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
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- The Mayor's Committee on National Defense; The Recruiting Committee, New York City
- 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
The Mayor's Committee on National Defense; The Recruiting Committee, New York City. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-40.
Text on the object
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.
