PBA Galleries

Color poster. On sheet 53x64.5 cm (20¾x25½").

United States Navy First World War recruitment poster featuring a long queue of sailors in blue uniforms waiting to board a naval warship with one sailor in the right foreground gesturing to a diverse group of men in civilian clothes an invitation to join them. The flag of the United States is visible in the top right. The image takes up the center with the main title printed in red ink beneath and the subtitle superimposed in black ink over the image in the upper left. Signed by the artist in the plate, with "Painted for and presented to the U.S. Navy by George Wright" at lower left below image; "Colorplates by The Gill Engraving Co. N.Y." Rubberstamp in lower margin, "Navy Recruitment Station Post Office Bldg. Colo. Springs" - this is misstamped so the P in Post is out of place, and it is overall faint.