Wake up--New Yorkers! Your country needs you in the navy to help make the world safe! Enlist today – Vintage Wall Art
![Wake up--New Yorkers! Your country needs you in the navy to help make the world safe! Enlist today, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b2/b28ab0ede339-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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This vintage poster of Wake up--New Yorkers! Your country needs you in the navy to help make the world safe! Enlist today brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Wake up--New Yorkers! Your country needs you in the navy to help make the world safe! Enlist today
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Unlike many recruiting posters of its time, this one names two specific offices where New Yorkers could enlist: 34 East 23rd Street in Manhattan and 115 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Dated to about 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, this text-only color lithograph opens with the blunt call "Wake up--New Yorkers!" and presents naval service as a civic duty. The Navy relied on posters like this one in the war's early months to fill its ranks quickly, and placing the addresses on the page made enlistment feel close to home.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 75 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Text continues: Apply 34 E. 23d St., New York; 115 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn. Poster is text only. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--New York (State)--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,010 × 4,939 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222398 |
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