If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy. – Antique 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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A window into the past: If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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If you want to fight! Join the Marines / Howard Chandler Christy.
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Howard Chandler Christy, best known for his idealized American women, turned that style to recruiting with this 1915 color poster, which pairs a glamorous female figure with the blunt line "If you want to fight! Join the Marines." The image was issued while the United States was still neutral, as war raged in Europe, and the Marine Corps was working to expand its ranks. Christy's posters of this kind drew on the public's fascination with his women to catch the eye of passersby, and posters like this one were a common sight in post offices and recruiting stations during the 1910s.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J26. 1915. |
| Subjects | United States.--Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Women--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,144 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217360 |
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