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title: Major General George S. Gibbs, Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army Signal Corps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/major-general-george-s-gibbs-chief-signal-officer-1917-1919/
description: A montage poster centres a formal portrait of an Army general in uniform, ringed by some thirty small photographs of troops, signal and telephone work.
section: Collection
---

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# Major General George S. Gibbs, Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army Signal Corps

A montage poster centres a formal portrait of an Army general in uniform, ringed by some thirty small photographs of troops, signal and telephone work, ruined buildings, riverside views, parades and a long formation of soldiers. The authority of the central portrait is lent to the surrounding views of the Signal Corps' activities, which are presented without narrative argument.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
COBLENZ from FT. ASTERSTEIN [as read; panorama caption]

Major General George S. Gibbs, Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army Signal Corps [caption beneath central portrait, as read]

[caption beneath the panorama of massed troops: COMPOSITE BATTALION ... GERMANY, SEPT. 26TH 1919 (partly legible)]
[caption beneath the lowest panorama: [illegible]]
```

Only three captions are large enough to read, and the portrait caption and the dateline of the massed-troops panorama are read with some uncertainty; the other photographs carry no legible caption.

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