You, wireless fans, help the Navy get the Hun submarine 1000 radio men wanted in the Navy and the Naval Reserve. – Vintage Wall Art
![You, wireless fans, help the Navy get the Hun submarine 1000 radio men wanted in the Navy and the Naval Reserve., [between 1914 and 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/8593837448cd-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.)
Description
A window into the past: You, wireless fans, help the Navy get the Hun submarine 1000 radio men wanted in the Navy and the Naval Reserve., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This color lithograph speaks directly to amateur wireless enthusiasts, calling on them to help the Navy find the 1,000 radio men it needed, with applications taken at 280 Broadway or any recruiting station. Radio was becoming essential to naval operations during the First World War, when ships relied on wireless messages to coordinate movements and report enemy activity, including the German submarines the poster calls the "Hun submarine." Hobbyists who had already built receivers and learned Morse code were a natural pool of recruits, and posters like this one tried to channel their skills into military service. The piece is a useful window onto how the government turned civilian technical hobbies into wartime manpower.
| Created / published | [between 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster caption continues: Apply at 280 Broadway or any recruiting station. Title transcribed from item. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221283 |
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