Facts for Canadians who enlist for overseas service. ... Kitchener wants more Canadians! Enlist now! – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Facts for Canadians who enlist for overseas service. ... Kitchener wants more Canadians! Enlist now!, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Facts for Canadians who enlist for overseas service. ... Kitchener wants more Canadians! Enlist now!
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The poster's headline promises "facts for Canadians who enlist for overseas service," and its line "Kitchener wants more Canadians!" invokes Lord Kitchener, the British secretary of state for war, whose image had become a recruiting symbol across the empire. Printed in Toronto in 1915 by the Central Recruiting Committee of No. 2 Military Division, this color lithograph dates from a time when Canada raised its forces entirely through voluntary enlistment. Canadian units were taking heavy losses that year, and posters like this one aimed to keep reinforcements flowing to the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 72 x 53 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. No. 12. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 5,587 × 6,935 px · prints to 19 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1355_Facts_for_Canadians_who_1915 |
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