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Title
You, wireless fans, help the navy get the Hun submarine
Creator
Falls, C. B. (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960, artist
U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau, printer
Date Created and/or Issued
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
Prints, advertising; Image of a radio operator wearing headphones silhouetted against a starry sky raising one fist on a recruitment poster for the United States Navy during World War I.
Date supplied by cataloger based on general history of war; the United States entered the war in April 1917. "Printed by U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau"--text, bottom right margin. "Drawn by C.B. Falls"--text, bottom left margin. "1000 radio men wanted in the / Navy and the Naval Reserve / apply at 280 Broadway or any recruiting station"--text, center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 111.92 x 71.12 cm (44 1/16 x 28 in.)
Identifier
priWWI_L_64
414741
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23590
Subject
Advertising--Recruiting and enlistment
Radio, Military--Pictorial works
World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States
United States. Navy
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
War posters--American--1910-1920. (gmgpc)
Source
Huntington Collection
World War I
Your Country Calls
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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