U.S. Navy--Here he is sir--We need him and you too! Navy Recruiting Station / drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. – Vintage Print
(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 rare vintage poster captures U.S. Navy--Here he is sir--We need him and you too! Navy Recruiting Station / drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S. Navy--Here he is sir--We need him and you too! Navy Recruiting Station / drawn by Charles Dana Gibson.
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A mother presents her son to Uncle Sam in this Navy recruiting poster by Charles Dana Gibson, the illustrator best known for the Gibson Girl. Gibson drew it in 1914, more than two years before the United States entered the First World War in April 1917. The record also names the United States Food Administration, a wartime agency, as a sponsor, which suggests the poster was reissued or used later in the conflict. Its pairing of a mother and child with the figure of Uncle Sam shows how recruiters presented military service as a family duty.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 103 x 71 cm. |
| Notes | Courtesy of Life. · United States Food Administration sponsor. |
| Subjects | United States. Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Mothers & children--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,001 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 550_US_NavyHere_he_is_sirWe_1914 |
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