Image:Unclesamwantyou.jpg

• Description : Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
• Painted by : James Montgomery Flagg in 1916-1917

TITLE: I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station / James Montgomery Flagg.

CALL NUMBER: POS - US .F63, no. 9 (C size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-3859 (color film copy transparency of duplicate copy)

LC-USZC2-564 (color film copy slide)

LC-USZC4-594 (color film copy transparency)

LC-USZ62-8278 (b&w film copy neg.)

No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office.

SUMMARY: Uncle Sam, half-length portrait, pointing at viewer as part of the United States government effort to recruit soldiers during World War I.

MEDIUM: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1917.

CREATOR: Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960, artist.

NOTES: Copyright by Leslie-Judge Co., N.Y.

Promotional goal: U.S. J22. 1917.

Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 43

SUBJECTS:

United States. Army--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920.

FORMAT:

War posters American 1910-1920. Lithographs Color 1910-1920.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency of duplicate copy) cph 3g03859 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03859 (color film copy slide) cph 3b48465 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48465 (color film copy transparency) cph 3b52086 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52086 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a10889 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a10889

CARD #: 96507165

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