I want you for the Navy

Place North & Central America: United States of America
Accession Number ARTV00749
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 105 x 65 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description lithograph on paper
Maker Christy, Howard Chandler
[S.L. : S.N.], 1917 (BOSTON : FORBES)
Place made United States of America
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

First World War American recruitment poster for the Navy, featuring a girl dressed in a sailor's uniform. Howard Chandler Christy (1873 –1952) was an American artist and illustrator famous for the "Christy Girl", similar to a "Gibson Girl".