Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 & 3 Burgon Street, Carter Lane, London, E.C. – Vintage Photo Print
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(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: Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 & 3 Burgon Street, Carter Lane, London, E.C., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 & 3 Burgon Street, Carter Lane, London, E.C.
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This 1914 recruiting poster, issued under the name of the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, carries the call "Britons! Your country needs you," and its catalog record lists maps among its subjects, so the design evidently draws on a map to make its appeal. Early in the war, Britain relied on volunteers, and posters like this one, printed as color lithographs by the London firm Saunders & Cullingham, were pasted across towns to urge men to enlist. The poster is one of a numbered series, which suggests the committee produced many designs with a shared message aimed at a broad civilian public.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1914] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster no. 23. Wt. 8936. 50M. 1632/12/14. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--England--1910-1920. Maps--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,966 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1267_Britons_Your_country_ne_1914 |
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