Will you supply eyes for the Navy? Navy ships need binoculars and spy-glasses / Gordon Grant Sackett Wilhelms Corporation New York. – Historic Print
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Will you supply eyes for the Navy? Navy ships need binoculars and spy-glasses / Gordon Grant Sackett Wilhelms Corporation New York.
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Few wartime posters ask civilians for something as personal as their own binoculars. This one, printed in New York in 1917, asks the public to supply binoculars and spyglasses to the Navy, offering a dollar for each glass accepted and promising its return after the war if possible. The appeal came shortly after the United States entered the First World War that April, when naval lookouts on destroyers relied on good optics to watch for submarines. Gordon Grant's design pairs this request with a second question, "Will you help us stand watch on a destroyer?", a reminder that the war at sea depended on civilians as well as ships.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : offset color ; 73 x 52 cm. |
| Notes | Text continues: Glasses will be returned at termination of war if possible. One dollar will be paid for each one accepted. Tag each article with your name and address and express or mail to Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt Asst. Secy. of Navy c/o Naval Observatory Washington D.C. Will you help us stand watch on a destroyer? · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Communications--United States. World War 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Sailors--1910-1920. Blindfolds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,777 × 4,716 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 314_Will_you_supply_eyes_fo_1917 |
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