The horse is man's noblest companion - join the cavalry and have a courageous friend / Horst Schreck 1920. – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The horse is man's noblest companion - join the cavalry and have a courageous friend / Horst Schreck 1920.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The horse is man's noblest companion - join the cavalry and have a courageous friend / Horst Schreck 1920.
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A 1920 recruiting poster that presents cavalry service as a bond between a soldier and his horse, printed as a color lithograph at the Army's Engineer Reproduction Plant in Washington, D.C. It appeared only a year or so after the armistice, when the mounted arm was still recruiting even as motor vehicles were changing how the Army moved. Its cheerful appeal to a "courageous friend" reflects how much of the Army's public image, and its daily work, still depended on horses.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 64 x 48 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | U.S. Army recruiting office: [blank]. Engineer Reproduction plant, U.S. Army, Washington Barracks, D.C. 1920. No. 2686-1. A.G.O., R.S. No. 223, 2-7-20. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Cavalry--1910-1920. Horses--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,149 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119813 |
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