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title: Czechoslovaks! Join Our Free Colors!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/czechoslovaks-join-our-free-colors-1918/
description: A crowd of helmeted silhouettes raises rifles and tattered banners, among them the Czech lion, the Moravian and Silesian eagles and the Slovak double
section: Collection
---

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[![Czechoslovaks! Join Our Free Colors!, 1918 US poster: A crowd of helmeted silhouettes raises rifles and tattered banners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/czechoslovaks-join-our-free-colors-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/czechoslovaks-join-our-free-colors-1918.jpg)

# Czechoslovaks! Join Our Free Colors!

A crowd of helmeted silhouettes raises rifles and tattered banners, among them the Czech lion, the Moravian and Silesian eagles and the Slovak double cross, flown beside the Stars and Stripes. The headline addresses Czechoslovaks directly, and the flags speak for the Allied cause they are asked to join, so the Czechoslovak standards borrow the standing of the American colours beside them.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CZECHOSLOVAKS! JOIN
OUR FREE COLORS!

[Banner lettering:] CSA, 2PS, 1PS, 16S [partly legible regimental markings]

WI P.&G.A. [monogram at right of the picture]

ISSUED BY CZECHOSLOVAK RECRUITING OFFICE, TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW YORK. DESIGNED AND PRINTED BY THE SCHOOL OF PRINTING AND GRAPHIC ARTS OF WENTWORTH INSTITUTE, BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. WENTWORTH POSTER NO. 1
```

The imprint at the foot is very small and faint; read from the 2000 px scan, with the exact wording of the last line uncertain.

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