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Your King & Country Need You: Recruitment Poster, WWI – Historic Poster Reproduction

Your King & Country Need You: Recruitment Poster, WWI, 1914 — vintage poster
Your King & Country Need You: Recruitment Poster, WWI, 1914. Vintage poster from the World War I collection.

(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: Your King & Country Need You: Recruitment Poster, WWI, preserved in this vintage poster. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Your King & Country Need You: Recruitment Poster, WWI

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Kitchener's stern pointing finger and direct gaze are the feature that sets this 1914 poster apart from the many other World War I recruitment images on the board. Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, appeared on the poster with the words "Your King and Country Need You," and it was produced to drive volunteers into the army after the war began in August 1914. The design became one of the most widely copied images of the conflict, and its message of personal obligation still shapes how the war is remembered.

Created / published1914
Original scan4,148 × 5,164 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference1203_Your_king_country_need_1914

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