Shall Uncle Sam's Navy Suffer Our Soldiers Going "Over There" on Our Transports to Sink? for Lack of Firemen. 7,000 Needed Now!
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Nationalism can be seen throughout the majority of the war posters. The way in which many of their headlines are worded creates the feeling that “buying a bond” is the citizens’ duty and such an act should come natural; it is all rather manipulative... but that’s advertising. There is also a lot of emphasis on immediate action and demands by using words such as “now”, “today”, “SAVE”, and “come on!” This rush on time was seen throughout the accounts in A Testament of Youth.
In the poster that I chose there is a bit of color play. You could read it two ways really.
- Shall Uncle Sam's Navy Suffer Our Soldiers Going "Over There" on Our Transports to Sink? for Lack of Firemen. 7,000 Needed Now!
- Shall Our Transports Sink? (red print only)
The purpose of this poster was to lure men into enlisting in the navy. After analyzing the word/color play, it seems as if the navy belongs to Uncle Sam and the transports belong to us [our transports], I’m assuming the US citizens. I find this interesting and feel it needs further contextual investigation.
Ashley Brown