General Pershing says: -- A chance for you [...] earn while you learn [...] your government furnishes everything. – Historic Print
![General Pershing says: -- A chance for you [...] earn while you learn [...] your government furnishes everything., [1917 or 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7ae36b688556-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: General Pershing says: -- A chance for you [...] earn while you learn [...] your government furnishes everything., 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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General Pershing says: -- A chance for you [...] earn while you learn [...] your government furnishes everything.
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A recruiting poster that puts the words of General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, at the center of its pitch to join the Quartermaster Corps. Its promise to let men "earn while you learn," with the government furnishing everything, speaks to a wartime army that needed large numbers of soldiers for supply, transport and support work. Posters like this one were part of a broad effort to fill those ranks in 1917 and 1918, when the Army was expanding rapidly and the appeal of paid job training was meant to draw young men in.
| Created / published | [1917 or 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : color ; 64 x 48 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | P. & S. Hist. Br. 10M. 6-19. |
| Subjects | Pershing, John J. (John Joseph),--1860-1948. United States.--Army.--Quartermaster Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,800 × 4,716 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221084 |
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