Urgent! The president has issued an urgent call for 70,000 recruits to complete the new regiments of infantry & field artillery, regular Army – Vintage Wall Art
![Urgent! The president has issued an urgent call for 70,000 recruits to complete the new regiments of infantry & field artillery, regular Army, [between 1917 and 1919] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d5/d5eeba17ba68-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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This vintage poster of Urgent! The president has issued an urgent call for 70,000 recruits to complete the new regiments of infantry & field artillery, regular Army brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Urgent! The president has issued an urgent call for 70,000 recruits to complete the new regiments of infantry & field artillery, regular Army
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This lithograph is a recruiting call from Pennsylvania rather than a federal one, and its text asks single men aged 18 to 40 who were not in war-essential jobs to join before June 30, with the state asked to supply 7,000 of the 70,000 men sought for new infantry and field artillery regiments of the regular Army. It was issued by the Committee of Public Safety for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from its Department of Military Service in Philadelphia. Posters like this appeared after the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, when the Army needed to expand quickly and states helped with recruitment alongside federal efforts.
| Created / published | [between 1917 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster caption continues: Single men - 18 to 40 - not engaged in occupations necessary to prosecution of the war are wanted before June 30 ; Pennsylvania must produce 7,000 real men at once. Issued(?) by: Committee of Public Safety for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Military Service, South Penn Square, Philadelphia. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,771 × 4,711 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221061 |
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