Keep the stars shining for Uncle Sam - Join the Quartermaster Corps / John W. Sheeres - Q.M.C. – Vintage Wall Art
![Keep the stars shining for Uncle Sam - Join the Quartermaster Corps / John W. Sheeres - Q.M.C., [1919] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5a/5ac7e5062395-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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A window into the past: Keep the stars shining for Uncle Sam - Join the Quartermaster Corps / John W. Sheeres - Q.M.C., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Keep the stars shining for Uncle Sam - Join the Quartermaster Corps / John W. Sheeres - Q.M.C.
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Uncle Sam is the central figure here, asked to "keep the stars shining," a line that echoes the service flags many families displayed in their windows during the war. Dated 1919, the poster appeared after the armistice, when the army was shrinking and still needed volunteers for peacetime service. Its pitch is practical: the Quartermaster Corps, which handled supplies, clothing and transport, offered a young man the chance to become a "business soldier" with a one- or three-year enlistment. John W. Sheeres's lithograph shows how recruiting art of the period still leaned on wartime patriotism while selling a steady job.
| Created / published | [1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 64 x 43 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Text continues: For your future success, be a business soldier in the United States Army. Enlistment for one or three years are [sic] now being made at [blank]. A.G.O. 203 - 8-5-19 - 25M. No. 3-7009. Title from item. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Quartermaster Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,032 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223239 |
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