U.S. Marines - active service - land, sea, air – Historic Print
![U.S. Marines - active service - land, sea, air, [between 1914 and 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/39/39042d7625ef-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: U.S. Marines - active service - land, sea, air, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S. Marines - active service - land, sea, air
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This recruiting poster promises Marines a choice of "land, sea, air," a pitch that set the Corps apart from an Army still associated mainly with ground campaigns. Marines of the period did serve ashore, aboard ships, and in the Corps's aviation units, which had begun in 1912. The poster appeared during the years before the United States entered the war in 1917, when the Corps was expanding, and its bright offset color was typical of the commercial lithography used for wartime enlistment appeals. Marines fought in France in 1918, including at Belleau Wood in June, and such posters were meant to turn that reputation for hard service into a call for volunteers.
| Created / published | [between 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : offset, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Marines--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,672 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221285 |
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