A wonderful opportunity for you--United States Navy [...] / Ruttan. – Antique Wall Art
![A wonderful opportunity for you--United States Navy [...] / Ruttan., New York, N.Y. : New-Art Lithographic Company Inc., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9a/9a2e9b3cc003-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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Step back in time with A wonderful opportunity for you--United States Navy [...] / Ruttan., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A wonderful opportunity for you--United States Navy [...] / Ruttan.
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The title, *A wonderful opportunity*, reads like a sly invitation, and in 1917 that kind of phrasing was common in material aimed at home fronts being asked to give more of their money, labor, and sons. Across the warring nations, governments and private publishers produced a steady stream of posters, cartoons, and printed appeals urging citizens to buy war bonds, conserve food, and take up war work. Whether the piece is meant as earnest encouragement or as irony, the wording shows how wartime writers tried to present sacrifice as a privilege. The imagery will show which reading the artist intended.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : New-Art Lithographic Company Inc., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 95 x 52 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Image caption: Ashore, on leave. Monogram RKC 2 in a triangle. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Sailors--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,610 × 4,466 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222374 |
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