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
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Mayor's Committee on National Defense, New York
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- 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
Mayor's Committee on National Defense, New York. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-39.
Text on the object
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.
