Come now. Be honest with yourself / P.J.W. ; printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex. – Historic Reproduction
![Come now. Be honest with yourself / P.J.W. ; printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/84a41e184c80-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: Come now. Be honest with yourself / P.J.W. ; printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Come now. Be honest with yourself / P.J.W. ; printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex.
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Its appeal is aimed at the individual man rather than the nation as a whole: "Come now. Be honest with yourself" asks each reader to weigh his own reasons for not enlisting. Issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in London in July 1915, it is numbered 130 in that body's poster series. Britain still relied on voluntary enlistment at this stage of the war, and the committee, made up of members of Parliament, produced a steady run of posters like this one to keep volunteers coming forward. The color lithograph was printed by David Allen & Sons in Harrow, a firm that handled much of the official recruiting work of the period.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) on two sheets : lithograph, color ; 102 x 128 cm. |
| Genre | July 1915. Poster no. 130. W. 9116 25M. 9/15. Title from item." |
| Notes | Your arms |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Military uniforms--British--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,044 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1296_Come_now_Be_honest_with_1915 |
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