2285 New Yorkers volunteered in one week--Is your name on this list? – Historic Print
![2285 New Yorkers volunteered in one week--Is your name on this list?, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/84dc1ee78721-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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2285 New Yorkers volunteered in one week--Is your name on this list? comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A headline question sets this poster apart: it asks New Yorkers whether their own names belong on a list of 2,285 men who volunteered in a single week. Issued in 1917, shortly after the United States entered the First World War that April, it came from the Mayor's Committee on National Defense in New York. Its four photographs show life in army training camps, a soldier captioned "That bombproof smile," a note on where General Pershing would soon be, and signal work done by daylight, a reminder of how much the army relied on communication.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) ; 53 x 83 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Photographs are captioned: Life in the United States training camps; That bombproof smile; Where Pershing will soon be; Signalling by daylight. The Mayor's Committee on National Defense, The Recruiting Committee, 50 East 42nd Street, New York. Bulletin No. 2. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,443 × 3,600 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1818_2285_New_Yorkers_volunt_1917 |
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