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U.S. Navy : "Here he is, sir." We need him and you too! Navy recruiting station

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Title: U.S. Navy : "Here he is, sir." We need him and you too! Navy recruiting station
Creator: Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co., printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
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 Uncle Sam shaking a woman's hand as her son holds her other hand in a scene regarding her son's enlistment; the poster encourages enlistment in 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. "Latham Litho & Ptg. Co. Brooklyn. N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Drawn by Charles Dana Gibson"--text, bottom right of image. "Courtesy of Life"--text, bottom left of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 104.3 x 70.96 cm (41 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Identifier: priWWI_L_58
414742
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23591
Subject: Advertising--Recruiting and enlistment
Mothers & children--Pictorial works
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works
World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--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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