Eastern District Y.M.C.A. Wednesday Night Sep. 26, 23d Infantry Band and Speakers

A text-only announcement for an evening meeting at the Eastern District Y.M.C.A. lists a military band, two singers from the National Patriotic Song Committee, a chairman and three speakers, one 'lately returned from Europe'. The sheet has no argument of its own; it draws its pull from the named performers and speakers and their stated affiliations.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Testimonial

Date: 1917
Period: First World War
Made by: Eastern District Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn, under the Recruiting Committee of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: NGO
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
Eastern District Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn, under the Recruiting Committee of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-254.

Text on the object

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

EASTERN
DISTRICT Y.M.C.A.
179 Marcy Avenue

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SEP. 26
at 8 O'clock

23D INFANTRY BAND
BLANCHE BELLAIRE, Soprano
National Patriotic Song Committee
WM. DENHAM TUCKER, Baritone
National Patriotic Song Committee
Chairman
LEWIS H. POUNDS
Speakers
HON. S. HARRISON WHITE
Judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado
LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAINE
Lately Returned from Europe
DR. ISAAC J. LANSING
Courtesy National Security League

Auspices of the Recruiting Committee of Mayor's Committee
on National Defense

A small printer's mark appears at lower right and is not transcribed.