50000 men wanted – Vintage Wall Art
(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 vintage poster of 50000 men wanted brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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This color lithograph carries the blunt appeal "50000 men wanted," a target that shows how openly New South Wales measured its wartime needs in headcounts. Posters like it were part of the voluntary recruiting campaign that filled the Australian Imperial Force during 1915, when the country depended on enlistment rather than conscription. The approach changed after two conscription referendums failed, in 1916 and 1917. The poster's history is also notable: a former owner was the Rehse Archive for Contemporary History and Publicistics in Germany, a reminder that recruiting images circulated among collectors of wartime propaganda far from where they were printed.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 90 x 58 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Australia--New South Wales. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,649 × 5,775 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1223_50000_men_wanted_1915 |
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