New Yorkers wake up!! Your country needs you in the Navy to help make the world safe--Enlist to-day – Antique Print
![New Yorkers wake up!! Your country needs you in the Navy to help make the world safe--Enlist to-day, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c7/c714bb426791-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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Step back in time with New Yorkers wake up!! Your country needs you in the Navy to help make the world safe--Enlist to-day, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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New Yorkers wake up!! Your country needs you in the Navy to help make the world safe--Enlist to-day
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Addressed directly to "New Yorkers," this text-only lithograph names two local recruiting offices, one on East 23rd Street in Manhattan and one on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Dated 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it urges men to enlist in the Navy to help make the world safe, a phrase that echoed President Woodrow Wilson's language about the war. Recruiting posters like this one relied on bold lettering and blunt calls to action, since they were pasted on storefronts and public walls to reach men going about their daily routines.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 87 x 137 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Apply: 34 East 23d St., N.Y. - 115 Flatbush Ave., B'klyn. Poster is text only. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Men--Employment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,449 × 3,582 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221770 |
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