Lads, you're wanted: go and help / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex. – Antique Print
![Lads, you're wanted: go and help / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/73/73989dc40019-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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A window into the past: Lads, you're wanted: go and help / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lads, you're wanted: go and help / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex.
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Its headline, "Lads, you're wanted: go and help," speaks directly to young men, and this is poster number 78 in the series issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in 1915. That year Britain still relied on voluntary enlistment, and the committee produced a large run of posters like this one to press men to join the army before conscription was introduced in 1916. The silhouette style, with flat dark figures against a plain colored ground, was a common and inexpensive way to make a quick, memorable appeal. The poster was printed by David Allen & Sons in Harrow, one of the firms that produced much of Britain's wartime poster output.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 15 x 76 cm. |
| Genre | Silhouettes 1910-1920.War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster no. 78. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Soldiers--British--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,141 × 4,136 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1507_Lads_youre_wanted_go_an_1915 |
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