I'm doing my duty are you? Your Navy needs you this minute / Clinton Jordan. – Historic Reproduction
![I'm doing my duty are you? Your Navy needs you this minute / Clinton Jordan., Boston : Smith & Porter Press, [between 1914 and 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7a6948481031-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: I'm doing my duty are you? Your Navy needs you this minute / Clinton Jordan., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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I'm doing my duty are you? Your Navy needs you this minute / Clinton Jordan.
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The poster asks viewers a direct question, "I'm doing my duty are you?", and follows it with "Your Navy needs you this minute," turning a recruiting appeal into a personal challenge. It was issued in Boston by the city's Committee on Public Safety and printed by Smith & Porter Press during the years of American involvement in the First World War, when the Navy was expanding rapidly and needed sailors quickly. Its bold color lithography and blunt wording reflect the wartime posters that local committees used to pull men into the service.
| Created / published | Boston : Smith & Porter Press, [between 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Issued by City of Boston Committee on Public Safety. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Sailors--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221277 |
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