Men wanted for U.S. Coast Guard – Antique Wall Art
![Men wanted for U.S. Coast Guard, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5eb8d8861b80-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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Step back in time with Men wanted for U.S. Coast Guard, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Men wanted for U.S. Coast Guard
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Few recruiting posters from 1917 name a trade as plainly as this one, which asks for machinists and firemen, the men who tended a ship's boilers and engines. The United States had entered the First World War that April, and the Coast Guard, then part of the Treasury Department, was expanding its ranks for wartime duties along the coasts. Large color lithographs like this were typically hung in post offices and public places to reach workers with mechanical skills, not just seafaring experience.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 120 x 60 cm. |
| Genre | firemen |
| Notes | Text specifies, machinists |
| Subjects | United States.--Coast Guard--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,757 × 4,642 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222791 |
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