Your opportunity - Army ordnance schools – Vintage 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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This 1919 recruiting poster, Ordnance Recruiting Poster No. 4, sets six small photographs around a central appeal to young men to join the Army's Ordnance Department. The captions show what the training covered: a railway gun, a tractor-mounted howitzer, a class in gasoline engines, machine gun instruction, a big tractor in operation, and an anti-aircraft gun being sighted. Issued the same year the war ended, the poster was meant to draw recruits toward technical work in the Army's expanding mechanized and artillery branches. It reflects a moment when the Army was looking to keep skilled mechanics and engineers in uniform after 1918.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) ; 65 x 48 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster captions: A big railway gun ; A tractor-mounted howitzer ; Class in gasoline engines ; Machine gun instruction ; Operating a big tractor ; Sighting an anti-aircraft gun. Ordnance Recruiting Poster No. 4. A.G.O. No. 202 - July 21, 1919. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Ordnance Dept.--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Military education--1910-1920. Military vehicles--1910-1920. Artillery (Weaponry)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,781 × 4,696 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221070 |
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