Search Digital Records

Limit your search

Item Type Coverage Format Rights Subject

5 results

America's Playboy No. 1 [Propaganda flyer]
Propaganda flyer depicting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt holding American servicemen in front of artillery, circa 1942-1945. The flyer was presumably printed by Japanese forces to encourage Allied service members to surrender. Caption: "America's Playboy No. 1. Valiant Americans -- this hurts me more than it does you. I am forced to do this in order to maintain my prestige and honor. Also it…
President Roosevelt welcomes General Giraud to U.S.
Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General Henri Giraud at the White House, Washington, D.C., circa 1943.Typed caption glued to verso: "President Roosevelt welcomes General Giraud to U.S. Gen. Henri Honore Giraud (left), Commander-in-Chief of French Forces in North and West Africa and co-Chairman of the French Committee of National Liberation, is welcomed to the White House at…
In 1942 America will build 60,000 war planes…
Poster of aircraft in flight over a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, undated reproduction by Vintage Arte, based on an original design from the 1940s. Numbered 101 of 2500. Text: "In 1942 America will build 60,000 war planes. In 1943 America will build 125,000 war planes."
[Memorial certificate for Thomas Walter Jackson from the Office of the President of the United States]
Memorial certificate for Thomas Walter Jackson from the Office of the President of the United States, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, circa 1942.
["The News Parade" newsreel footage of Pearl Harbor attack, circa December 1941]
Newsreel footage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, produced as part of "The News Parade" series by Castle Films, circa December 1941. The segment, titled "Japs Bomb U.S.A.!," uses title cards and brief clips to describe events prior to, during, and after the bombing. Scenes featured in these clips include Emperor Hirohito with Japanese troops, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull…