Go over the top with U.S. Marines / John A. Coughlin. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Go over the top with U.S. Marines / John A. Coughlin., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Go over the top with U.S. Marines / John A. Coughlin.
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Go over the top" was British trench slang for climbing out of a trench to attack, and this 1917 color lithograph by John A. Coughlin uses the phrase to recruit for the U.S. Marine Corps. Its subjects include a mortar, a short-barreled weapon that lobbed explosives into enemy trenches, which signals the close-quarters fighting Americans prepared for after the United States entered the war in April 1917. The text along the bottom is unusual, since it includes a British Red Cross appeal asking the public to give on a specific day in October. That mix reflects how Allied charities and recruiting campaigns often shared printed space during the war.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 71 x 54 cm. |
| Notes | Text continues: The British Red Cross asks your help now. Give on our day Thursday Oct. 19th for your stricken defenders on all the battle fronts. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | United States. Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Mortars (Ordnance)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,165 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1389_Go_over_the_top_with_US_1917 |
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