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
- 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-28.
Text on the object
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.
