U.S. Navy--Help your country--Enlist in the Navy / From a sketch by H.A. Ogden. – Vintage Print
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: U.S. Navy--Help your country--Enlist in the Navy / From a sketch by H.A. Ogden., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
U.S. Navy--Help your country--Enlist in the Navy / From a sketch by H.A. Ogden.
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
A 1917 Navy recruiting appeal reading "Help your country" reflects how the service sought volunteers after the United States entered the First World War that April. Posters like this were widely printed and displayed in post offices, storefronts and train stations, urging young men to enlist in the patriotic spirit of the moment. The Navy's wartime needs grew quickly as escort ships, minesweepers and transports were sent to European waters. The slogan is a plain call to duty, typical of the many recruiting campaigns the government ran during the war.
| Created / published | c1917. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 107 x 72 cm. |
| Genre | Aug. 5 |
| Notes | Caption: Damn the torpedoes |
| Subjects | Farragut, David Glasgow,--1801-1870. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,661 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221595 |
More from the Military collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
