Hoot mon, the kilties are here! British recruiting week July 16-21. – Vintage Wall Art
![Hoot mon, the kilties are here! British recruiting week July 16-21., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6e/6e68f93e80f8-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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This rare vintage poster captures Hoot mon, the kilties are here! British recruiting week July 16-21. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hoot mon, the kilties are here! British recruiting week July 16-21.
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Its headline, "Hoot mon, the kilties are here!", sets it apart with Scots dialect that points to the kilted Highland regiments of the British army. The record dates it to 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, and it casts Uncle Sam as the figure urging men to enlist. Wartime posters like this relied on humor, national pride and familiar symbols to make a distant conflict feel immediate. The reference to a "British recruiting week" in July ties the appeal to a specific campaign period.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 101 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,781 × 4,720 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1422_Hoot_mon_the_kilties_ar_1917 |
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