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Wake up America! Civilization calls every man, woman and child!
Wake up America! Civilization calls every man, woman and child!
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Buy wall art of this image titled: Wake up America! Civilization calls every man, woman and child!, from the World War I Posters Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now!
- World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States.
- America--1910-1920.
- Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": James Montgomery Flagg's Call To Arms. After two and a half years of neutrality, the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. James Montgomery Flagg, who created some of the war's most indelible images, sounded the alarm for all citizens in this poster which was featured in "Wake Up, America" Day in New York City just thirteen days later on April 19th. Actress Mary Arthur was Flagg's model for Columbia who is a personification of America and Liberty. She is shown asleep, wearing patriotic stars and stripes and a Phrygian cap a symbol of freedom since Roman times. While she dozes against a fluted column, another visual reference to Western classical antiquity and civilization, sinister storm clouds gather in the background.
- Title from item.
- Promotional goal: U.S. J44. 1917.
- "Mayor's Committee, 50 East 42nd St."
- Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2002.
- Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May - November 2016.
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