Depth bombs deal death to U-boats / Press of Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York. – Antique Wall Art
![Depth bombs deal death to U-boats / Press of Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York., [between 1917 and 1918)] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c6/c692a69e9660-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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A window into the past: Depth bombs deal death to U-boats / Press of Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Depth bombs deal death to U-boats / Press of Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York.
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This halftone poster, printed by the Navy Recruiting Bureau in New York, puts the depth charge at the center of its appeal: a weapon that attacked submarines below the surface. It dates from roughly 1917 to 1918, after the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, when German U-boats were sinking merchant ships in the Atlantic and the Navy needed large numbers of enlisted men for destroyers and escort vessels. Recruiting posters of this era used dramatic images of naval action to draw young men into service. The poster also appeared in a scrapbook titled "What the Navy is doing," which shows how such images were gathered to document the wartime service.
| Created / published | [between 1917 and 1918)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | War posters 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Illus. in scrapbook: What the Navy is doing, illus. 2. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--American. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment. Submarine warfare--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,706 × 3,766 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221090 |
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