This World War I recruiting poster is one of my favorite posters in the Navy Art collection. (The original is actually an oil painting by James Montgomery Flagg.) Nowadays the military tends to target its recruiting efforts towards aimless high school students who aren't sure what they want to do with their lives. But during wartime the military needed everyone they could get, hence this poster targeted towards "intellectuals." Seeing the changing styles in poster art and recruiting tactics over time is really fascinating to me.
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