The veteran's farewell. Enlist now! / Frank Dadd 1914 ; Printed by Petty & Sons (Leeds) Ltd., Leeds & London. – Historic Reproduction
![The veteran's farewell. Enlist now! / Frank Dadd 1914 ; Printed by Petty & Sons (Leeds) Ltd., Leeds & London., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1914] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4f/4fac6e11caa3-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 vintage poster of The veteran's farewell. Enlist now! / Frank Dadd 1914 ; Printed by Petty & Sons (Leeds) Ltd., Leeds & London. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The veteran's farewell. Enlist now! / Frank Dadd 1914 ; Printed by Petty & Sons (Leeds) Ltd., Leeds & London.
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The title pairs a veteran's farewell with a direct call to enlist, a combination that asks the viewer to take up the role the older man is handing on. Pictures like this appeared in 1914, the first year of a war that had begun in Europe that summer and soon drew in soldiers and civilians across the world. Recruitment art of the period often used personal, sentimental scenes, such as partings and send-offs, to make enlistment feel like a duty to family and country. The message is brief and urgent, with the imperative in the title doing the work of a recruiting sergeant.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1914] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 75 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | see POS - WWI - Gt Brit |
| Notes | Caption: Good Bye my lad |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--England--1910-1920. Veterans--British--1910-1920. Soldiers--British--1910-1920. Farewells--England--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,019 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224096 |
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