Homefront
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,V for Victory,Home Economics,Textile Rationing and Conservation in WWII,The American Homemaker
State College, Pennsylvania: Penn State School of Agriculture, 1942. Featuring a "V for Victory" style illustration on the front, this pamphlet encourages American housewives to buy clothing carefully and conserve the clothing they do have, in order to support the troops abroad. At this time, cotton fabric was rationed, as.....
Price: $200.00
ABAA-RBMS-2023, Dating and Going Steady,Teens and Adolescence, Cooking and Baking,Victory Rations,Rationing in World War II
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Pillsbury Mills, Inc., 1945. "Say ... Kitchen Dates are Fun!" exclaims the young fellow on the cover of this guide to wholesome dates in the kitchen for teens. Published towards the end of World War II, it was produced to still urge American families on the homefront to.....
Price: $350.00
Photography, W.W.I, Home Front, Women's History, Social History, Women's Work
Allentown PA: Wint Studios, 8-Apr-18. Three different 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" photos on larger mounts. The first photo depicts six women seated around a table knitting with a wall size American flag in the background. Each of the women is knitting. The women are identified. The second is the.....
Price: $650.00
Y.W.C.A.,Women and the First World War
New York, New York: Y.W.C.A. War Work Council, 1918. A grouping of four (4) items relating to the War Work Council of the Y.W.C.A in 1918, which was formed to disseminate important news about the Y.W.C.A.'s work at home and abroad to support the war effort-- specifically, the work done.....
Price: $625.00
Postcards, Political Cartoons
United States: 1908. Pre-WWI patriotic postcard with an image of a young woman wearing the stars and stripes alongside the message "Here's to the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun". A charming reminder of the importance of women and the home front. Measures 3.5" by 5.5". Addressed and postmarked.....
Price: $65.00
health & welfare, first aid, Lysol, advertising, propaganda, women's work, nursing, housewife, military history, WWII, homefront, patriotism
Bloomfield, NJ: Lehn & Fink Products Corp. 1941. The Home Defense Course was broken up into three lessons: 1. How to Wage War on Germs, 2. Nursing and Sick Room Care, 3. First Aid. The whole booklet has a patriotic theme, evidence by not only the covers, which have be.....
Price: $175.00
Nursing, Educational Booklets, WWII, Home Front Health
United States: 1942-1949. A grouping of ephemera related to nurses in training during World War Two. Includes five items, and a total of ten discrete objects within those items. The items include: 1. Ephemera of Ellen Ely Lane, nurse in training at the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, 1944-1945.....
Price: $650.00
Homefront,WWII,Public Service,Serials
St. Paul, Minnesota: Public Service Magazine, 1943. A scarce wartime issue of Public Service Magazine, published in December of 1943, with articles on current public service issues including how to best support the war effort from home. Features patriotic imagery of the Statue of Liberty in front of an American.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,4-H Clubs,Victory Gardens,Teenagers and the War Effort,Homefront Activities
Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Agriculture, c.1944. "Your chance to serve": two (2) pamphlets published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for young people, promoting 4-H Clubs as way of supporting the war effort on the homefront. Both affiliated with University of Maryland. They include: "America Calls All 4-H Clubs".....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,Home Economics,Textile Rationing and Conservation in WWII,The American Homemaker
United States: c.1943. Two (2) items documenting textile rationing on the homefront during the Second World War, in which cottons and other fabrics were conserved to support the troops abroad. The first item is a printed wrapper used to wrap around a bed sheet for sale by Pepperdell Manufacturing Company.....
Price: $225.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,Communications Technology,Telephonists and Switchboard Operators in WWII,Signal Corps
United States: Bell Telephone Company, c.1943. A WWII-era promotional booklet from Bell, highlighting the importance of telephones and communications technology to the war effort. Features patriotic imagery throughout, with photographs of telephonists, a telephone line on the front lines,a group of Signal Corps trainees in class, and the Bell Laboratories.....
Price: $250.00
World War I, Homefront, Women's History
United War Work Campaign, 1918. An 11 3/4" x 8" paper window display depicting an eagle atop a banner. It reads " A girl from this home has enrolled in the VICTORY GIRLS to earn and give to make our fighters fit". United War Work Campaign surrounds the banner. Reverse.....
Price: $150.00
civil war, union soldier, president Lincoln, mourning dress, soldiers coming home
Waterloo, Iowa: May 2, 1865. Waterloo, Iowa. May 2, 1865. A heartfelt letter from a young woman reflecting the sentiment from the homefront at the end of the war; surviving emotionally on roamers and hearsay. It expresses the understanding of the need for the war but the ambivalence associated with.....
Price: $500.00
WWI, military, US Army, government, home front, soldiers
New York: McConnell Printing Company, [1918-1919]. 15pp. Illustrated wraps.Camp Merritt was an army base that was activated for use during WWI located in Dumont and Cresskill, NY. The booklet features information and images from photographs of the camp buildings, various administrative offices, money and post exchange, tailor shops, hospital, enlisted.....
Price: $125.00