Premiers au feu means in French first to fight, in English U.S. Marines / F. – Historic Reproduction
![Premiers au feu means in French first to fight, in English U.S. Marines / F., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/16/167c11cafe4c-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: Premiers au feu means in French first to fight, in English U.S. Marines / F., 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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Premiers au feu means in French first to fight, in English U.S. Marines / F.
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This lithograph leads with a French phrase, "Premiers au feu," meaning "first to fight," and the English "U.S. Marines" appears beneath it. The United States entered the First World War in April 1917, and the Marine Corps, a small force, was expanding quickly and relied on its reputation as a fast-deploying fighting service. The helmet in the poster's subject matter points to the trench warfare in France that American recruits were about to face, and it shows how recruiting art of the period framed enlistment as a route into a modern, dangerous war.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 106 x 71 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Marines (Military personnel)--1910-1920. Helmets--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,713 × 4,705 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223327 |
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