Join the Air Service Learn - earn. – Historic Print
![Join the Air Service Learn - earn., Boston : Forbes, [between 1917 and 1920] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/af/af4e41d5426e-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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The chromolithograph "Join the Air Service Learn - earn" is a recruiting poster that asked young men to see military aviation as both a patriotic duty and a trade worth learning. Printed by Forbes in Boston sometime between 1917 and 1920, it belongs to the wave of American war posters produced after the country entered the First World War in April 1917. The Army Air Service was expanding rapidly then, needing mechanics, pilots and support staff, and posters like this one played on the promise of practical training as much as adventure. The pairing of "Learn" and "earn" in the title is worth noticing, since it presents enlistment as a path to both skills and wages.
| Created / published | Boston : Forbes, [between 1917 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Air Service--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Air operations--American. Aircraft--1910-1920. Emblems--1910-1920. Military education--1910-1920. Men--Employment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,786 × 4,701 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221083 |
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