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Everybody, Every Payday: Collecting WWII Payroll Savings Bond Posters

 The Payroll Savings Plan was the backbone of the WWII savings and bond sales effort. Employees could authorize a certain allotment from each paycheck to be saved towards the purchase of a war savi...

WWII Women in Service

The incredible size and scope of World War II necessitated the admission of women into military service. Starting in 1942, new programs like WAAC, WAVES, SPARS, WASP, and the Marine Corps Women's R...

Flying Across America: A History of American Airline Advertisements

Vintage airline posters present a fascinating glimpse into the Golden Age of Air Travel exhibiting eye catching illustrations and breathtaking destinations. Featured in our new arrivals is an impre...

2023 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Space Aficionado

From astronauts' signed memoirs, original NASA photographs and Apollo coffee table books, to moon passport wallets and galactic cufflinks, these gifts are truly out of this world. We selected gifts...

2023 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Explorer

These hand-picked holidays gifts are perfect for the explorer in your life! Inspire them with the tales of intrepid explorers who have come before them, a gorgeous photography collection of the Ame...

Remington's Nocturnal Paintings

More than half of Frederic Remington’s paintings in his later years were night scenes. From 1900 to his premature death in 1909, Remington completed more than seventy paintings exploring the colors...

WWI Posters and the Division of Pictorial Publicity

The Division of Pictorial Publicity successfully recruited many of America’s most famous fine and commercial artists to the war effort, including James Mongtomery Flagg, Howard Chandler Christy, Jo...

2022 Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Space Aficionado

From astronauts' signed memoirs, original NASA photographs and Apollo coffee table books, augmented reality paired moon models, and galactic cufflinks, these gifts are truly out of this world. We s...

The Promotion of National Parks with Railroad Posters

From the turn of the century until America entered World War II in 1941, railroads mounted advertising campaigns designed to lure Americans west to experience the region's scenic wonders firsthand....

Report Upon the Colorado River

Prior to the Civil War, much of the American West was still unexplored and undocumented by the United States. In order to determine whether the Colorado River had potential to become a major shippi...