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Text continues: Thetford Centre, Thursday evening, December 5, 1861, for the benefit of the soldiers. Text describes the program in two parts with a 10-minute intermission.

Poster includes an insignia featuring an American eagle with a stars and…

Text continues: "Saturday, Dec. 21, 1918, for our New England boys. Poster contains a quotation from General Clarence Ransom Edwards: "The two necessities of war--ammunition, then tobacco." Poster shows the head of a smiling soldier saluting with a…

Text continues: "400,000 orphans starving, no state aid available--Campaign for $30,000,000." Poster shows a child wearing a scarf on her head.

The American Committee for Relief in the Near East (founded as the American Committee for Armenian and…

U.S. Army recruiting poster showing a man in civilian clothing and a soldier in uniform working as engineers.

Text continues: "More than 26,000 men are still in hospitals as the result of the war. Your membership helps the Red Cross make their lives happier." Poster features three photographs of men receiving aid, including letter writing and the projection…

Poster shows German Emperor Wilhelm II being hunted by a US locomotive. Poster includes quote from Director General of Railroads, William Gibbs McAdoo, to the railroad shopmen at Altoona, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1918: "Every bad locomotive is…

Poster shows the head of a Marine above the Japanese Islands with an inset showing bomb falling on the Japanese flag.

Poster showing Nazis burning books, with quotation by Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Books cannot be killed by fire ...."

Civil War recruiting posters are often highly local because they were produced by individuals who had been tasked to recruit in a specific territory. Many use standard language but add on some more personalized sentences or information to appeal to…

Text continues: "The Sharp Shooters of this vicinity who are willing to serve their country in Capt. Weston's Vermont Company, Col. Berdan's Regiment of Sharp Shooters, are requested to meet at the Inn of B.B. Cook, in this place [West Townshend], on…

Text continues: "The Motor Transport Corps will train you. Earn while you learn." Poster showing soldiers in a truck calling out to a young man.

This poster is unusual in its highly evocative and detailed appeal to Vermonters specifically. Burnell, the recruiting officer responsible for it, evoked the language and imagery of Vermont's earlier military heroes, the Green Mountain Boys, and…