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These New Yorkers volunteered last week--Is your name on this list?

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These New Yorkers volunteered last week--Is your name on this list?

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Poster showing news photographs of the war effort by the Official British Press Bureau, lists of hundreds of recent American volunteers, and addresses of recruiting stations.
Photographs are captioned: Spring time in the North Sea; Somewhere in France; These men volunteered; Looking through the periscope; A clean hit; Men, men, and more men.
The Mayor's Committee on National Defense, The Recruiting Committee, 50 East 42nd Street, New York.
Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

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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01/01/1917
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