Navy, Uncle Sam is Calling You - Vintage WW1 Poster
Vintage WW1 US Navy Uncle Sam Recruitment Poster.
 
The Uncle Sam poster was conceived for a purpose; to recruit personnel for the first world war.
 
“Uncle Sam is Calling YOU.. ENLIST in the Navy!”
 
Uncle Sam mesmerising eyes and finger point directly at the viewer:
 
”I want you in the Navy and I want you now!”
 
This 1917 lithographic poster was Western Litho. Co. Los Angeles and was inspired from Alfred Leete’s 1914 image of Kitchener.  This was a time before radio and when the poster was uniquely compelling. Propaganda played a significant role in the war efforts of WW I and II and today the humble poster has been replaced with a formidable Twitter.