[Soldier beckoning] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex. – Vintage Wall Art
![[Soldier beckoning] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/22/220999d0d5a9-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: [Soldier beckoning] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Soldier beckoning] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex.
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Unlike most recruiting posters of its time, this one carries no slogan, so the beckoning gesture of the uniformed soldier does all the persuading. Issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in London in 1915, it was printed by David Allen & Sons in Harrow as a halftone poster, and its catalog number, 129, places it in the committee's numbered series. The committee was formed to encourage voluntary enlistment in Britain's expanding wartime army, and the poster reflects that effort to win recruits before conscription was introduced in 1916.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone ; 98 x 63 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Poster has no text. Poster no. 129. W.9147. 20M. 9/15. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Soldiers--British--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,025 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1821_Soldier_beckoning_pri_1915 |
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