Here is opportunity See the world, serve your country, save your money. – Vintage Print
![Here is opportunity See the world, serve your country, save your money., Little Rock, Ark. : Joplin-Pugh Advertising Agency, [between 1914 and 1918] (Little Rock, Ark. : Lenon Engraving Co. ; Pugh Printing Co.) — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/eb/eb4a25a39d5c-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Here is opportunity See the world, serve your country, save your money.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Promising travel to Japan, India, France and South America, this color lithograph from Little Rock recruits young men to the Navy with the promise of skills and savings. Printed by the Joplin-Pugh Advertising Agency sometime between 1914 and 1918, it belongs to a wave of American war posters that linked military service to self-improvement. Its caption urges readers to become self-reliant, a master tradesman or mechanic, and warns them not to wait, since this is their real chance. The poster sells the Navy less as combat than as a route to independence and a trade, an appeal aimed at working men during the First World War.
| Created / published | Little Rock, Ark. : Joplin-Pugh Advertising Agency, [between 1914 and 1918] (Little Rock, Ark. : Lenon Engraving Co. ; Pugh Printing Co.) |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster caption continues: Visit Japan - India - France - Asia - England - South America - Europe ; Important - read this: Become a self-reliant, capable man- ; Become an independent man- ; Become a master tradesman or mechanic- ; Don't wait, for this is your real chance .... |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Military training--1910-1920. Men--Education--1910-1920. Men--Employment--1910-1920. Vocational education--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,667 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221280 |
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