The most famous recruitment advert from the First World War was Lord Kitchener's 'Your Country Needs You' poster. The field marshal became Secretary of War almost as soon as hostilities were ...

The war and sport connection made by John Singer Sargent is also made explicit in the recruitment posters shown here. Men of Millwall are being urged to join up in a team game and to represent ...

The armistice that came into effect at 11 a.m. local time on Nov. 11, 1918, silenced the guns of World War I, ending one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history.

The National Archives boasts one of the largest collections of U.S. military posters, between 3,000 and 3,500, with the vast majority aimed at recruitment during World War I and II, explained ...

A RARE collection of almost every original First World War recruitment poster has been discovered – after spending 30 years hidden in an attic. By Dion Dassanayake. 19:44, Thu, Feb 27, 2014.

U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center art curator Jim McNally discussed the design, objectives, and artists of World War I posters. With goals ranging from recruitment to fundraising to food ...

World War I, the Great War, the war to end all wars, was not the war to end all propaganda. That may be the most striking lesson offered by “Over There! Posters From World War I,” which runs ...

It is the definitive piece of First World War propaganda - but the once-ubiquitous portrait of Lord Kitchener, drawn for the London Opinion magazine in 1914 by Alfred Leete, was itself a work of ...

Posters From World War I” opens July 26 and continues until June 14, 2015. More to Read L.A. 2026 World Cup committee hosts art contest to select official poster design ...

The posters cover a vast array of topics, including recruitment, women working and war contributions A collection of 165 posters, which lay undiscovered for decades, reveal government messages to ...

WW1 in pictures: Poster women of World War One. ... December 1914 To encourage recruitment, women were initially depicted as helpless victims of German aggression in need of male protection.