Come on, boys! Do your duty by enlisting now! – Antique Print
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(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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Come on, boys! Do your duty by enlisting now!
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Number four in a series from the Wentworth Institute, a Boston technical school, this 1917 color poster makes its appeal in a direct command: "Come on boys!" The United States had entered the First World War in April 1917, and recruiters depended on posters like this one to bring volunteers in quickly. Designed by Halsted Frances Adams, it presents enlisting as a personal duty young men owed their country, a message that ran through much of the wartime recruiting effort.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Wentworth Institute poster no. 4. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Recruiting & enlistment--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,805 × 4,662 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220810 |
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