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TITLE:  Only the Navy can stop this / W.A. Rogers.

CALL NUMBER:  POS - WWI - US, no. 403 (C size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-4963 (color film copy transparency)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on reproduction.

SUMMARY:  Poster showing a florid German soldier, wearing pirate skull-and-crossbones and brandishing a bloody sword as he wades in a tide of women's and children's bodies.

MEDIUM:  1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 64 x 49 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1917]

CREATOR:

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist.

NOTES:

Printed by the U.S. Navy Publicity Bureau, N.Y.

The U.S. Navy Publicity Bureau gratefully acknowledges its indebtedness to the New York Herald for the reproduction of Mr. Rogers' cartoon.

Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

SUBJECTS:

United States.--Navy--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920.
World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States.
World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States.
Soldiers--German--1910-1920.
Skull & crossbones--1910-1920.
Daggers & swords--1910-1920.

FORMAT:

War posters American 1910-1920.
Lithographs Color 1910-1920.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g04963 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04963

CONTROL #:  2001700444


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