Enlisting a Nationhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1475912024-03-28T17:01:53Z2024-03-28T17:01:53ZPhotographs from Enlisting a Nationhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1506392017-04-18T21:38:57Z2015-10-15T00:00:00ZPhotographs from Enlisting a Nation
Photographs of the posters from the Enlisting a Nation exhibit. Well‐known illustrators of the time were engaged to create pictures that would be displayed across the
nation urging recruitment, purchase of war bonds or saving food to help in the war effort. These
beautiful, yet idealized, visions of what America was supposed to represent, successfully manipulated
the thoughts and emotions of the American public between April 1917 and November 1918, with
thousands of designs that would be emblazoned on walls, streetcars and in window displays. Messages
on the placards implied patriotism for country and rallied support from the populace. Backing for the
war was quickly expressed by most within the general population.
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