Overseas service scale of pay [and] How to enlist – 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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A window into the past: Overseas service scale of pay [and] How to enlist, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Overseas service scale of pay [and] How to enlist
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The poster lays out the pay due to men who served overseas and explains how to enlist, a pairing of money and procedure that was meant to answer the first questions a prospective recruit would ask. In 1915 Canada was raising the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and recruiting appeals like this one tried to persuade men to join battalions bound for the fighting in Europe. The catalog credits the United States Fuel Administration as sponsor, an unexpected attribution for a Canadian enlistment notice and a detail worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 106 x 72 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · United States. Fuel Administration funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,520 × 5,662 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1589_Overseas_service_scale_1915 |
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