You bet I'm going back to sea!"--Register at your nearest U.S. Employment Service Office – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic print captures You bet I'm going back to sea!"--Register at your nearest U.S. Employment Service Office in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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You bet I'm going back to sea!"--Register at your nearest U.S. Employment Service Office
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A 1942 Government Printing Office poster carries the line "You bet I'm going back to sea!" and urges former seamen to register at their nearest U.S. Employment Service office. That year German submarines were sinking merchant ships off the American coast and across the Atlantic, and shipping companies needed experienced crews as quickly as they could find them. The poster's confident, plain-spoken tone was typical of wartime recruitment, which tended to appeal to pride and patriotism more than to detailed terms. It shows how the government tried to draw skilled workers back into maritime jobs.
| Created / published | LC-USZC4-6779 (color film copy transparency)LC-USZ62-123235 (b&w film copy neg.) |
|---|---|
| Medium | POS - WWII - US .J27 1942 (C size) [P&P] |
| Genre | U.S. Government Printing Office : 1942-0-478281. |
| Notes | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Subjects | 1942 |
| Original scan | 3,791 × 4,653 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220332 |
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