If you are an electrician, mechanic or a telegraph operator you belong in the U.S. Army Signal Corps If you are not we will train you, get in now / Welsh. – Vintage Print
![If you are an electrician, mechanic or a telegraph operator you belong in the U.S. Army Signal Corps If you are not we will train you, get in now / Welsh., Brooklyn, N.Y. : Latham Litho & Printing Co., [between 1917 and 1920] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/15214865c37b-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 If you are an electrician, mechanic or a telegraph operator you belong in the U.S. Army Signal Corps If you are not we will train you, get in now / Welsh.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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If you are an electrician, mechanic or a telegraph operator you belong in the U.S. Army Signal Corps If you are not we will train you, get in now / Welsh.
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Few recruiting posters from the First World War name specific trades as directly as this one. It asks electricians, mechanics and telegraph operators to join the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and it promises training to anyone who lacks those skills. The Signal Corps ran the wire telephone, telegraph and early radio networks that linked commanders to troops, so it needed technically trained men. Brooklyn's Latham Litho & Printing Co. produced the lithograph sometime between 1917 and 1920, during the wartime drive for volunteers after the United States entered the war in April 1917.
| Created / published | Brooklyn, N.Y. : Latham Litho & Printing Co., [between 1917 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Signal Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. Men--Employment--1910-1920. Military personnel--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,786 × 4,697 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221045 |
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