The new education Theres the world before you young man! Do you want to see it? Learn a trade and live a strong healthy life? If so enlist and be happy - you cant beat this! / Winsor McCay. – 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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Step back in time with The new education Theres the world before you young man! Do you want to see it? Learn a trade and live a strong healthy life? If so enlist and be happy - you cant beat this! / Winsor McCay., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The new education Theres the world before you young man! Do you want to see it? Learn a trade and live a strong healthy life? If so enlist and be happy - you cant beat this! / Winsor McCay.
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Addressed directly to a young man, this 1918 poster promises him a trade and a strong, healthy life if he enlists, a pitch that stresses future prospects as much as duty. Winsor McCay, best known as the creator of the *Little Nemo* comic strip, drew it for the *New York American*, a Hearst newspaper, as part of a numbered recruiting series. The United States had entered the First World War in 1917, and the Army needed volunteers, so posters like this one tried to make military service look like a route to skills and opportunity. Uncle Sam, a familiar national figure, appears among its subjects.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 36 x 28 cm. |
| Notes | Courtesy New York American. Recruiting series no. 6. No. 3-6993. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | United States. Army--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. Employment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,046 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 792_The_new_education_There_1918 |
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