These New Yorkers volunteered last week--Is your name on this list? – Antique Wall Art
![These New Yorkers volunteered last week--Is your name on this list?, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/14/140ff1ce1ba1-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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A window into the past: These New Yorkers volunteered last week--Is your name on this list?, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Its headline asks the reader directly, "Is your name on this list?", and the poster pairs that question with a row of photographs captioned for different branches of service: a North Sea scene, a periscope view, a "clean hit," and a line of men ready to fill the ranks. Issued in 1917, after the United States entered the First World War that April, it came from the Mayor's Committee on National Defense's recruiting arm in New York. Its appeal was aimed at the city's men, and it shows how wartime recruiting used photography, which still felt fresh and factual, to make the conflict seem immediate.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) ; 53 x 83 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Photographs are captioned: Spring time in the North Sea; Somewhere in France; These men volunteered; Looking through the periscope; A clean hit; Men, men, and more men. The Mayor's Committee on National Defense, The Recruiting Committee, 50 East 42nd Street, New York. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,433 × 3,595 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1822_These_New_Yorkers_volun_1917 |
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