An education for you Join the tanks U.S. Army / J.P. Wharton, 1st Lt. Tank Corps. – Vintage Print
(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 rare vintage poster captures An education for you Join the tanks U.S. Army / J.P. Wharton, 1st Lt. Tank Corps. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lead by "An education for you," this 1919 color lithograph pitches the Army's Tank Corps as a place to learn a trade rather than only a place to fight. Lt. J.P. Wharton of the Tank Corps designed it, and the Engineer Reproduction Plant at Washington Barracks, D.C., printed it. The date places it after the Armistice, when the Army still needed recruits for its new mechanized branch. The Tank Corps was created in 1917 and was short-lived, so the poster captures a brief moment when recruiters were selling mechanical training to young men as much as military service.
| Created / published | Washington Barracks, D.C. : Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army, 1919. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | A.G.O.R.S. no. 208, 10-24-19. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Tank Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Men--Employment--1910-1920. Military education--1910-1920. Tanks (Military science)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221039 |
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