Turn to the right! Join the U.S. Navy, your first line of defense / Carey Print N.Y.. – Antique Wall Art
![Turn to the right! Join the U.S. Navy, your first line of defense / Carey Print N.Y.., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e5/e5a3fc163839-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 rare vintage poster captures Turn to the right! Join the U.S. Navy, your first line of defense / Carey Print N.Y.. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Turn to the right! Join the U.S. Navy, your first line of defense / Carey Print N.Y..
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Rather than a straightforward appeal, this poster opens with a puzzle. Its rebus-style design uses eyes as a visual pun on the command "Turn to the right!", so the viewer has to work out the message before reaching the pitch. Printed in New York in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it bears a stamp from the U.S. Navy recruiting station at 225 West 42nd Street, which shows how such posters were distributed locally. The Navy promoted itself as the nation's "first line of defense," a slogan aimed at a country newly at war and in need of volunteers.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 101 x 72 cm. |
| Genre | Rebuses American 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Stamped: U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 225 W. 42nd St., N.Y.C. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Eyes--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,003 × 4,947 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222396 |
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