If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy. – Antique 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 vintage poster of If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy.
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Howard Chandler Christy, whose glamorous women appeared on magazine covers and advertising across the country, drew this 1915 call to arms for the Marine Corps. The slogan "If you want to fight!" speaks to the preparedness debate of that year, when the United States was still neutral in the European war but military recruiting was already expanding. Color halftone posters like this one hung in post offices, storefronts and town squares, reaching far more people than a recruiter could on foot.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone color. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J26. 1915. · Witzel Josef Rudolf artist. |
| Subjects | United States. Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Women--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,215 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1057_If_you_want_to_fight_Jo_1915 |
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