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Travel? Adventure? Join the Marines Poster
by James M. Flagg
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Travel? Adventure? Join the Marines poster by James M. Flagg. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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James Montgomery Flagg (1877 – 1960) was an American artist and illustrator. He is most famous for his war effort posters but he also work for... more
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James Montgomery Flagg (1877 – 1960) was an American artist and illustrator. He is most famous for his war effort posters but he also work for magazines, did cartoons, and even paintings. Flagg's recruiting poster Travel? Adventure? Join the Marines of 1917, is a humorous image that defines jaunty. The poster shows a young Marine enlisted man holding his .03 Springfield rifle at port arms which riding backwards on a bucking leopard. The acrobatic smiling Marine is shown wrapping his feet around the belly of the best while somehow remaining posture perfect. The poster boy Marine wears a uniform well suited for the tropics, a campaign hat with the globe and anchor, ca anvas cartridge belt around his slim waist and leggings of the same material secured by a strap looped just in front of the boot heel. Just behind this surreal scene, which would be the envy of any rodeo rider, palm fronds are pictured swaying on a warm tropical breeze. Affairs were'nt so idyllic in the Caribbean Basin th...
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