Don't Wait For The Draft--Volunteer – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Don't Wait For The Draft--Volunteer, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Don't Wait For The Draft--Volunteer
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Few posters of the period state their purpose as plainly as this one. Its title, "Don't Wait for the Draft," urges men to enlist before conscription decides for them. It was issued around 1917, after the United States entered the First World War in April, and it is Poster No. 3 in a series by the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers. The Selective Service Act of May 1917 made registration compulsory soon after, so the appeal captures a brief moment when volunteering and the draft were both live options.
| 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 | 2,600 × 3,783 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222363 |
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