Germany wants to see you

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Name of artist found on www.internationalposter.com/poster-details.aspx?id=GEL18011.,Poster showing a painting of a street scene with a tall red-orange building with a dome in sunlight and a shorter building on either side in the shadows a horse-drawn wagon is driving through an arched entrance of the tall building and a man is walking along the left shorter building and two women are conversing at the right shorter building a green sky with pink clouds in the background.

Library service roll

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The text lists the names of fourteen servicemen serving during World War I who had worked at the Library at one time. Additional information, including unit, city and states are given for eleven of the servicemen. The thirteenth and fourteenth names are on a separate sheet that is attached to the original sheet.,A service flag has been placed in the University Library containing ten stars for men who have worked there since H. O. Severance has been librarian, and who are now in service. They are: Captains Chester Longwell, Herschel Colbert, and Carson E. Cowherd Lieutenants Claude B. Cross, now in France, Guy V. Head, James R. Bryant of Camp Zachary Taylor, and George T. Riley of Camp Funston George Phillips of Fort Sill, George B. McCowan, of Camp Funston and J. H. Longwell, of the Third Reserve Officer's Training Camp at Camp Pike. -- page 126, The Missouri Alumnus, January 1918. Additional names on broadside are: J. Fay Minnis, J. Arthur Love, Delos C. Johns, and Hugh Trowbridge.,MU: Poster mounted on canvas and encapsulated.

Warning!

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A tin can labeled Lie is tied to the tail of a dog that is labeled Rumor.,Additional text includes list of rumors on the left, with corresponding facts on the right.,At bottom of sheet, Don't let the Germans fool you with their lies. Do your part. Report the names of persons circulating such rumors to National Committee of Patriotic Societies, Southern Bldg., Washington, D.C.,MU: Broadside has center crease from top to bottom with several small holes, and is encapsulated.

Ordonnance portant taxation de la vente au détail du sucre dans la Départment de la Seine

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At head of title: République Française, Liberté Egalité Fraternité, Préfecture de Police, 2e Division, 3e Bureau.,3520-16.,Paris, le 3 Octobre 1916.,Translation of title: Order for taxation of retail sale of sugar in the Department of the Seine.,MU: Poster mounted on canvas and encapsulated. Stamped on back: University of Missouri Library, Oct. 30, 1947.,Regulations regarding the retail sale of sugar, including maximum prices.

Germany wants to see you

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Offsetprinting and reproduction by Otto Elsner K.-G., Berlin S 42.,Poster showing a painting of The Gendarmenmarkt, a square in the historic center of Berlin widely regarded as the most beautiful square in Berlin. At its center is the Concert Hall, flanked on the south side by the German Cathedral, and on the north side by the French Cathedral.

Free war exhibit

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Poster showing soldiers shooting at unseen enemy.,Rest of text reads: A special train filled with interesting things that every loyal American will want to see! Hundreds of war relics, right from the battle fields! Guns, shells, bombs, shrapnel, helmets, gas masks, trench tools ... Speeches by men who have been over there. Martial music and patriotic songs! Don't miss it! Bring the children! Bring everybody! Train will arrive in Columbia, Mo. on April 28th at 4:00 p.m. and depart at 6:00 p.m.