It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb. Join the army at once & help to stop an air raid. God save the king / Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd., 50, Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. – Vintage Wall Art
![It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb. Join the army at once & help to stop an air raid. God save the king / Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd., 50, Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne., [London] : Publicity Department, Central Recruiting Depot, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/23ba664fac03-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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This vintage poster of It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb. Join the army at once & help to stop an air raid. God save the king / Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd., 50, Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb. Join the army at once & help to stop an air raid. God save the king / Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd., 50, Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Rather than showing the battlefield, this poster turns to the sky over London, where German airships and the searchlights hunting them are its subjects. Its message is blunt: a soldier faces bullets in the open, but a civilian at home was exposed to bombs falling from above, and enlisting offered a way to help stop the raids. Issued by the Central Recruiting Depot in 1915, the year Zeppelins first bombed the capital, it shows how wartime recruiting turned fear of air attack into an appeal to volunteer. The color lithograph was printed in Newcastle upon Tyne by Andrew Reid & Co., a reminder that recruiting posters were produced commercially across Britain.
| Created / published | [London] : Publicity Department, Central Recruiting Depot, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 74 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain--1910-1920. Airships--German--England--London--1910-1920. Searchlights--England--London--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,182 × 5,158 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224182 |
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