U.S. Marines - serve America on land and sea – Historic Reproduction
![U.S. Marines - serve America on land and sea, [between 1914 and 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a9/a93a3d6e7ce8-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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A window into the past: U.S. Marines - serve America on land and sea, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S. Marines - serve America on land and sea
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Recruiting posters like this one were a staple of American wartime campaigns, and this chromolithograph pitches the Marine Corps as a service that fought on two fronts, both land and sea. The poster's slogan, "serve America on land and sea," signals that the Corps offered enlistees a mix of shipboard duty and shore assignments, a broader appeal than the sea-only image many people associated with the Navy. Printed in color between 1914 and 1918, it reflects the surge in enlistment that accompanied American entry into World War I in 1917, when the Marines expanded rapidly to meet wartime needs.
| Created / published | [between 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Marines--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,752 × 4,657 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221275 |
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