Cold-blooded murder! Remember... Enlist to-day / printed by Roberts & Leete Ltd. London. – Vintage Wall Art
![Cold-blooded murder! Remember... Enlist to-day / printed by Roberts & Leete Ltd. London., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7d/7d4787b961a8-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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This vintage poster of Cold-blooded murder! Remember... Enlist to-day / printed by Roberts & Leete Ltd. London. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cold-blooded murder! Remember... Enlist to-day / printed by Roberts & Leete Ltd. London.
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Many British recruiting posters of the First World War leaned on pictures, but this one is set entirely in type. Its headline, "Cold-blooded murder! Remember... Enlist to-day," asks the reader to set a list of charges against Germany beside a personal decision to join up. The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee issued it in London, probably in 1915, as part of an effort to fill the ranks before conscription began in 1916. The text draws on the atrocity reporting that spread through Britain after the German invasion of Belgium in 1914, and the poster is one of a numbered series.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 101 x 63 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. Poster is text only, listing Germany's crimes against God and man." Poster no. 97. W. 2464/446." |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,018 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1292_Coldblooded_murder_Reme_1915 |
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