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title: Apprentice Seaman Training
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/apprentice-seaman-training-1941/
description: 'Recruiting poster for the U.S. Maritime Service: a white merchant steamer under a pink sunset sky, with the headline ''Apprentice Seaman Training'''
section: Collection
---

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[![Apprentice Seaman Training, 1941 US poster: Recruiting poster for the U.S. Maritime Service](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/apprentice-seaman-training-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/apprentice-seaman-training-1941.jpg)

# Apprentice Seaman Training

Recruiting poster for the U.S. Maritime Service: a white merchant steamer under a pink sunset sky, with the headline 'Apprentice Seaman Training' and an offer of a career in the American Merchant Marine for young men. The appeal rests on a calm, heroic ship image and the word 'career', with no danger shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Apprentice Seaman
Training
U. S. MARITIME SERVICE
ENROLLING OFFICE
1311 H STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
PREPARES YOUNG MEN 18 TO [35, pasted slip over printed number] FOR A
CAREER in the AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE
apply to UNITED STATES MARITIME SERVICE, Washington, D. C.
1311 H Street, N.W. [handwritten]
[signature: JOHN D. WISINSKY]
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941]
```

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