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title: Hit the Bull's Eye! Is Your Name on This List?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hit-the-bulls-eye-is-your-name-on-this-list-1917/
description: A large target fills the sheet, its rings printed with columns of small type headed 'These are volunteers. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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[![Hit the Bull's Eye! Is Your Name on This List?, 1917 US poster: A large target fills the sheet, its rings printed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hit-the-bulls-eye-is-your-name-on-this-list-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hit-the-bulls-eye-is-your-name-on-this-list-1917.jpg)

# Hit the Bull's Eye! Is Your Name on This List?

A large target fills the sheet, its rings printed with columns of small type headed 'These are volunteers. Are you one of them?', grouped by Army, Navy, National Guard, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps and Naval Militia. Photographs of camps and drill sit in the corners above lists of recruiting stations. The tell of bandwagon is the list of named volunteers offered as proof that others have already enlisted, with a closing line urging the reader to put his own name down.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
HIT THE BULL'S EYE !

[photograph captions, credit 'Harry Leslie's Weekly' (as read) beneath each:]
MACHINE GUN PIT IN A RAILROAD
GETTING USED TO BARBED WIRE
INSPECTION
GETTING USED TO THE RIFLE

THESE ARE
VOLUNTEERS
ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?

U. S. ARMY
Week ending June 8th, 1917
NATIONAL GUARD,
N. Y.
Week ending June 8th, 1917
U. S. NAVY
Week ending June 8th, 1917
U. S. NAVAL RESERVE
Week ending June 8th, 1917
U. S. MARINE CORPS
Week ending June 8th, 1917
U. S. NAVAL MILITIA
Week ending June 8th, 1917
[columns of volunteers' names, surname and initials, in very small type: [illegible]]

BULLETIN No. 4

Make your mind up. Put your name down. Come across and see it through

NATIONAL GUARD RECRUITING STATIONS
QUARTERMASTER ENLISTED RESERVE
NAVAL MILITIA
ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS
NAVY RECRUITING STATIONS
U. S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE
MARINE RECRUITING STATIONS
[station addresses by borough and unit, Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken: [illegible] in very small type]

THE MAYOR'S COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL DEFENSE:--THE RECRUITING COMMITTEE, 298 Broadway, New York City

[initials at lower right: W.C.W.]
```

The name columns and station address lists are set in very small type and remain [illegible] even at the larger scan size, so they are summarised in brackets and not transcribed. The credit under the photographs and the week-ending dates are read with some uncertainty. Headings are given in reading order, not exact layout.

[← Wer Kriegsanleihe zeichnet, macht mir die schönste Geburtstagsgabe! (Whoever Subscribes to the War Loan Gives Me the Finest Birthday Present!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hindenburg-geburtstagsgabe-1917/) [Hit the Bull's Eye! Are You on This List? Get Your Name in the Circle: It's the Ring of Liberty →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hit-the-bulls-eye-ring-of-liberty-1917/)

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