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
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Signal Corps
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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
U.S. Army Signal Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-24.
Text on the object
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.
