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Gee!! I wish I were a man I'd join the Navy : be a man and do it United States Navy recruiting station

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Title: Gee!! I wish I were a man I'd join the Navy : be a man and do it United States Navy recruiting station
Creator: Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Prints, advertising; Image of a young woman wearing a Navy uniform and white sailor cap, with her collar blowing up in the wind, on a United States Navy recruitment poster during World War I.
Date based on year in artist's signature. "Howard Chandler Christy, 1917"--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 103.98 x 68.58 cm (40 15/16 x 27 in.)
Identifier: priWWI_L_38
414743
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23592
Subject: Advertising--Recruiting and enlistment
Cross dressing--Pictorial works
Sailors--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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