The Rare Book & Texana Collections includes among its holdings a collection of over 600 original World War I and World War II posters. The World War I posters include a number of French examples, while the World War II group consists primarily of American home front posters. War bonds, rationing, enlistment, security, and morale are all topics treated by these artworks. The collection includes posters by such famous artists as Normal Rockwell, Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), and Boris Artzybasheff.

	Your metals fight on every front! Date: [1943] Creator: United States. Army. Description: A series of six brown-tinted photographs with captions depicting the uses of metals in the armed forces during World War II. Describes the use of metals for vehicles, airplanes, bombs, and guns. > more info
	Your ore packs a punch! Date: 1943 Creator: Kirby, Rollin, 1875-1952. Description: Two miners listen to the radio. One miner rests his helmet on top of the radio. He rejoices as the radio announces a successful attack by U.S. tanks against the Nazi forces. > more info
	Your own vegetables all the year round-- : if you dig for victory now. Date: Creator: Wilson, Norman. Description: Small color poster shows a wooden basket with a handle, filled with a variety of vegetables. > more info
	Your production : beat your promise. Date: Creator: Description: Illustration of a giant boot about to crush caricatures of Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and a caricatured Japanese soldier (probably representing Hideki Tojo). > more info
	Your victory garden counts more than ever! Date: 1945 Creator: Morley, Hubert. Description: In the background is a view of a garden with a man and woman cultivating and weeding; foreground is an arrangement of various vegetables, including peas in the shell, cabbage, and carrots. > more info
	Your war bonds are a stake in the future. Date: [1943] Creator: Saalburg, Allen Russell, 1899-1987. Description: Painting of an engraved stone plaque affixed to an outer red brick wall of a building. The plaque has an eagle/shield at the top and the text engraved below it. A U.S. flag wrapped around its pole leans toward the plaque in the foreground. > more info
	[Decline of the Rising Sun] Date: Creator: Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965. Description: Black and white cartoon. A figure made of Wickwire Spencer rope uses a part of itself to hang a caricature of a distressed Hideki Tojo, who appears to be partially immersed in the sea. Behind Tojo's head are rays resembling those of a Japanese Rising Sun symbol. A volcano or mountain can be seen in the distant background. > more info
	[Happy days!] Date: 1942 Creator: Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965. Description: Cartoon drawing. Hitler, Mussolini, and a Japanese character are depicted as apes behind a chain-link fence or cage. A pear tree is seen in the foreground, outside the fence. A dead tree is seen in the background, inside the fence. > more info
	[Marianne and soldier collect for the Red Cross] Date: 1916 Creator: Willette, Adolphe Léon, 1857-1926. Description: A female figure representing Marianne is accompanied by a wounded soldier. They collect for the Red Cross. Marianne is dressed in a style to suggest the French Revolution, wearing a blue, white, and red skirt, a uniform jacket worn as a cape, and a long blue and red cap. She holds a Red Cross collecting tin in one hand and a small blue, white, and red keg under her other arm. She guides a wounded soldier, his head bandaged. He has one arm on Marianne’s shoulder, and the other holds a cane. The soldier wears a medal pinned to his coat, a cap with an inscribed band, and is smoking. > more info
	[Red Cross] Date: 1918 Creator: Cappiello, Leonetto, 1875-1942. Description: Color poster of a Red Cross nurse coming to the assistance of a woman and directing her to a Red Cross building. The nurse wears a blue cape and a long blue headdress resembling a nun's habit and veil. The assisted woman is carrying a large cloth bundle and appears to be a refugee in distress. > more info