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Poster showing soldiers rushing to position at antiaircraft guns in an English town.
Top left: News Photo Poster No. 10, issued for Maine Committee on Public Safety, captioned "The soldiers hustling when the call comes, 'All hands to the guns, here comes an aeroplane.'" Scene of soldiers in England running to their stations; text promotes the domestic war effort, including "Inform the ignorant report the disloyal."
Text continues: Carry the message. What are you doing to put every person behind America's war? Remember it is your duty to inform the ignorant - report the disloyal.
Caption: The soldiers hustling when the call comes, "All hands to the guns, here comes an aeroplane." Photograph shows the men in an English town running to their posts to operate the long ranged guns which are used to bring down the enemies (sic) aeroplanes when they are flying within range. Great success has attended these efforts in destroying balloons and aeroplanes.
News Photo Poster No. 10, issued for Maine Committee on Public Safety, Blaine Mansion, Augusta, Maine.
Mounted with other News Photo Posters.
Following the outbreak of war in 1914, the conflict rapidly grew towards ‘Total War‘. During the early years of the war, poster design and distribution in Britain was organized by the War Propaganda Bureau run out of Wellington House in London. Many of the designs and content of the posters produced during this period were decided internally without oversight from the British Parliament. From 1916 onward, the production of posters and propaganda was centralized through the British Government and, by 1918, were run primarily by the British Ministry for Information. All posters in this collection are printable in high definition.
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