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..... More