Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith." – Historic Reproduction
![Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith.", Chicago : Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., [1919?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/41/4127286cf46b-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 rare vintage poster captures Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith." in remarkable 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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Join the Air Service - Give 'er the gun" Learn - earn / Warren Keith."
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Its slogan, "Give 'er the gun," and the pitch "Learn - earn" sell the Army Air Service as a place to acquire a trade and a paycheck, not just a fighting job. The poster is a chromolithograph by Warren Keith, printed by Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co. in Chicago, and the record dates it to about 1919. That was the year after the armistice ended World War I, when the Army still needed to fill its ranks and aviation was drawing young men who had grown up with the airplane. Recruiting art of this period often mixed patriotic emblems with images of modern machines, and this one follows that pattern.
| Created / published | Chicago : Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., [1919?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Air Service--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Air operations--American. Aircraft--1910-1920. Emblems--1910-1920. Military education--1910-1920. Men--Employment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,362 × 2,100 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221081 |
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