Enlist to-day in the 69th infantry Join the famous Irish regiment [...] Go to the front with your friends [...] – Antique Print
![Enlist to-day in the 69th infantry Join the famous Irish regiment [...] Go to the front with your friends [...], N[ew] Y[ork] : Empire City Job Print, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/78/78ead7e40dcf-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: Enlist to-day in the 69th infantry Join the famous Irish regiment [...] Go to the front with your friends [...], preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The poster's text calls the 69th Infantry "the famous Irish regiment," a New York National Guard unit whose roots ran back to the Civil War Irish Brigade and whose ranks were heavily Irish-American. The lithograph was printed in New York in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, when recruiters worked to fill units quickly. Its appeal to friends who would "go to the front together" reflects how much enlistment then depended on local loyalty, ethnic community, and neighborhood ties. The regiment later fought in France as part of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division.
| Created / published | N[ew] Y[ork] : Empire City Job Print, [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 102 x 71 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Infantry Division, 69th--Recruiting & enlistment. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Irish-Americans--Military service. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,619 × 4,512 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221768 |
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