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World War Poster Collection
Direct access at: http://digital.library.unt.edu/browse/department/rarebooks/wwpc/
Poster: Reward for Careless Talk. WWII.
The Rare Book & Texana Collections includes among its holdings a collection of over 600 original World War I and World War II posters. The World War I posters include a number of French examples, while the World War II group consists primarily of American home front posters. War bonds, rationing, enlistment, security, and morale are all topics treated by these artworks. The collection includes posters by such famous artists as Normal Rockwell, Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), and Boris Artzybasheff.
The majority of these posters have been digitized, and are now available online via the UNT Libraries' Digital Library.
In addition to war posters, the Rare Book & Texana Collections also include a number of other materials on World War I and World War II. Letters, photographs, unit histories, periodicals, documents, and artifacts are all part of the collections.
We are actively seeking donations of World War I and World War II materials to help not only preserve the material history of the eras, but also to aid in our mission of supporting research and teaching.