2285 New Yorkers Volunteered in One Week. Is Your Name on This List?
A broadsheet poster prints several columns of names under the heading '2285 New Yorkers Volunteered in One Week,' grouped by Army, National Guard Enlistment, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps and Navy, framed by photographs and a panel of recruiting-station addresses. The tell of the bandwagon is the list itself: the reader is asked to find, or be missing from, a roll of neighbours who have already enlisted.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Recruiting Committee (New York)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Recruiting Committee, New York. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-32.
Text on the object
2285 New Yorkers Volunteered In One Week. (Bulletin No. 2) Is Your Name On This List? ARMY Week Ending June 9, 1917 [roster of names in columns, surname and initials: not transcribed] NATIONAL GUARD ENLISTMENT [sub-headings by unit, among them: First Battalion, Signal Corps; First Ambulance Company; First Cavalry; Second Ambulance Company; First Field Artillery; Third Ambulance Company; Eighth Coast Defense Command; Fourth Ambulance Company; Other Companies; First Infantry; Second Infantry; Third Infantry; Third Field Hospital; roster of names: not transcribed] NAVAL RESERVE [week-ending line and roster of names: not transcribed] MARINE CORPS Week ending June 9, 1917 [roster of names: not transcribed] NAVY Week ending June 2, 1917 [roster of names: not transcribed] SECOND BATTALION NAVAL MILITIA OF NEW YORK [date range line and roster of names: not transcribed] [left panel, upper picture, caption:] LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES TRAINING CAMPS The value of a soldier is measured by his ability to shoot straight. Men who can't shoot have little business on the firing line. While hits are the most desired results in shooting, soldiers consider it a virtue to be able to shoot close enough to the enemy to make him nervous, so that either he seeks cover or his bullets go wild. [left panel, boxed:] YOU CAN ENLIST HERE RECRUITING STATIONS NATIONAL GUARD. [list of units (Division Headquarters Troop, Signal Corps, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Sanitary Units, Infantry, Supply Train, Ammunition Train, Coast Artillery, Engineers, Quartermaster Enlisted Reserve) and NAVAL MILITIA, each with armory addresses: addresses too small to read reliably, not transcribed] [left panel, lower picture, caption:] THAT BOMBPROOF SMILE These are three officers of the Gordon Highlanders upon whose [illegible] seems to rest lightly. They are seated at the mouth of a dug-out, which is shown at the right of the picture. There are more smiles in the trenches now since America joined the ranks of the Allies, for the men know that when Columbia sounds her battle-cry her sons will answer as they always have when freedom called. [right panel, upper picture, caption:] WHERE PERSHING WILL SOON BE This photograph shows the British Commander, Sir Douglas Haig, and General Joffre consulting with Lloyd George. Nothing long such conferences will not be complete without the presence of our allies dear of America beside the French and British uniforms. France has long looked toward America for aid in driving out the invader, and there will be a royal welcome to the first troops that carry the Stars and Stripes under the Arch of Triumph at Paris. [right panel, boxed:] YOU CAN ENLIST HERE RECRUITING STATIONS ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS East Side / West Side / Jersey City and Hoboken / Brooklyn NAVY RECRUITING STATIONS Manhattan / Bronx / Brooklyn / Jamaica / Yonkers U. S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE MARINE RECRUITING STATIONS Manhattan [street addresses under each heading: too small to read reliably, not transcribed] [right panel, lower picture, caption:] SIGNALLING BY DAYLIGHT Handily set up in the middle of a railroad track, this daylight lamp makes as good a messenger as the telegraph wire and stands less chance of being destroyed. It takes a keen eye and quick wit and is a wonderful training. Men who have served in the Signal Corps need never worry about being "equipped for the battle of life." [picture credit lines, very small: International Film Service; Official British Press Bureau] THE MAYOR'S COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL DEFENSE:--THE RECRUITING COMMITTEE, 50 East 42nd Street, New York
Truncated by design: the several thousand-name roster columns and the street addresses in the two 'You can enlist here' panels are not transcribed (marked in square brackets). Headings, week-ending lines, picture captions and the imprint are read from the 2000 px scan; the small captions are at the limit of legibility, so a few words are marked [illegible] or may be misread (the caption 'Where Pershing will soon be' has a garbled clause).
