The men know home folks know YWCA hostess houses in seventy camps / Briggs. – Antique Print
![The men know home folks know YWCA hostess houses in seventy camps / Briggs., [1918]. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/26/26bbd38164b7-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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The men know home folks know YWCA hostess houses in seventy camps / Briggs. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The men know home folks know YWCA hostess houses in seventy camps / Briggs.
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Seventy army camps are named in this color lithograph, which promotes the YWCA's hostess houses as a homelike place for soldiers and the families who visited them. The poster was drawn by the cartoonist Briggs, whose work appeared in the New York Tribune. During the war the association ran such houses near training camps, offering meals, reading rooms and lodging, and the poster's domestic appeal shows how heavily wartime messaging leaned on the idea of home.
| Created / published | [1918]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 36 x 56 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Credit: Briggs in the N.Y. Tribune. |
| Subjects | Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Military life--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,721 × 3,766 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220972 |
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