The service for training and travel - Ages 17 to 35 - Join the Navy - Apply Navy recruiting station / James Montgomery Flagg. – Vintage Wall Art
(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 The service for training and travel - Ages 17 to 35 - Join the Navy - Apply Navy recruiting station / James Montgomery Flagg.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The service for training and travel - Ages 17 to 35 - Join the Navy - Apply Navy recruiting station / James Montgomery Flagg.
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Flagg's poster speaks to a specific audience: its text names the 17-to-35 age range and pitches the Navy as a path to training and travel rather than to combat. James Montgomery Flagg, best known for the "I Want You" Uncle Sam poster issued the same year, produced this color lithograph in 1917, when the United States had just entered the First World War. The record also notes a stamp from a Philadelphia recruiting office at 1515 Arch Street, a reminder that such posters were sent to local stations to draw in volunteers.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 59 x 77 cm. |
| Notes | Stamped twice: 1515 Arch St. Philadelphia Pa. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | United States. Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Sailors--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,682 × 3,777 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1640_The_service_for_trainin_1917 |
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