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WPA Posters: No Creature in This World So Ignorantly Nurtured As The Average Baby Advice at Your Health Bureau.
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Poster promoting proper health care for children, showing a girl with a fawn. Date stamped on verso: Dec 23 1938.

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WPA Posters: No Enemy Sub Will Dare Lift Its Eye If You Lend Your Zeiss Or Bausch & Lomb Binoculars to The Navy Pack Carefully, Include Your Name And Address : Send to Naval Observatory Washington D.C.
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Poster showing a periscope emerging from the sea, with a ship in flames and sinking in the distance.

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WPA Posters: No Water - No Guns Don't Waste It!!
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Poster promoting conservation of water for the war effort. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense and the City of Philadelphia Water Bureau. Hand-written on recto in pencil: Artist: William Tasker.

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WPA Posters: Now! Federal Theatres Present "Midsummer Varieties" a Tuneful, Sparkling Vaudeville Revue.
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Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Midsummer Varieties" at the Greek Open Air Theatre, Vermont Avenue at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, Calif.

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WPA Posters: Nurse The Baby Your Protection Against Trouble : Inform Yourself Through The Health Bureau Publications And Consult Your Doctor
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Poster promoting breast feeding and proper child care, showing mother nursing baby. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938.

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WPA Posters: Obey Cancer's Danger Signals Do Not Wait For Pain : Go to a Physician If You Have [...]
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Poster encouraging early check-ups and treatment for cancer, showing outline of human figure with heart and circulatory system. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Caption continues with a list of six specific warning signs that should prompt a medical check-up. U.S. Public Health Service in cooperation with the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Household Arts
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Poster promoting occupations related to household arts, such as millinery, dress maker, factory worker, saleslady, child care, housewife, and hotel maid, showing women in the uniforms of the various occupations. Date stamped on verso: Mar 10 1938.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Household Arts
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Poster promoting occupations related to household arts, such as cook, nursemaid, teacher, dietician, lunch room worker, waitress, and nurse, showing women in the uniforms of the various occupations. Date stamped on verso: Mar 10 1938.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Industrial Arts
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Poster promoting occupations in the industrial arts, such as radio repairman, compositor, blue print worker, draftsman, teacher of industrial arts, pressman, cabinet maker, and electrician, showing cog wheel and factory. Date stamped on verso: Nov 24 1937.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Industrial Arts
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Poster promoting occupations in the industrial arts, such as carpenter, machine shop worker, molder, painter, paint sprayer, and sheet metal worker, showing men engaged in the various jobs. Date stamped on verso: Jun 23 1937.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Industrial Arts
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Poster promoting occupations in the industrial arts, such as carpenter, machine shop worker, molder, painter, paint sprayer, and sheet metal worker, showing men engaged in the various jobs. Date stamped on verso: Nov 27 1936.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Language
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Poster promoting occupations in the field of languages, such as interpreter, foreign buyer, correspondent, custom officer, foreign service, wireless operator, and international lawyer, showing book. Date stamped on verso: Nov 18 1937.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Mathematics
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Poster promoting occupations that require a background in mathematics, such as bank worker, draftsman, civil engineer surveyor, and chemist laboratory assistant.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Mathematics
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Poster promoting occupations that require a background in mathematics, such as mathematics teacher, actuary statistician, mechanical engineer, accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, and calculating machine operator.

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WPA Posters: Occupations Related to Mathematics
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Poster promoting occupations that require a background in mathematics, such as mathematics teacher, calculating machine operator, mechanical engineer, accounting auditor bookkeeper, actuary statistician.

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WPA Posters: Oceanside High School Masque Society Will Present 4 One Act Plays "Riders to The Sea," "When The Horns Blow," "A New School For Wives," And "A Minuet"
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Poster for Oceanside High School presentation of four one act plays at the Jr. High School auditorium, showing the masks of tragedy and comedy. Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1939.

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WPA Posters: October's "bright Blue Weather" a Good Time to Read!.
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Poster for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading a book, surrounded by a bat, ghost, witch, and other images of Halloween. Date stamped on verso: Aug 30 1940. Attributed to Albert M. Bender. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 161

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WPA Posters: Ohio WPA Paintings Through March
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Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of WPA artists from Ohio, at 4300 Euclid, showing column and birds. Date stamped on verso: Mar 3 1938. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 50

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