Visual Materials

America calls enlist in the navy

Description: Prints, advertising; Image of Lady Liberty shaking the hand of a Navy serviceman in sailor's uniform in a circular frame; the seaman hold a gun with bayonet in his other hand; the letters "U.S.N." are printed at the figures' eye-level; the poster encourages enlistment in the United States Navy during World War I.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1917
Call number: priWWI_L_51
Provenance: Gift of Charles L. Heartwell, 1938.; Gift of Elizabeth Norris, June 2014.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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

Visual Materials

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.

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The empire needs men! The overseas states : all answer the call. Helped by the young lions the old lion defies his foes. Enlist now

Visual Materials

Prints, advertising; Image of a large male lion standing on a rocky outcropping surrounded by several younger lions; the poster encourages enlistment in the British armed forces during World War I.

priWWI_S_91

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Official correspondence, copies

Manuscripts

Copies and extracts from letter books: Officers' Letters; Letters to Officers of Ships of War; Letters of the Brazil Squadron; Papers Relating to the Brazil Squadron, and others, 1853-1884. Copies concern a controversy relating to the sue of the Episcopal liturgy by the Navy; in the hand of Captain Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain, U.S.N.

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Enlist : on which side of the window are you?

Visual Materials

Prints, advertising; Image of a civilian man wearing a suit and bow tie in a darkened room looking out a window at ranks of servicemen in military uniform marching past; a large American flag waves above the troops; the poster encourages patriotism and enlistment and was used as an United States Army recruitment poster during World War I.

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Joan of Arc saved France: women of America save your country buy war savings stamps

Visual Materials

Prints, advertising; Image of woman in chain mail and plate armor (Joan of Arc) with a sword raised in one hand; the poster encourages women to support their country by buying United States war savings stamps during World War I.

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Louis M. Goldsborough Flag Officer U.S. Navy

Visual Materials

Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union Navy Flag Officer Louis M. Goldsborough (later promoted to admiral) standing on a ship deck in military uniform with hat in outstretched left hand and right hand resting on the pommel of the sword at his hip.

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America calls enlist in the navy

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