Enlist in the Signal Corps--Receive a technical education free / J. McGibbon Brown S.C. U.S.A. – Historic 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 Enlist in the Signal Corps--Receive a technical education free / J. McGibbon Brown S.C. U.S.A., a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Enlist in the Signal Corps--Receive a technical education free / J. McGibbon Brown S.C. U.S.A.
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Few recruiting posters promise as much as this one: a free technical education in trades ranging from telephony and cable splicing to wireless telegraphy, photography, and even carrier pigeons. The Army was still recruiting in 1919, just after the Armistice, and the Signal Corps had become central to American military communication in France, where its crews strung field telephone lines, operated radio sets, and kept messages moving. Printed by the Government Printing Office from a design by J. McGibbon Brown, the poster reads almost like a catalog of the technical skills the war had pushed into mainstream use.
| Created / published | [1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 64 x 49 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Jobs and specialties are listed: Electricity, telephony, photography, line work, cable splicing, tel. construction, wireless, telegraphy, carrier pigeons, submarine cables, motorcyclists, chauffeurs, etc. Government Printing Office. No. 3-6914. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Signal Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Electrical apparatus--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,655 × 4,672 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222968 |
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