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
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, New York
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Migration
- 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
Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, New York. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-203.
Text on the object
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.
