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HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! JOIN THE MARINES. 1915.
40x29 1/2 inches.
Condition B+: repaired tear through margin affecting image; minor creases and stains in image. Paper.
An early sexy, taunting, challenging, and daring recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered the war, which played upon "the confusion of genders [that] provided posters with provocative images like this... whose purpose is the seduction of men into service" (Paret p.64). Rawls p. 249, Paret 89, Theofiles 66, Borkan p. 39, American 64.
Condition B+: repaired tear through margin affecting image; minor creases and stains in image. Paper.
An early sexy, taunting, challenging, and daring recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered the war, which played upon "the confusion of genders [that] provided posters with provocative images like this... whose purpose is the seduction of men into service" (Paret p.64). Rawls p. 249, Paret 89, Theofiles 66, Borkan p. 39, American 64.
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