Have you any women-folk worth defending? Remember the women of Belgium. Join to-day / Hely's Limited, Litho, Dublin, P661. – Historic Reproduction
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(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 Have you any women-folk worth defending? Remember the women of Belgium. Join to-day / Hely's Limited, Litho, Dublin, P661.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Have you any women-folk worth defending? Remember the women of Belgium. Join to-day / Hely's Limited, Litho, Dublin, P661.
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Printed in Dublin by Hely's Limited, this recruiting poster asks whether men have any women-folk worth defending and urges them to remember the women of Belgium. The reference is to the German invasion of Belgium in 1914, when reports of harm done to civilians circulated widely in British and Irish newspapers and became a powerful rallying point for enlistment. Dated 1915, the chromolithograph belongs to the recruiting drive of that year, when the British Army depended heavily on volunteers, and it shows how appeals to protect home and family were used to draw men into the ranks.
| Created / published | [Dublin : s.n., 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 74 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Irish 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918--Women--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Ireland--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,023 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 564_Have_you_any_womenfolk_1915 |
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