Help your country stop this--Enlist in the Navy / Auto-lithograph by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. – Antique Print
![Help your country stop this--Enlist in the Navy / Auto-lithograph by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., N[ew] Y[ork] : American Lithographic Co., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0b/0b43fd9773b8-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Help your country stop this--Enlist in the Navy / Auto-lithograph by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Help your country stop this--Enlist in the Navy / Auto-lithograph by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A.
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A lifeboat crowded with sailors and survivors anchors this recruiting poster, with the command "Help your country stop this" printed beside it. The Welsh-born painter Frank Brangwyn, an Associate of the Royal Academy, designed it as a lithograph for the American Lithographic Company in New York in 1917. That year Germany's campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare was sinking Allied and neutral merchant ships in the Atlantic, and the United States entered the First World War in April. The poster's appeal ties enlistment to protecting shipping from those attacks, and its large scale was meant to catch the eye on city walls and in public spaces.
| Created / published | N[ew] Y[ork] : American Lithographic Co., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 156 x 200 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Sailors--1910-1920. Lifeboats--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,025 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224029 |
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