To support the catalogue and 2008 exhibition Winds and Words of War: World War I Posters and Prints at its Chicago venue at
the Harold Washington Library Center. Organized by the San Antonio Public Library, the exhibition comprises forty World
War I-era posters by American artists from the library’s collection that were primarily made by artists of the Division of Pictorial Publicity of the Committee on Public Information, a group formed at the request of President Woodrow Wilson to promote the war effort.