Don't Wait For The Draft--Volunteer – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Don't Wait For The Draft--Volunteer. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Don't Wait For The Draft--Volunteer
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Its title, "Don't Wait for the Draft--Volunteer," sets it apart from the other recruiting images on this board: it asks men to enlist before conscription could force them into service. The United States entered the First World War in April 1917, and Congress passed the Selective Service Act in May, so the poster reflects a moment when many young men faced a choice between volunteering on their own terms and being called up. The record credits it to Guenther and to the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, a trade group whose poster series, marked here as No. 3, shows how wartime appeals reached the public through commercial printing.
| Created / published | c. 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | poster, lithograph, color, 99 x 67 cm. |
| Notes | Guenther. Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, Inc. Poster No. 3. Compliments of Joseph H. Tooker. Forms part of Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection, Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 2,100 × 3,056 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222363 |
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