Come now! With the 173rd Overseas Battalion Canadian Highlanders – Vintage Print
(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 Come now! With the 173rd Overseas Battalion Canadian Highlanders. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Come now! With the 173rd Overseas Battalion Canadian Highlanders
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A color lithograph addressed to men of Highland descent, this poster calls on recruits to join the 173rd Overseas Battalion, Canadian Highlanders. Canada raised many such battalions between 1914 and 1918 to supply the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and many drew their identity from regional or ancestral ties, here the Scottish Highland tradition. Posters like this one were pasted on city streets and in public halls, where their bold color and direct appeal to duty and kinship were meant to draw men to the recruiting office and toward service overseas.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 71 x 53 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation sponsor. |
| Subjects | Canada. Canadian Army--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. Soldiers--Canadian--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,925 × 6,140 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 424_Come_now_With_the_173rd_1914 |
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