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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! JOIN THE MARINES. 1915.
40x29 1/2 inches. Condition A-: repaired tears in margins; restoration in lower left corner. Sexy, taunting, challenging, and daring, this dark-haired beauty in a blue marines uniform is posed in front of a battalion of khaki-clad marines; lettering in blue and red. An early recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered the war, which played upon "the confusion of genders [that] provided posters with provocative images like this ... whose purpose is the seduction of men into service" (Paret p.64). Rawls p. 249, Paret 89, Theofiles 66, American 64.
