Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station any firehouse [or] – Vintage Poster
![Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station any firehouse [or], 1941 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/402c7767ce24-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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This vintage poster of Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station any firehouse [or] brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Urgent - volunteers needed at once! Join up at any police station any firehouse [or]
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The poster's call to join at "any police station [or] any firehouse" shows that recruitment ran through everyday local institutions rather than a single headquarters. Printed in 1941, before the United States entered the war in December, it reflects the civilian defense drives that cities were organizing across the country. The Philadelphia Council of Defense sponsored it, and the Federal Art Project produced it in silkscreen, a stencil process that allowed artists to print bold, flat color in quantity.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Civil defense--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. War work--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1940-1950. Community service--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,763 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 425_Urgent_volunteers_need_1941 |
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