"Urgent! The president has issued an urgent call for 70,000 recruits to complete the new regiments of infantry & field artillery, regular Army"

Title

"Urgent! The president has issued an urgent call for 70,000 recruits to complete the new regiments of infantry & field artillery, regular Army"

Subject

Recruitment Poster for World War I

Description

U.S. Army recruiting poster showing men in civilian dress entering a recruiting office and exiting in military uniform, also gives locations of main recruiting station, sub-stations, and auxiliary stations, and notes that "railroad fare paid from sub-stations to main recruiting stations."

Source

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Publisher

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Storytelling, Fall 2014

Date

Circa 1918

Contributor

Suzanne Irvin

Format

JPG

Type

Poster

Original Format

print (poster); lithograph, color

Files

Army-Recruiting-Poster-LC-.jpg


Citation

“"Urgent! The president has issued an urgent call for 70,000 recruits to complete the new regiments of infantry & field artillery, regular Army",” Goin' North, accessed September 20, 2024, https://goinnorth.org/items/show/273.