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Alfred Leete (artist, 1882-1933)
London Opinion "Your country needs you"
1914
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-3858 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-109369 (b&w film copy neg.)
LL/47587
London : Printed by the Victoria House Printing Co., Ltd., 1914.
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| "Posters appealing to recruits are to be seen on every hoarding, in most windows, in omnibuses, tramcars and commercial vans. The great base of Nelson's Column is covered with them. Their number and variety are remarkable. Everywhere Lord Kitchener sternly points a monstrously big finger, exclaiming 'I Want You'"
The Times (3 January 1915) cited in Peter Simkins (1988) Kitchener's army: the raising of the new armies, 1914-16 (Manchester University Press, 1988) p.122-123. |
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War - Military - First World War (1914-1918) - Propaganda
| "Posters appealing to recruits are to be seen on every hoarding, in most windows, in omnibuses, tramcars and commercial vans. The great base of Nelson's Column is covered with them. Their number and variety are remarkable. Everywhere Lord Kitchener sternly points a monstrously big finger, exclaiming 'I Want You'"
The Times (3 January 1915) cited in Peter Simkins (1988) Kitchener's army: the raising of the new armies, 1914-16 (Manchester University Press, 1988) p.122-123. |
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