Come men! Come! Fight for justice! ... Emulate the example of Bahamians who have gone before and are upholding the honour of our colony / The Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica. – Vintage Wall Art
![Come men! Come! Fight for justice! ... Emulate the example of Bahamians who have gone before and are upholding the honour of our colony / The Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica., [S.l. : s.n., 1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa0ea822ce9e-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: Come men! Come! Fight for justice! ... Emulate the example of Bahamians who have gone before and are upholding the honour of our colony / The Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Come men! Come! Fight for justice! ... Emulate the example of Bahamians who have gone before and are upholding the honour of our colony / The Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica.
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Its appeal opens with a direct cry, "Come men! Come!", and urges men in the colony to fight for justice by following Bahamians who had already enlisted and were upholding the honor of their homeland. The Gleaner Company, the Kingston newspaper and printing house, produced the sheet, which reflects the wartime effort to draw recruits from across the British West Indies into the Army. That effort contributed to the formation of the West Indies Regiment in 1915. The halftone reproduction and bold lettering were typical of the mass-printed recruiting posters that circulated in the colonies during the early years of the First World War.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n., 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone ; 93 x 62 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | Great Britain.--Army--Recruiting & enlistment--Jamaica--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,071 × 5,000 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1038_Come_men_Come_Fight_for_1915 |
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