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NavSource Online: US Navy Recruiting Posters

World War I Posters


P040 Poster Name - Help Deliver The Goods. Do It Now
Call Number - POS - US .P38, no. 5 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-3175 (color film copy transparency)
Summary - Sailor pulling cable over hook, large ammunition shells attached to cable.
Medium - 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.
Created/Published - N.Y. : American Lithographic Co., [1918] Paus, Herbert Andrew, 1880-1946, artist. Promotional goal: U.S. F2.J7. 1918(?).
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03175
P042 Poster Name - I'm Doing My Duty Are You? Your Navy Needs You This Minute
Call Number - POS - WWI - US, no. 133 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-7790 (color film copy transparency)
Summary - U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing a sailor holding a rifle.
Medium - 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.
Created/Published - Boston, Mass. : Smith & Porter Press, [between 1914 and 1918] Jordan, Clinton, artist. Issued by City of Boston Committee on Public Safety.
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3g07790
P043 Poster Name - Pull Together Men - The Navy Needs Us
Call Number - POS - WWI - US, no. 448 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-6269 (color film copy transparency)
Summary - Poster showing sailors rowing a boat.
Medium - 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 56 x 36 cm.
Created/Published - Boston : Smith & Porter Press, [1917] Boomhower, Paul R., artist. Issued by City of Boston Committee on Public Safety. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3g06269
P047 Poster Name - America Calls - Enlist In The Navy
Call Number - POS - US .L494, no. 8 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-1341 (color film copy transparency)
Summary - Poster showing Liberty shaking the hand of a sailor.
Medium - 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 104 x 71 cm.
Created/Published - [1917] Leyendecker, J. C. (Joseph Christian), 1874-1951, artist.
Notes - The U.S. Navy Publicity Bureau gratefully acknowledges its indebtedness to Mr. J.C. Leyendecker for this design and to the Beck Engraving Co. for the reproduction.
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3b52846
P054 Poster Name - These Men Have Come Across - - They Are At The Front Now. Join Them--Enlist In The Navy / F.X. Leyendecker.
Call Number - POS - US .L493, no. 2 (B size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-3185 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-99312 (b&w film copy neg.)
Summary - Poster showing sailors loading gun.
Medium - 1 photomechanical print (poster) : color.
Created/Published - [1918?] Leyendecker, Frank X., 1877-1924, artist. Promotional goal: U.S. J26. 1918?
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03185
P055 Poster Name - The Navy Needs You! Don't Read American History - Make It!
Call Number - POS - WWI - US, no. 361 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-8890 (color film copy transparency)
Summary - Poster showing a sailor taking a man in a suit by the shoulder, and gesturing toward battle ships at sea and a figure of Liberty waving the American flag.
Medium - 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 102 x 70 cm.
Created/Published - [1917] Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960, artist.
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3g08890
P057 Poster Name - Enlist In The Navy - Follow The Boys In Blue For Home And Country / G. Wright.
Call Number - POS - WWI - US, no. 100 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-7757 (color film copy transparency)
Summary - U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing civilian men in queue receiving their navy gear and boarding a battleship.
Medium - 1 photomechanical print (poster) : offset, color.
Created/Published - New York : U.S. Navy Publicity Bureau, [between 1914 and 1918] (N.Y. : colorplates by the Gill Engraving Co. Wright, George Hand, 1872-1951, artist.
Notes - Painted and presented to the U.S. Navy by George Wright.
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3g07757
P058 Poster Name - Gee!! I Wish I Were A Man, I'd Join The Navy - Be A Man And Do Pt - United States Navy recruiting station / Howard Chandler Christy 1917.
Call Number - POS - US .C58, no. 10 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-1124 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-42150 (b&w film copy neg.)
Summary - Poster showing a young woman in a Navy uniform.
Medium - 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 105 x 68 cm.
Created/Published -1917 - Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952, artist.
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3b52630
P059 Poster Name - The Navy Put 'Em Across - The Service For Travel and Training, Ages 17 to 35 / H. Reuterdahl U.S.Navy 1918.
Call Number - POS - US .R48, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
Reproduction Number - LC-USZC4-9845 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC2-105 (color film copy slide)
Summary - Poster showing a sailor wading as he carries a soldier on his shoulder.
Medium - 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 118 x 74 cm.
Created/Published - [S.l.] : Press U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau, [19]18. Reuterdahl, Henry, 1871-1925, artist.
Notes - Apply Navy Recruiting Station [blank]. Title from item.
Repository - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID - (color film copy transparency) cph 3g09845

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