Give the Guard a fighting chance Fight alongside your friends - Fill up the National Guard. – Vintage Print
![Give the Guard a fighting chance Fight alongside your friends - Fill up the National Guard., Philadelphia : Edward Stern Company, [between 1917 and 1919] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/31/31625e82ca45-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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A window into the past: Give the Guard a fighting chance Fight alongside your friends - Fill up the National Guard., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Give the Guard a fighting chance Fight alongside your friends - Fill up the National Guard.
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Give the Guard a fighting chance" asks Philadelphia men to join the National Guard and serve alongside their friends, pitching enlistment as a neighborhood commitment. The lithograph was printed by the Edward Stern Company and issued through the city's Committee of Public Safety and its Department of Military Service, local wartime bodies that promoted recruiting. After the United States entered the war in 1917, Guard units were called into federal service and sent overseas, including units from Pennsylvania. Posters like this one, meant to be taken in at a glance on street walls, built their appeals around community loyalty.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Edward Stern Company, [between 1917 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Issued(?) by: Committee of Public Safety, Department of Military Service, South Penn Square, Philadelphia. |
| Subjects | United States.--Militia Bureau--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Military personnel--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,815 × 4,731 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221041 |
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