Related Resources

Related Visual Materials in the Prints & Photographs Division

In addition to the Division's strong holdings of World War I posters, the war is substantially represented in other media, including:

• news photographs, including the George Grantham Bain Collection, National Photo Company Collection, and the Harris & Ewing Collection
• panoramic photographs
• stereograph cards
• graphic items, including cartoon drawings, master drawings, fine prints, and Cabinet of American Illustration drawings.

Many catalog record descriptions include a standard reference to World War I; others make indirect reference in original captions. Descriptions often include a date or range of dates, but date searches are not precise, as the date may reflect when the item was created, the time period for the subject, or birth and death dates of people mentioned in the record.

The following search terms yield a rich cross-section of the division's holdings:

• World War, 1914-1918 (this is the standard heading for the war; a list of subdivisions that are used with names of wars is available at: aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/tgm1/app-c.html). Also types of warfare employed, e.g. Trench warfare
• Place names associated with key events, e.g., Argonne, Brest, Flander's Field. (Combining a place name with a date for the decade or years in which the war occurred can narrow results, although somewhat imprecisely: e.g., Belgium 1910)
• Terms for participants, e.g., American Expeditionary Forces, soldiers, nurses, Red Cross, refugees. (Combining a term with a date for the decade or years in which the war occurred can narrow results, although somewhat imprecisely: e.g., United States. Army 1910)
• Terms for weapons and transportation used in the war combined with the decade or years in which the war occurred, e.g., biplanes, kites (military) . (Combining a term with a date for the decade or years in which the war occurred can narrow results, although somewhat imprecisely: e.g.,artillery 1910)

World War I Posters Outside the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress does not maintain these sites. Users should direct concerns about these links to their respective site administrators or webmasters.

• Archives of Ontario
  More than 200 World War I posters from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Online exhibition includes a selection of the Canadian posters from World War I: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/posters/index.aspx External
• Ball State University
  Bracken Library - Archives and Special Collections
  The Elisabeth Ball Collection of World War I posters includes over 2,000 lithographs from both sides of the war. Digital presentation:
  http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/collection.php?CISOROOT=/WWIPosters External
• Colorado College
  Tutt Library
  An online exhibition of more than 300 World War I era posters organized by place, organization, or U.S. Government Department from the Tutt Library Special Collections: http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/library/specialcollections/historicalcollections/wwi/wwiguide.html External
• Georgetown University Libraries
  Lauinger Library
  Special Collections
  World War I posters in the collection of Roger N. Mohovich, acquired in 1997 as a gift from his heirs. Online exhibits from the collection include:
  • Take Up the Sword of Justice: British Posters of World War One from the Roger N. Mohovich Collection
    http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/britpost/britpost.htm External
  • First Call: American Posters of World War
    http://www.library.georgetown.edu/special-collections/art External
• Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  Thousands of World War I posters, primarily from the U.S., but also from other countries. Political poster database: http://hoohila.stanford.edu/poster/index.php External
• National Archives and Records Administration
  Still Picture Unit
  Posters from several record groups document U.S. government campaigns during World War I, as well as some non-U.S. posters. Strong representation is found in: RG 53-WP (Treasury Department), RG 45-WP (Office of Naval Records and Library), and RG 4-P (U.S. Food Administration). For overviews of relevant record groups, see: Guide to the Holdings of the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, compiled by Barbara Lewis Burger, 1990: https://www.archives.gov/research/guides/still-pictures-guide.html. Samples have been digitized and are available through the Archival Research Catalog (ARC): https://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ .
• National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
  Archives Center
  Includes Princeton University Poster Collection, consisting of more than ten thousand posters, with a particular emphasis on World War I and World War II posters. View summary: http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=%7E%21siarchives&uri=full=3100001%7E%21174512%7E%210#focus External
• University of Minnesota Libraries and the Minneapolis Public Library
  Digital presentation of a collection of posters and postcards from both world wars includes more than one thousand multi-national World War I posters: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/dasearch?term=war+posters&sc=keyword External
• University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  University Archives and Special Collections
  Online exhibit of American and French posters, with particular attention to food issues and YMCA posters: http://unllib.unl.edu/exhibits/wwIposters/ External.
• University of North Texas
  Rare Book and Texana Collections
  More than fifty World War I posters, including French and American posters. Digital collections search:
  http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/wwpc/browse/ External

