Warding off a night attack – Antique Wall Art
![Warding off a night attack, [1917] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/81/8162eb759616-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 historic photograph of Warding off a night attack brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Warding off a night attack
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The poster's headline, "Warding off a night attack," pairs a dramatic scene with a plea for recruits, and its small print points to a specific storefront: the Navy recruiting station at 34 East 23rd Street in New York City. Printed in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it was one of many posters meant to draw men into the Navy. Its text describes the 5-inch rapid-fire guns carried by dreadnoughts and says gun crews must be "keen, calm, quick, agile, precise, and ready." The poster is part of the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection at the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) ; 42 x 34 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Night photographs 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Text continues: Each dreadnaught carries twenty or more 5-inch rapid fire guns [...] In order to be an efficient member of a gun's crew, a man-o-war's-man must be keen, calm, quick, agile, precise, and ready, instantly, to meet any emergency-Navy training develops such men and they always make good. [...] Navy Recruiting Station, 34 East 23rd St., N.Y. City, bet. 4th & Madison Av. near subway. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy.--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Sailors--1910-1920. Artillery (Weaponry)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,595 × 4,467 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222372 |
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