69eme Bataillon. Nos gloires passees et futures – 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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This rare vintage poster captures 69eme Bataillon. Nos gloires passees et futures in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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69eme Bataillon. Nos gloires passees et futures
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The title, "Nos gloires passées et futures" ("Our past and future glories"), points to the appeal this recruiting poster makes to French-speaking Canadians. It was issued in 1915 for the 69th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, a unit raised in Quebec. Like other wartime recruiting material aimed at Francophone audiences, it links enlistment to family honor and the military traditions of the French-Canadian past. Its color lithography and large format were typical of the posters printed to fill battalion ranks during the early years of the First World War, when Canada relied on voluntary enlistment.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 72 x 106 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 5,745 × 4,623 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1224_69eme_Bataillon_Nos_glo_1915 |
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