No days are bookless days! Poughkeepsie asks you to do your part and part with your books for our boys / F. R. Booth 1918. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: No days are bookless days! Poughkeepsie asks you to do your part and part with your books for our boys / F. R. Booth 1918., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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No days are bookless days! Poughkeepsie asks you to do your part and part with your books for our boys / F. R. Booth 1918.
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Addressed to the residents of Poughkeepsie, New York, this lithograph asks them to give up their books for "our boys," and its slogan, "No days are bookless days," turns that request into a daily habit. During the First World War, the American Library Association and related groups gathered reading material for servicemen in training camps and overseas, so the poster reflects a national effort carried out in local communities. F. R. Booth made the design in 1918, the final year of the war, when such drives were common. Posters like this one show how civilian volunteers at home took part in the war effort.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 71 x 52 cm. |
| Genre | Saluting 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Book drives--1910-1920. War work--1910-1920. Libraries--1910-1920. Books--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,135 × 1,500 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221316 |
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