CALL TO DUTY: WORLD WAR POSTERS

CALL TO DUTY: WORLD WAR POSTERS Call to Duty: World War Posters is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania. All posters are courtesy of the Reading Public Museum. # Image Artist Title Dated Country Adoption Price 1 James Montgomery Flagg I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY 1917 American $2,500 2 Howard Chandler Christy GEE!! I WISH I WERE A MAN 1918 American $500 3 Howard Chandler Christy I WANT YOU for THE NAVY 1917 American $500 4 August William Hutaf TREAT 'EM ROUGH! 1917 American $500 1

5 E. V. Kealey (also E. J. Kealey or Kealy) WOMEN of BRITAIN SAY "GO!" 1915 English $500 6 Baron Low Everyone Shoud Do His Bit - Enlist Now 1915 European $500 7 attributed to Harry Lawrence Oakley What will y our answer be when your boy askes, "Father, what did you do to help when Britain fought for freedom in 1915?" 1915 English $500 8 Johnson, Riddle & Company Parliamentary Recruiting Committee A Happy New Year to our Gallant Soldiers c. 1915 English $500 2

9 Ellsworth Young Remember Belgium c. 1918 American $500 10 Josef Pierre Nuyttens Forget Me Not HELP SAVE THE BELGIAN BABIES 1917 American $500 11 Wladyslaw Theodor Benda Give or We Perish 1917 American $500 12 Ethel Franklin Betts Bains Lest We Perish c. 1917 American $500 3

13 Emile Antoine Verpilleux The Polish Victims Relief Fund 1915 English $500 14 Francis Luis Mora The Health of the Child is the Power of the Nation WWI propaganda poster 1918 American $500 15 Lawrence Beall Smith Don't let that shadow touch them : buy war bonds. 1942 American $500 16 Harriet Nadeau "Deliver us from evil" 1943 American $500 4

17 Glenn Grohe He's Watching You 1942 American $500 18 Ray Prohaska Careless talk got there first. 1944 American $500 19 Paul Albert Plaschke Tell it to the Marines, The SpIrit of Wake Island Against Overwhelming Odds 1941-1945 American $500 20 Allen Russell Saalburg --We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th! 1942 American $500 5

21 Bernard Perlin AVENGE December 7 1942 American $500 22 P. Kolada... remember me? I'm still fighting you! c. 1944 American $500 23 Howard Chandler Christy Fight or Buy Bonds 1917 American $2,500 24 Henry Raleigh Hun or Home? 1918 American $500 6

25 Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. NY Remember! The Flag Of Liberty Support It! 1917-1918 American $500 26 Z. P. Nikolaki Hello! This is Liberty Speaking 1918 American $500 27 Daniel Sayre Groesbeck "Shall We Be More Tender with Our Dollars Than with the Lives of Our Sons" 1917 American $500 28 Frederick Strothmann Beat back the HUN with LIBERTY BONDS 1918 American $500 7

29 William Haskell Coffin Joan of Arc Saved France 1918 American $500 30 Harry James Westerman Girls Do Your Duty c. 1917 - American $500 1918 31 John Scott Williams For Victory Buy More Bonds FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN 1918 American $500 8

34 Norman Rockwell Freedom of Want 1943 American $500 35 Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech 1943 American $2,500 36 Norman Rockwell Freedom of Worship 1943 American $2,500 9

37 Norman Rockwell Freedom from Fear 1943 American $2,500 38 Adolphe Dehn The Present with a Future...War Bonds 1942 American $500 39 Adolph Treidler Make Every Minute Count for Pershing c. 1918 American $500 40 United States Shipping Board On The Job For Victory 1917 American $500 10

41 Hibberd Van Buren Kline TEAMWORK WINS 1917 American $500 42 Howard Scott Pass the Ammunition 1943 American $500 43 Henry Koerner United we are Strong / United we will win 1943 American $2,500 44 Eric Aldwinckle Whatever Your Job May Be Fight 1940's Canadian $500 11

45 Roy Frederick Spreter TEACHING is war-work, too 1944 American $500 46 Wallace Morgan FEED a FIGHTER 1918 American $500 47 Charles Edward Chambers Food will win the war (poster in English will be inset in label) 1917 American $500 48 William Crawford Young Sir - don't waste while your wife saves Adopt the doctrine of the clean plate - do your share 1917 American $500 12

49 Albert Hendee This is what GOD gives us 1917 American $500 50 Francis Luis Mora Don't let up Keep On Saving Food 1918 American $500 51 Steele United States Food Administration Defeat the Kaiser and his U Boats 1917 American $500 52 William McKee The World Cry Food 1918 American $500 13

53 Herbert Andrew Paus Save Food 1917 American $500 54 Harvey Dunn They Are Giving All Will You Send Them Wheat? 1918 American $500 55 Carter Housh PRESERVE 1914-1918 American $500 56 U.S. School Garden Army, Bureau of Education, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C HELPING HOOVER IN OUR U.S. SCHOOL GARDEN 1919 American $500 14

57 Edward Penfield JOIN THE UNITED-STATES SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY ENLIST NOW 1917 American $500 58 James Montgomery Flagg Sow the seeds of Victory! 1918 American $2,500 59 Stevan Dohanos Fill It!...Help Harvest War Crops 1945 American $500 60 McClelland Barclay Save Your Cans, Help Pass the Ammunition 1943 American $500 15

61 Albert Dorne Me travel?... not this summer VACATION AT HOME 1945 American $500 62 Sidney H. Riesenberg CIVILIANS WHEN WE GO THROUGH THIS WE NEED ALL THE HELP AND COMFORT YOU CAN GIVE. 1918 American $500 63 Albert Herter His Home Over There 1918 American $500 64 Adolph Treidler For Every Fighter a Woman Worker 1918 American $500 16

65 Edward Penfield The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need 1917 American $500 66 George Mather Richards THE SALVATION ARMY LASSIE 1918 American $500 67 William (Billy) Addison Ireland A Real Patriot: Be a "School Sammy" 1918 American $500 68 Unknown Artist Girl Scouts Recruiting Campaign late 1910s - early 1920s American $500 17

69 David Urquhart Wilcox We ll Help You to Win the War, Dad, with War Savings Stamps nd American $500 70 Joseph Christian Leyendecker Weapons for Liberty - USA Bonds 1918 American $500 71 James Montgomery Flagg Help him to help U.S.! 1918 American $500 72 Jessie Willcox Smith Have you a Red Cross Service Flag? 1918 American $500 18

73 Alonzo E. Foringer The Greatest Mother in the World 1918 American $500 74 Alonzo E. Foringer Drawing of Miss Agnes Tait (the Model for Greatest Mother in the World) 1919 American $500 75 Geo Dorival Croix-Rouge Francaise 1916 French $500 76 Edith Emerson Sew for our Soldiers 1918 American $500 19

77 Harrison Fisher Have you Answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call? 1918 American $2,500 78 Robert H. Porteus Women! Help America's sons win the war - Buy U.S. Government Bonds 1917 American $500 79 Wladyslaw T. Benda You can help 1918 American $500 80 Leonebel Jacobs Women of America Work for Victory 1918 $500 20

81 Edward Penfield Every Girl Pulling For Victory 1918 American $500 82 Frederick G. Cooper Keep the Home Front Pledge 1944 American $500 83 Carolyn Moorehead Edmundson Enlist in a Proud Profession!...Join the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps 1943 American $500 84 Jon Whitcomb Be a cadet nurse : the girl with a future. 1944 American $500 21

85 John Joseph Floherty Jr., CPO USCGR Your duty ashore... his afloat : Spars 1944 American $500 22