K.M. BARA (DATES UNKNOWN) YOU ARE WANTED BY U.S. ARMY. Circa 1918.
41 3/4x27 1/2 inches, 106x70 cm. Schmidt Litho., San Francisco.
Condition B: tears, repaired tears, creases and abrasions in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; loss in lower right corner and at right edge; tape on verso; pin holes in corners. Paper.
A rare World War I poster, this image was printed locally in San Francisco so it would have had a much smaller distribution than images meant for national exposure. Using the visual psychology of James Montgomery Flagg's I Want You (1917), this image depicts General Pershing. It was likely published following the release of the United States War Film "Pershing's Crusaders." Not in Rawls, not in Theofiles, not in Borkan.