United-Cigar-Wake-Up-America.jpeg

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Description

English: Photomechanical print from a poster titled "WAKE UP AMERICA!" showing the U.S. Navy recruiting station at the United Cigar Stores Company in the Flatiron Building in New York City on 1917-04-19, the day of the "Wake up America" parade. The handwritten inscription in the lower left reads "Wake up America Day Parade Apr. 19, 1917 / United Cigar Stores Co. Flatiron Bldg. New York City". The store's cowcatcher was transformed into a mock fort for the parade. The Library of Congress archival photograph of the poster was cropped to include only the contained photograph.

Date

1917

Source

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WWI Posters, LC-USZC4-3350 (color film copy transparency),

uncompressed archival TIFF version (5 MB)

Author

Irving Underhill (1872–1960)
Alternative names	Irving S. Underhill
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	1872	1960
Work location	U.S.
Authority file	: Q6074838 VIAF : 261694867 ISNI : 0000000381834906 ULAN : 500037114 LCCN : n99284541 RKD : 404058 WorldCat

Permission
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No known restrictions on publication. For information see World War I Posters .

The author died in 1960, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3g03350 .
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

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1917