Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex. – Vintage Print
![Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex., London : published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c6/c6b71b7f4912-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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Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex.
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Set in plain black lettering with no illustration, this poster relies entirely on its words: "Remember the Lusitania ... Enlist to-day." The Cunard liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Irish coast on 7 May 1915, and about 1,198 people died, including 128 Americans. The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee used that outrage to press men toward the colors, linking public anger directly to a call to enlist. Printed by David Allen & Sons in Harrow, it is one of many wartime posters that turned a single disaster into recruiting pressure.
| Created / published | London : published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 153 x 101 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster is text only. Poster no. 91. 5M - 5/15. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Lusitania (Steamship)--Disasters. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,027 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224559 |
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