Men wanted for the army / Michael P. Whelan. – Vintage Print
![Men wanted for the army / Michael P. Whelan., [between 1910 and 1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fb2507085302-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 Men wanted for the army / Michael P. Whelan. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Men wanted for the army / Michael P. Whelan.
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This chromolithograph, printed in 1910 and marked Form No. 401 under the Adjutant General's Office, is a recruiting poster that puts artillery at the center of its appeal. It dates from the years before the United States entered the First World War, when the regular army was small and recruiting was a steady peacetime effort, not the mass mobilization of 1917 and 1918 that the gallery's subject headings point to. The record credits Michael P. Whelan with the design but also lists Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Herbert Macnair as artists, an attribution worth verifying against other sources.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Form no. 401. A.G.O. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. Military personnel--1910-1920. Artillery (Weaponry)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,801 × 4,701 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221059 |
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