Give the world the once over in the United States Navy Apply at Navy Recruiting Station / James H. Daugherty Press Navy Recruiting Bureau N.Y. – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Give the world the once over in the United States Navy Apply at Navy Recruiting Station / James H. Daugherty Press Navy Recruiting Bureau N.Y. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Give the world the once over in the United States Navy Apply at Navy Recruiting Station / James H. Daugherty Press Navy Recruiting Bureau N.Y.
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Here the Navy sells travel rather than battle. The slogan "Give the world the once over" sits beside a scene captioned India, where sailors appear as sightseers. Illustrator James H. Daugherty produced the design for the Navy Recruiting Bureau in New York in 1919, the year after the armistice, when the service was still recruiting. Wartime posters had stressed duty and sacrifice, while this one offers adventure and foreign ports to young men who might never have left home. The color lithograph shows how the recruiting pitch changed once the fighting ended.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 107 x 71 cm. |
| Notes | Caption: India. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | United States Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Sailors--India--1910-1920. Sightseers--India--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,766 × 4,643 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1387_Give_the_world_the_once_1919 |
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