National service. National security. No shirking. Enrol to-day. Forms at all post offices and national service offices – Historic Reproduction
![National service. National security. No shirking. Enrol to-day. Forms at all post offices and national service offices, [S.l. : s.n., 1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d9/d9914c9effd2-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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A window into the past: National service. National security. No shirking. Enrol to-day. Forms at all post offices and national service offices, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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National service. National security. No shirking. Enrol to-day. Forms at all post offices and national service offices
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This text-only poster has no illustration. It relies on its blunt slogans, "No shirking" and "Enrol to-day," and on the emblem of the National Service Industrial Army to make its appeal. By 1917 Britain's war effort depended on civilian labor in factories, mines and farms as well as on soldiers at the front, and the government used campaigns like this one to recruit workers for essential industry. The poster's message is that enrolling was a national duty. Its directions to collect forms at post offices and national service offices show how ordinary local institutions were used to register the workforce.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n., 1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 75 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. Poster is text only, with emblem of the National Service Industrial Army, 1917. Series B.1. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221261 |
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