The first line of defense needs you - enlist in the Navy / H. Shirer. – Antique Wall Art
![The first line of defense needs you - enlist in the Navy / H. Shirer., [between 1914 and 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/af/af7f8561130e-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 first line of defense needs you - enlist in the Navy / H. Shirer. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The first line of defense needs you - enlist in the Navy / H. Shirer.
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The poster's slogan, "The first line of defense needs you," casts the Navy as the nation's front guard, and it was issued locally by the City of Boston Committee on Public Safety rather than by the federal government. Its artist, H. Shirer, is credited on the design, and the record dates it only to the years between 1914 and 1918, a span that covers both the years before the United States entered the war and the period after it joined in April 1917. Wartime posters like this one were a major tool for recruiting, and the Navy used them heavily to fill its ranks as its role in the Atlantic grew.
| Created / published | [between 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Issued by City of Boston Committee on Public Safety. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,706 × 3,776 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221259 |
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