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title: 'Hit the Bull''s Eye! Are You on This List? Get Your Name in the Circle: It''s the Ring of Liberty'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hit-the-bulls-eye-ring-of-liberty-1917/
description: A target of concentric rings holds columns of printed names headed by service branches (Army, National Guard of New York, Navy, Naval Reserve.
section: Collection
---

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# Hit the Bull's Eye! Are You on This List? Get Your Name in the Circle: It's the Ring of Liberty

A target of concentric rings holds columns of printed names headed by service branches (Army, National Guard of New York, Navy, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps, Naval Militia), beneath an eagle and above photographs of marching and drilling men and lists of recruiting stations. The tell of bandwagon is the published roll itself: enlistment is presented as joining a visible, growing list of neighbours, with the viewer invited to put his own name in the circle.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HIT THE BULL'S EYE!

ARE YOU ON THIS LIST?
BULLETIN No. 5

ARMY
Week Ending, June 28th, 1917
NATIONAL GUARD, N.Y.
Week Ending, June 28th, 1917
NAVY
Week Ending, June 28th, 1917
NAVAL RESERVES
Week Ending, June 28th, 1917
U.S. MARINE CORPS
Week Ending, July 2nd, 1917
NAVAL MILITIA
Week Ending, June 28th, 1917
[columns of enlisted names (surname and initials): illegible]

GETTING A MACHINE GUN INTO ACTION ON THE BORDER
A NEW YORK CAVALRY REGIMENT BREAKING CAMP
CAVALRY CROSSING A PONTOON
BREAKFAST ON THE ROAD
[photograph credits in small italic, apparently from Leslie's Weekly: partly illegible]

GET YOUR NAME IN THE CIRCLE—
IT'S THE RING OF LIBERTY

NATIONAL GUARD RECRUITING STATIONS
[unit headings (Division Headquarter Troop, Signal Corps, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Sanitary Units, Infantry, Supply Train, Ammunition Train, Coast Artillery) with station addresses: mostly illegible]
ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS
[addresses: illegible]
NAVY RECRUITING STATIONS
[Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Jamaica, Yonkers addresses: illegible]
U.S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE
MARINE RECRUITING STATIONS
[addresses: illegible]

THE MAYOR'S COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL DEFENSE:—THE RECRUITING COMMITTEE, 280 Broadway, New York City
W.C.W.
```

The columns of names, the station addresses and the photograph credits are too small to read even in the larger scan and are marked as such. The street number in the imprint (280) and the bulletin number (5) are read from small print and are slightly uncertain. 'W.C.W.' at the lower right corner is read as initials.

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