No days are bookless days! Poughkeepsie asks you to do your part and part with your books for our boys / F. R. Booth 1918. – Historic Print
(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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This rare vintage poster captures No days are bookless days! Poughkeepsie asks you to do your part and part with your books for our boys / F. R. Booth 1918. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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No days are bookless days! Poughkeepsie asks you to do your part and part with your books for our boys / F. R. Booth 1918.
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This 1918 lithograph is a local appeal from Poughkeepsie, New York, urging residents to give up books so that American servicemen would have reading material. Its slogan, "No days are bookless days," asks townspeople to make a small personal sacrifice for "our boys" overseas. During the First World War, libraries and civic groups ran book drives to stock camp libraries and troop ships, since soldiers often had little to read during long stretches of training and waiting. The poster, signed by F. R. Booth, shows how home-front campaigns of the period used everyday civic pride to recruit participation.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 71 x 52 cm. |
| Genre | Saluting 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Book drives--1910-1920. War work--1910-1920. Libraries--1910-1920. Books--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,791 × 4,692 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 343_No_days_are_bookless_da_1918 |
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