Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve Overseas Division wants men ages 18 to 38. Seamen stokers. Join to-day – Historic 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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Step back in time with Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve Overseas Division wants men ages 18 to 38. Seamen stokers. Join to-day, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve Overseas Division wants men ages 18 to 38. Seamen stokers. Join to-day
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Few recruiting posters from 1915 name a specific naval reserve unit as plainly as this one, which calls for men aged 18 to 38 to join the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve's Overseas Division as seamen and stokers. The red pencil note giving 129 Commissioner Street West, probably the recruiting office's address, shows how such posters were used locally after they were printed. The lithograph's images of warships and gun turrets reflect the Royal Navy's wartime importance and the role Canadian volunteers were expected to play in it. Stokers, who fed the boilers that powered steam warships, were in steady demand throughout the war.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 71 x 107 cm. |
| Notes | Inscribed in red pencil: 129 Commissioner St. West (possibly address of recruiting office). Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. Warships--Canadian--1910-1920. Sailors--Canadian--1910-1920. Gun turrets--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 6,078 × 4,863 px · prints to 20 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1048_Royal_Naval_Canadian_Vo_1915 |
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