Aug 03, 2016 - Sale 2421

Sale 2421 - Lot 134

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MICHAEL P. WHELAN (DATES UNKNOWN) MEN WANTED FOR THE ARMY. Circa 1910.
40 3/4x29 1/2 inches, 103 1/2x75 cm.
Condition B+: extensive airbrushing in margins; creases and abrasions in margins and image.
One in a series of evocative pre-World War I recruiting posters that unintentionally depicts a military way of life that would all but disappear with the onset of the First World War. Rawls p. 54, Theofiles 1, p. 16, Borkan p. 13.