 58 5,000 - 3-15. Title from item.

Poster showing the Lusitania in flames and sinking, with people in the water and lifeboats in the foreground. Title from item. Wt. P. 110 - 7,500. 5/'15.

Poster showing a mule "American industry" braying, having just kicked "Kaiserism," "Pacifist," and "Hard times." Title continues: Industry - the mule as patriot. American industry is loyal - it is out for the flag. It subscribed to the Liberty Loan with four feet. You can bleed it almost to death for the Red Cross. Don't make any mistake, industry is doing its bit. Give industry a show as a patriot. Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York City. Copies supplied on request. No. E-1.

Title from item. Poster is text only, including the two questions: 1. Have you a real reason for not joining the Army, or is that which you put before yourself as a reason, after all only an excuse? 2. Are you only going to do your duty when the law says you must?

Poster showing a map of Great Britain, with districts of army regiments indicated. Title from item. Poster no. 126. WT 7897/559.

Poster showing a family at home, surprized by German soldiers bearing bayonets. Title from item. P 661.

An indignant James K. Polk takes issue with Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster's public attacks on his Texas policy. In 1844 Webster had been opposed to the annexation of Texas and in 1846 he criticized attacked the war with Mexico over Texas as highly unjustifiable. Webster's first public speech on the war was made in late June, and the print probably did not appear before that. In the center, Polk (left) confronts Webster, warning, "If you say the Mexican War is a War of my own makeing you tell a falshood!" Raising his fists, Webster retorts, "I did say it & say it again!" To the left of Polk stand Thomas Ritchie and James Watson Webb, newspaper editors supporting the administration. Webb holds a bottle of "Tom and Jerry" and a sponge, commenting, "Principles, not men!" The Whig editor had opposed the annexation of Texas, but once hostilities commenced he urged military action to bring about a speedy termination. Webb's insistence on "principles" reflects his uneasiness in an alliance with a Democratic administration which stood to gain politically from the conflict. Ritchie reassures Polk, "In Union [a double entendre referring to his newspaper the "Washington Union&1] there is strength, Nous Verrons!" To the right of Webster stand an unidentified man (probably another journalist) and Horace Greeley, editor of the New York "Tribune. "Greeley, who was severely critical of Polk's policies, holds a bottle of "Lemon Soda" and (like Webb) a sponge, and remarks, "I wish Dan had eaten more Graham bread he's too fat for Polk!" (Graham bread was a well-known Greeley dietary preference.) The unidentified man remarks, "A Daniel come to blows, if not Judgment." The sponges and bottles are apparently intended for the relief of the fighters, much as the port and the "Old Monongohala Whiskey" figured in Anthony Imbert's "Set to between Old Hickory and Bully Nick"(no. 1834-4), on which "The Issue Joined"seems to be based. The precise significance of the "Tom & Jerry" and "Lemon Soda" is unclear. "The Issue Joined"is executed in a style similar to that of Edward Williams Clay. The faces of the characters may in fact be attributable to Clay, but the drawing of the figures and costumes are not up to that artist's standard.|H.R. Robinson's Lith. 142 Nassau St. N.Y.|T.B. Peterson Agent 98 Chesnut St. Phila.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 87.|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 1846-10.