Gee!! I wish I were a man Id join the Navy Be a man and do it - United States Navy recruiting station / Howard Chandler Christy 1917. – 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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Gee!! I wish I were a man Id join the Navy Be a man and do it - United States Navy recruiting station / Howard Chandler Christy 1917. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gee!! I wish I were a man Id join the Navy Be a man and do it - United States Navy recruiting station / Howard Chandler Christy 1917.
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A young woman's wish, not a sailor's, drives this 1917 recruiting poster, which declares that she would join the Navy if she were a man. The title credits Howard Chandler Christy, whose glamorous illustrated women were widely reproduced during the war, but the catalog entries also name Louis Tinayre and Frederic Remington, so the attribution is uncertain. The poster appeared the year the United States entered the First World War, when the Navy needed men fast, and its playful, flirtatious appeal and cross-dressing joke show how wartime recruiting tried to draw in men through humor.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 105 x 68 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Urgent call for support . . . Signed: Louis Tinayre. Promotional goal: Fr. G2. 1917. Item is no. 193 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BYC · Remington Frederic 1861-1909. |
| Subjects | United States. Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Cross dressing--1910-1920. Military uniforms--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,008 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 658_Gee_I_wish_I_were_a_man_1917 |
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