A Wonderful Opportunity For YOU – Vintage Print
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Description
A window into the past: A Wonderful Opportunity For YOU, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The caption "Ashore, on leave" shows the poster's pitch: a sailor's time off the ship, the part of Navy life a recruiter wanted young men to picture. The lithograph was printed in New York in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, when the Navy was expanding quickly and needed volunteers. Its title, "A wonderful opportunity for you," shows how directly the poster sold enlistment, promising travel, companionship and a steady place in the service rather than describing the work at sea.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Original scan | 1,117 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1762_A_wonderful_opportunity_1917 |
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