Wednesday, January 27, 2016

More Enlist Posters

These are more from the collection of WWl posters in the Vet's Centre at Sunnybrook. I must get the name of the person who donated the collection.
Taking part in Signs, Signs. Click HERE to see more signs from around the world.

26 comments:

  1. Very interesting that people have saved these over the years!

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  2. These must be very hard to come by after all the intervening years. I notice none of them speak of the likely event the men will never come back home again.

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  3. These posters have been around for a very long time. A bit of history preserved.

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  4. These WW II posters are great slices of history from a time when countries went to war with a sense of justice. It was a more simple time of good and evil. Fine post of Signs, Signs.

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  5. They certainly do stand out. There's a veteran's home here- I wonder if they've got some of this there as well.

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  6. A wonderful collection; it makes sense to donate such things (or at least loan them) to Museums where many more people can learn from them.

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  7. Powerful incentives, I'd say, especially considering the age.

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  8. Very cool. I like the Take up the sword of justice one!

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  9. Interesting to see. I particularly like the one on the bottom left with the "sword of justice".

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  10. I don't think I have seen a war enlistment poster that refers to 'Remember Belgium.'

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  11. They are real collectors items.

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  12. Beautifully preserved historical posters. Definite collectors items.

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  13. I'm glad some people keep old things. I wonder what kinds of artifacts will be on display from our generation? Old iphones and tablets?

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  14. Imagine all those young men seeing those posters and rushing excitedly to enlist.. horrific really.

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  15. Impressive voices from another era...

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  16. Calling by from the Signs meme, always interesting to see this sort of old memorabilia.

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  17. Posters were the way to get the word out in the days before radio, TV and internet.

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  18. We have the 'remember Belgium' one as a 'fridge magnet...

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  19. You know how I feel about the soldiers of WWI and especially the ones from Canada in Belgium because it was there that I stayed that week. Do you have a PC or a Mac. I have a wonderful CD up in a box of CD’s that I would love to send you with all photos of men and scenes from WWI. A Canadian and his wife made it, and it was on my computer at work. Now the I am retired and at home, all we have are Mac’s so I cannot see it. It needs a good home and I think it would love to go to your house. My email is:
    genier39atgmaildotcom. I dragged out that big box last night for some reason and it is full of old cd’s. I know that one has to be in there. genie

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