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13 striking vintage wartime posters that play on our emotions using mercy, honor, and 'gold and glory'
13 striking vintage wartime posters that play on our emotions using mercy, honor, and 'gold and glory'
Aug 4, 2017, 23:21 IST
And a benevolent US Army nurse ministers to a soldier recover in this 1945 work, which seeks to recruit women for a "glorious service of mercy."
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Commercial photographer and former Harpers Bazaar magazine art director Ruzzie Green designed this 1943 poster, which sought to encourage women to join the Army Nurse Corps.
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The Department of Commerce's National Inventors Council sought to encourage wartime innovation with this 1942 poster.
Not all posters spurred individuals to enlist. Published around 1942, this poster published by a lobbying group of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association features Uncle Sam encouraging wartime lumber production.
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This WWI era poster illustrates US Marines firing artillery from a ship in the frenzy of battle to encourage people to enlist at a New York City recruiting office.
Published around 1917, this urgent poster tells women their country needs them to support the US Navy — through clerical work.
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This 1917 Women's Land Army poster depicting a dutiful woman doing farm chores was published in London to encourage women to work the land in place of men who had gone to serve in WWI.
Lady Liberty stands tall in this 1917 war poster, which encouraged Brooklynites to serve in a branch of the US military.
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This 1917 poster by popular wartime illustrator Howard Chandler Christy encourages US citizens to support the war effort by enlisting or purchasing bonds.
The Red Cross published this romantic 1917 WWI poster, which references Michaelangelo's Pieta.
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This 1917 World War I poster appealed to national pride to recruit British ex-pats living in New York.
This 1920 poster dangles "gold and glory," along with famed Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, to encourage US citizens to travel south and fight in the Mexican Revolution.
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Charles Buckles Falls illustrated this WWI recruiting poster, which depicts the commanding gaze of a beckoning sergeant, for the US Marines.