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IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT JOIN THE MARINES. 1915

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.
40 1/2 x 30 inches

  • Condition: Condition B+: overpainting, restoration and repaired tears in margins and image.

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