Selected Bibliography

• Aulich, James. War posters : weapons of mass communication / James Aulich. Edited by Imperial War Museum. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007; 2007. ÊLC Call number: D522.25 .A94 2007.
• Choko, Marc H. Canadian War Posters : 1914-1918, 1939-1945. Edited by Canada Communication Group. Laval, QuŽbec: MŽridien, 1994. LC call number: D522.25 .C56 1994.
• Coffey,John W. American posters of World War One: Catalogue and Exhibition. Edited by Williams College. Museum of Art. Williamstown, Mass: Williams College Museum of Art, 1978. LC call number: D522.25 .C63.
• Darracott, Joseph. The First World War in Posters, from the Imperial War Museum, London. New York: Dover Publications, 1974. LC call number: D522.25 .D36.
• Darracott, Joseph, and Belinda Loftus. First World War Posters. London: Imperial War Museum, 1972. LC call number: D522.25 .D37.
• Denscher, Bernhard. Gold gab ich fŸr Eisen: Osterreichische Kriegsplakate 1914-1918. Vienna: Jugend & Volk, 1987. LC call number: D522.25 .D46 1987.
• George C. Marshall Research Foundation, and Crawford, Anthony R. Posters of World War I and World War II in the George C. Marshall Research Foundation. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. LC call number: D522.25 .G46 1979.
• Great Britain. His Majesty's Stationery Office. Catalogue of War Literature Issued by H. M. government, 1914-1919. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1921. LC call number: Z6207.E8 G8.
• Hardie, Martin and Arthur K. Sabin. War posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919.Ê ÊLondon,: A. & C. Black, 1920. LC call number: NC1810 .h2.
• Harel, VŽronique. Les affiches de la Grande Guerre. Edited by Historial de la Grande Guerre de PŽronne.Ê Amiens: Martelle, 1998. LC call number: D522.25 .A35 1998.
• Haythornthwaite, Philip J. The World War One Source Book. London: Arms and Armour, 1992. LC call number: D521 .h26 1992.
• Jobst-Rieder, Marianne. Das letzte Vivat : Plakate und Parolen aus der Kriegssammlung der K. K. Hofbibliothek / Marianne Jobst-Rieder, Alfred Pfabigan, Manfred Wagner ; Herausgeber, …sterreichische Nationalbibliothek. Edited by Hofbibliothek, …sterreichische Nationalbibliothek. Wien: Adolf Holzhausens Nachfolger, 1995; 1995. LC Call number: D522.25 .J63 1995.
• Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division, Millie, Elena, and Blythin, Kelly. French posters from World War I [computer file] : a checklist / Elena G. Millie, curator of the poster collection ; Kelly Blythin, assistant to the curator. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress: 1996. ÊLC Call Number: ÊD522.25 [1996 00538] [P&P]
• New Jersey Historical Society. The New Jersey Historical Society Collection of World War 1 Posters: Exhibition, Sale & Auction at the Museum of the New Jersey Historical Society. Edited by New Jersey Historical Society. Museum, Gallery 9. Newark, N.J.: The New Jersey Historical Society, 1976. LC Call number: D522.25 .N48 1976.
• Paret, Peter, Beth Irwin Lewis, and Paul Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives.. Edited by Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. LC Call number: D522.25 .P37 1992.
• Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926. Joseph Pennell's Liberty-Loan Poster; A Text-book for Artists and Amateurs, Governments and Printers .. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918. LC Call number: NC1810 .P4.
• Quand les affiches s'en vont en guerre-- : 1917-1918. Edited by MusŽe royal de l'ArmŽe et d'histoire militaire. Bruxelles: E.A. Jacobs, 1986. LC call number: D522 .Q36 1986.
• Rickards, Maurice,1919- comp. Posters of the First World War. New York: Walker, 1968. LC Call number: D527.5 .R5 1968.
• Rickards, Maurice, 1919-. Posters of the First World War; selected and reviewed by Maurice Rickards. London: Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1968.LC Call number: D527.5 .R5 1968b.
• Roult, Neil J. A Catalog of the Russian War Loan Posters of 1916 and 1917. [n.p.]: N.J. Roult, 1993. LC Call number: D522.25 .R68 1993.
• Stanley, Peter, 1956-. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: A Visual History of Propaganda Posters. Edited by Australian War Memorial. Melbourne. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. LC Call number: D522.25 .S73 1983.
• United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation Publications Section. Posters. 1918. LC Call number: NC1810 .U6.
• University of Nebraska--Lincoln, and Rudolph, G. A. War Posters from 1914 through 1918 in the Archives of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lincoln: University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1990. LC Call number: D522.25 .U53 1990.