Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex. – Historic Print
![Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex., London : published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/98ec02db3892-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 vintage poster of Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex.
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Few recruiting posters from 1915 rely on words alone, and this one ties its appeal to a single event: the sinking of the Lusitania. A German U-boat torpedoed the passenger liner off the Irish coast on 7 May 1915, and the loss of nearly 1,200 lives, many of them civilians, gave British recruiters a powerful argument that the nation should answer the attack by enlisting. Printed by David Allen & Sons in Harrow for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, it shows how wartime propaganda turned a tragedy into a call to arms.
| Created / published | London : published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 153 x 101 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster is text only. Poster no. 91. 5M - 5/15. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Lusitania (Steamship)--Disasters. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,143 × 5,141 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1616_Remember_the_Lusitania_1915 |
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