U.S. Navy: Help Your Country! Enlist in the Navy – Historic Reproduction
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A window into the past: U.S. Navy: Help Your Country! Enlist in the Navy, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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U.S. Navy: Help Your Country! Enlist in the Navy
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World War I recruiting posters like this one were built to pull young men into the Navy at a moment when the service was expanding fast after the United States entered the war in April 1917. The slogan "Help Your Country!" frames enlistment as a patriotic duty rather than a career choice, a pitch that appealed to a public swept up in wartime fervor. Posters of this kind hung in post offices, train stations and storefronts, where they competed for attention with dozens of other government appeals. Its message reflects how the government used commercial-style art to mobilize civilians for the war effort.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Original scan | 4,006 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 282_US_Navy_Help_your_coun_1917 |
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