Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at once / by courtesy of the New York Tribune, with apologies to Briggs. – Antique Print
![Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at once / by courtesy of the New York Tribune, with apologies to Briggs., [1918]. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c8e5a69df4aa-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at once / by courtesy of the New York Tribune, with apologies to Briggs.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at once / by courtesy of the New York Tribune, with apologies to Briggs.
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Its title does the work: a Navy recruiting poster that promises a job to anyone weary of job hunting, offered "by courtesy of the New York Tribune" with "apologies to Briggs." The nod is to Clare Briggs, the cartoonist whose comic panels of everyday American life ran in the Tribune, and the poster borrows his light, domestic humor to make its pitch. Dated 1918, it comes from the last year of American involvement in World War I, when the Navy competed with the army and private employers for men and used familiar newspaper styles to reach ordinary readers.
| Created / published | [1918]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : offset, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Military personnel--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,742 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221242 |
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