Dublin Core
Title
Shall Uncle Sam's Navy Suffer...
Subject
WW1 Recruitment: Fire Fighting
Description
Title: Shall Uncle Sam's Navy Suffer Our Soldiers Going "Over There" on Our Transports to Sink? for Lack of Firemen. 7,000 Needed Now!
Annotation:
Posters such as "Shall Uncle Sam's Navy Suffer..." can be read in multiple ways giving off underlining meanings. A common technique was using two separate colors for the text.
For example:
“SHALL
OUR
TRANSPORTS
SINK?”
(red text)
The phrase is printed all in the color red, which provides the main point of the poster. The red words are also rather large in size when compared to the blue text; it is almost like reading through the lines or fine print in advertisements on television. The smaller blue text is a sentimental filler to justify the broad question. The color blue is also a calming color, which causes the reader to read the text with less urgency. Also reading the blue text alone does not make much sense; therefore proving it is of less importance. The color red is a more alarming and attention grasping color, which comes off as more of a demand to the reader. The sense of demand with the color red also signifies the importance of the red text rather than the blue text.
Annotation:
Posters such as "Shall Uncle Sam's Navy Suffer..." can be read in multiple ways giving off underlining meanings. A common technique was using two separate colors for the text.
For example:
“SHALL
OUR
TRANSPORTS
SINK?”
(red text)
The phrase is printed all in the color red, which provides the main point of the poster. The red words are also rather large in size when compared to the blue text; it is almost like reading through the lines or fine print in advertisements on television. The smaller blue text is a sentimental filler to justify the broad question. The color blue is also a calming color, which causes the reader to read the text with less urgency. Also reading the blue text alone does not make much sense; therefore proving it is of less importance. The color red is a more alarming and attention grasping color, which comes off as more of a demand to the reader. The sense of demand with the color red also signifies the importance of the red text rather than the blue text.
Creator
Unknown
Source
McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tulsa. 2933 E. 6th St. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-3123
Publisher
United States Printing and Lithograph Co.
United States Treasury Department
United States Treasury Department
Date
1917
Relation
WW1 firemen recruitment
Format
Poster
Language
American English
Type
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Identifier
Collection number: 1992.004.5.90
Coverage
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United States of America
United States of America
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Poster
Physical Dimensions
106.5 x 71.5 cm