Is your home worth fighting for? It will be too late to fight when the enemy is at your door, so join to-day / Hely's Limited, Litho., Dublin. – Antique Print
![Is your home worth fighting for? It will be too late to fight when the enemy is at your door, so join to-day / Hely's Limited, Litho., Dublin., [S.l. : s.n., 1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fb8eba482721-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 Is your home worth fighting for? It will be too late to fight when the enemy is at your door, so join to-day / Hely's Limited, Litho., Dublin. 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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Is your home worth fighting for? It will be too late to fight when the enemy is at your door, so join to-day / Hely's Limited, Litho., Dublin.
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Rather than showing the trenches, this color chromolithograph brings the war to the family hearth, with a German soldier shown at the door. Printed by Hely's Limited of Dublin, probably in 1915, it asks whether one's home is worth fighting for and urges men to enlist before "the enemy is at your door." The poster reflects the recruiting drives of that year, when British and Irish authorities sought volunteers for the army. Its focus on defending families and homeland was a common appeal in the period's recruiting posters.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n., 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Irish 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. P 661. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Ireland--1910-1920. Civil defense--Ireland--1910-1920. Soldiers--German--Ireland--1910-1920. Families--Ireland--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,023 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 567_Is_your_home_worth_figh_1915 |
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