Fight for her. Come with the Irish Canadian Rangers Overseas Battalion Montreal / Hal Ross Perrigard after Whistler. – Historic Reproduction
(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: Fight for her. Come with the Irish Canadian Rangers Overseas Battalion Montreal / Hal Ross Perrigard after Whistler., 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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Fight for her. Come with the Irish Canadian Rangers Overseas Battalion Montreal / Hal Ross Perrigard after Whistler.
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Few recruiting posters borrow from high art as openly as this one, which reworks the seated, profile composition of James McNeill Whistler's painting of his mother. Printed in Toronto around 1915 for the Irish Canadian Rangers, an overseas battalion raised in Montreal, it turns that quiet portrait of family devotion into an appeal to men to enlist. Canada relied on voluntary enlistment until conscription in 1917, and posters like this one tied the war effort to home, duty and the women left behind. The title, *Fight for her*, makes the message explicit.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 90 x 57 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. Lt. Col. H. J. Trihey O.C. · Whistler James McNeill 1834-1903. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,561 × 5,724 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1360_Fight_for_her_Come_with_1915 |
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