Travel? Adventure? Answer - Join the Marines! Enlist to-day for 2-3 or 4 years / James Montgomery Flagg. – 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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Travel? Adventure? Answer - Join the Marines! Enlist to-day for 2-3 or 4 years / James Montgomery Flagg.
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Few recruiting posters promise travel as directly as this one, which asks, "Travel? Adventure?" and answers with a Marine in the foreground and leopards in the scene. James Montgomery Flagg, the illustrator best known for his "I Want You" Uncle Sam poster, made it in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War. The Marine Corps needed to expand quickly, and posters like this one tried to appeal to young men looking for excitement and a way out of ordinary work. The pitch to see the world, rather than the grim realities of the trenches, is worth noting.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 101 x 70 cm. |
| Notes | 418 9th Street N.W. Washington D.C. RCTG. 87. · United States. Fuel Administration funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Marines (Military personnel)--1910-1920. Cats--1910-1920. Leopards--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,072 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 477_Travel_Adventure_Answer_1917 |
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