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Visibility Zero
19" x 26" Framed Art Frame
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Wanted! More Navy Nurses
22" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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I Want You for the Navy
20" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Battle of Midway
20" x 28" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Vintage World War II - Liberty Shaking Hands with a Sailorby John Parrot/Stocktrek Images
30" x 41" Framed Art Frame
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Navy Recruiting Poster, 1909
12" x 15" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Don't Read American, History Make It!
12" x 14" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Kenyon Cox WWI Poster
21" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Serving a Wave in the Navy
21" x 29" Framed Photograph Frame
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I Want You
22" x 28" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Let's Hit 'Emby John Parrot/Stocktrek Images
30" x 40" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Waves Recruiting Poster
13" x 16" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Join the Navy
22" x 30" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Build for your Navy!
20" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Naval Aviation has a Place for Youby John Parrot/Stocktrek Images
30" x 41" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Find the Range of Your Patriotism
22" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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We're All in the Navy Now
12" x 15" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Team Sweeping the Seas
14" x 16" Framed Advertisement Frame
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George Hand Wright, 1914
15" x 13" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Lend Your Binoculars
21" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Sad Puppy Propoganda Poster, 1944
22" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Bring Him Home Sooner Join the Waves
25" x 31" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Navy Recruitment Poster
20" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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On the Same Team Enlist in the Waves
22" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Sailor Doesn't Have to Prove He's a Man
12" x 15" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Build for Your Navy
12" x 15" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Find the Range of Your Patriotism
22" x 28" Framed Advertisement Frame
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All Together, Enlist in the Navy
29" x 22" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Navy Recruiting Station
21" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Only the Navy Can Stop This
22" x 28" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Naval Service of Canada
29" x 22" Framed Advertisement Frame
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We'll Keep it Flying
23" x 27" Framed Advertisement Frame
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You Bite the Hand that Feeds You When You Waste Good Navy Chow
22" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Follow the Boys in Blue for Home and Country Enlist in the Navy
29" x 20" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Scuttlebutt Sam
22" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Young Men Now Being Accepted for Enlistment
22" x 29" Framed Advertisement Frame
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Framed Vintage Navy Art
Few things are more aggressively patriotic than the military. Throughout the course of history, supporting an individual’s country has always seemed to go hand – in – hand with supporting their military efforts, particularly during wartime, and this phenomenon has led to a whole host of advertising and public opinion campaigns to recruit, engage, and enlist the public on a variety of levels.
From an artistic standpoint, framed vintage navy posters provide an interesting insight into this phenomenon and create a fun, colorful lens through which to view the events of American military history.
One of the most fascinating early framed vintage navy arts is a piece entitled “Don’t Read American History, Make It.” It is titled thusly because of the inscription on this piece itself, which flanks the two central figures in the picture—a well – dressed young civilian man with a newspaper and an attractive, well – built sailor in Navy uniform. The two are set against a water-colored backdrop with Columbia, personification of the American spirit, in the background.
A framed vintage Navy poster titled “Follow the Flag” appeals to the sense of American patriotism. A rugged – looking, handsome Navy soldier brandishes the American flag on a sandy beach next to a message encouraging Americans to “follow the flag” by enlisting in the Navy. It even provides an address for the nearest recruiting station!
A similar theme is evident in “Uphold Our Honor,” which implies that the United States and its flag are only worth as much as their reputations abroad. It implores the viewer to help defend those reputations, and continue to keep the flag flying, by lending their aid to the war efforts in any manner possible.