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title: Hit the Bull's Eye! These Are Volunteers. Are You One of Them?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hit-the-bulls-eye-these-are-volunteers-1917/
description: A target of concentric orange and blue rings sits beneath an eagle, with columns of small type inside the rings listing the services to join
section: Collection
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# Hit the Bull's Eye! These Are Volunteers. Are You One of Them?

A target of concentric orange and blue rings sits beneath an eagle, with columns of small type inside the rings listing the services to join and photographs of camp and drill scenes at the corners. The title asks the reader to be 'one of them', presenting enlistment as a fact already shared by many volunteers, and closes with directions to named recruiting stations.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HIT THE BULL'S EYE !

[photo, upper left: MACHINE GUN PIT IN A RAILROAD (Photo by Leslie's Weekly)]
[photo, upper right: GETTING USED TO BARBED WIRE (Photo by Leslie's Weekly)]

THESE ARE
VOLUNTEERS
ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?

U. S. ARMY
Week ending June 9th, 1917
NATIONAL GUARD, N. Y.
Week ending June 9th, 1917
U. S. NAVY
Week ending June 9th, 1917
U. S. NAVAL RESERVE
Week ending June 9th, 1917
U. S. MARINE CORPS
Week ending June 9th, 1917
U. S. NAVAL MILITIA
Week ending June 9th, 1917
[columns of volunteers' names (surname, initials) inside the target, too small to read]

BULLETIN No. 6

[photo, lower left: INSPECTION (Photo by Leslie's Weekly)]
[photo, lower right: GETTING USED TO THE RIFLE (Photo by Leslie's Weekly)]

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

NATIONAL GUARD RECRUITING STATIONS
DIVISION HEADQUARTER TROOP
SIGNAL CORPS
CAVALRY
FIELD ARTILLERY
SANITARY UNITS
INFANTRY
SUPPLY TRAIN
AMMUNITION TRAIN
COAST ARTILLERY
ENGINEERS
QUARTERMASTER ENLISTED RESERVE
NAVAL MILITIA
HEADQUARTERS
RECRUITING STATIONS
ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS
EAST SIDE
WEST SIDE
BRONX
JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN
BROOKLYN
NAVY RECRUITING STATIONS
MANHATTAN
BRONX
BROOKLYN
JAMAICA
YONKERS
U. S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE
MARINE RECRUITING STATIONS
MANHATTAN
[street addresses under each heading, too small to read]

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

W.C.W.
```

Name columns and station street addresses are set in very small type and are not transcribed; headings are transcribed as printed. The digit of the 'June 9th' dates is uncertain at this resolution. 'W.C.W.' at lower right is a small initials mark, probably the artist's or designer's.

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