Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith." – Historic Reproduction
![Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith.", Chicago : Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., [1919?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/13/1385582544f5-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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Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith." comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith."
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Few posters from the First World War pitch aviation as directly as this one, which urges young men to "Give 'er the gun" and join the United States Army Air Service. The chromolithograph was printed in Chicago by Edwards & Deutsch Lithographing Company, a firm known for colorful commercial and military prints of the period. Recruiting posters like this one were used to fill the ranks of a service that was expanding rapidly during the war, when aircraft were still novel and pilots were treated as glamorous heroes. The poster's appeal rests on the promise of earning a living while learning a skill that was then at the leading edge of technology.
| Created / published | Chicago : Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., [1919?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Air Service--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Air operations--American. Aircraft--1910-1920. Emblems--1910-1920. Military education--1910-1920. Men--Employment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,362 × 2,100 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221081 |
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