Your chums are fighting -- why arent you? – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Your chums are fighting -- why arent you?. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few wartime recruiting appeals were as blunt as this one, which asks the viewer outright why he is not fighting while his friends are. Issued in 1917 under the sponsorship of the Central Recruiting Committee in Canada, it is a color lithograph built to shame men into joining the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Voluntary enlistment had slowed considerably by then, and the government passed the Military Service Act later that year to introduce conscription. The poster's appeal to comradeship shows how heavily recruiters relied on peer pressure at that stage of the war.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 97 x 63 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · Central Recruiting Committee funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. Soldiers--Canadian--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,703 × 5,775 px · prints to 16 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1775_Your_chums_are_fighting_1917 |
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