This gun is over there"--Where are you? Man the guns of the Navy--Get in the game!--Enlist." – Vintage Print
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(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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Step back in time with This gun is over there"--Where are you? Man the guns of the Navy--Get in the game!--Enlist.", a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This gun is over there"--Where are you? Man the guns of the Navy--Get in the game!--Enlist."
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This 1917 color lithograph urges viewers to "Man the guns of the Navy" and "Get in the game," with the line "This gun is over there" likely echoing the title of George M. Cohan's song "Over There," published that same year as the United States entered the First World War. The poster was later overprinted with the address of a U.S. Navy recruiting station on Second Avenue near 59th Street in New York City, which shows how such images were reused for local recruiting. Posters like this helped the Navy build its wartime ranks by presenting service as sporting, patriotic and exciting.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 52 x 35 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster is twice printed over with text: U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 1129 2nd Ave., Near 59th St. N.Y. City. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Artillery (Weaponry)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,585 × 4,457 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222238 |
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