Enlist in the Navy To arms / Milton Bancroft. – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Enlist in the Navy To arms / Milton Bancroft., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Enlist in the Navy To arms / Milton Bancroft.
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Where many wartime recruiting posters show a single figure, this one pairs the words "To arms" with a bugle, giving a call to the Navy a martial urgency. Printed in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War that April, it belongs to the wave of enlistment posters issued as the country rapidly expanded its armed forces. The color lithograph was made for a U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, where bold lettering and strong color were meant to catch the eye of passersby. Milton Bancroft's design asks the viewer to answer a call rather than simply consider a career.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 103 x 67 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | U.S. Navy Recruiting Station. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Sailors--1910-1920. Bugles--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,680 × 4,696 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222867 |
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