Extra - your country needs you in the U.S. Navy at once – Antique Print
![Extra - your country needs you in the U.S. Navy at once, N.Y. : J.H. Tooker Print Co., [between 1914 and 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f6/f693c3abb5b5-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 vintage poster of Extra - your country needs you in the U.S. Navy at once brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Extra - your country needs you in the U.S. Navy at once
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Few World War I recruiting posters addressed women directly, which sets this one apart. Its newspaper-style "Extra" headline and its call for women to apply at recruiting stations reflect a Navy that, in 1917, opened its Naval Reserve to women for clerical and communications work, freeing men for sea duty. Those women came to be called Yeomanettes, and the poster shows how the service sought to present naval work as patriotic and respectable for women. Printed by J.H. Tooker Print Co. in New York, it is a useful record of how wartime recruiting broadened its appeal.
| Created / published | N.Y. : J.H. Tooker Print Co., [between 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster caption continues: Apply at recruiting stations ; Women's Auxiliary Naval recruiting. |
| Subjects | United States.--Naval Reserve.--Women's Reserve--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Women--Military service--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,732 × 4,647 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221273 |
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