Tell that to the Marines! – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Tell that to the Marines!, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tell that to the Marines!
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The address in the title, 24 East 23rd Street, places the scene in Manhattan's Flatiron district, a busy commercial neighborhood in 1918. The phrase "Tell That to the Marines" is an old American expression for dismissing a story as too farfetched to believe, and it had been in common use for decades before the war. The date falls in the final year of World War I, when the Marine Corps was growing quickly and its fighting at Belleau Wood that June had made it famous at home. The phrase's teasing tone is worth noticing against that serious wartime backdrop.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color ; 101.7 x 76.2 cm. |
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| Genre | no. 19. Exhibited in: "Nazi Propaganda" at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| Notes | [ca. 1918] |
| Subjects | United States.--Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Moral & ethical aspects. Anger--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,152 × 1,459 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217202 |
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