Fight World Famine; enroll in The Boys' Working Reserve
Baltimore, New York: Thomsen-Ellis Company.
Original poster mounted on linen. Color lithograph. Poster measures 27 3/4" x 18 3/4". Linen measures 28 1/2" x 19 1/2".
Homefront poster from World War I published by the US Employment Service and the Department of Labor. This vivid illustration depicts a boy holding a pitchfork, fighting off vultures circling overhead. The Boys' Working Reserve was a non-military civilian army organized by the Department of Labor in 1917. They recruited volunteer boys ages sixteen to twenty-one to help the wartime effort through agricultural, industrial, or other vocational work. In good condition, with wear to margins. Some horizontal cracks and folds to poster. Mounted on linen.
Language: English
Price: $750.00
Item #295761