First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call.
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First Call" borrows the language of a bugle signal, and the poster turns that urgency into a direct, personal appeal to join the Navy right away. It dates from 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, and it belongs to a wave of recruiting art that followed the Army's famous Uncle Sam poster in using a pointed, first-person address to the viewer. The Navy was growing quickly to escort troop convoys and patrol the Atlantic, so posters like this carried real recruiting weight. Notice how the wording frames enlistment as a matter of immediate duty rather than a distant commitment.
| Created / published | c1917. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 28 x 51.5 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Navy recruiting stations: 34 East 23rd Street, New York; 115 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn. Copyright by Leslie-Judge Co. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. Men--Employment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,413 × 3,537 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221763 |
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