Have your answers ready State military-June 11 to 16. – Vintage Print
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(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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Have your answers ready State military-June 11 to 16. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Uncle Sam, the national personification of the government, appears in this 1917 color lithograph, which asks readers to have their answers ready for a state military census in mid-June. The poster is part of the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection and reflects the pressure on the United States as it entered the First World War that spring. Congress had passed the Selective Service Act in May 1917, and the registration that followed in early June brought millions of men into the new national system. Posters like this one carried the government's message into everyday life, preparing citizens for the paperwork that would shape the army's ranks.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 90 x 62 cm. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Military life--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. Census--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,610 × 4,467 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221820 |
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